Example sentences of "be [vb pp] over the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these , PC-Hornet , which has been developed over the past 10 years , will be shown for the first time by McDonnell Douglas . |
| 2 | The engine has been developed over the past four years by engineers and designers at Vauxhall 's parent plant , General Motors . |
| 3 | In a way , the show marks the next step on from the post-industrial carnivals that have been developed over the past ten years . |
| 4 | Variations in pension cost , which are identified as a result of actuarial valuations , are amortised over the average expected remaining working lives of employees . |
| 5 | The constitution of the Federation , which has been formulated over the past two years , was agreed with twelve countries accepted into membership . |
| 6 | The report claims three hundred and sixty five cases of AIDS have been reported over the past three months ; it 's the highest quarterly rate yet . |
| 7 | All the hospitals in Southampton have been rebuilt over the past few years . |
| 8 | The firm 's market share in Italy 's public sector has been eroded over the past three years and he says Olivetti , unlike its principal European competitors ( Siemens-Nixdorf of Germany and Bull of France ) , has enjoyed no particular privileges in its home market . |
| 9 | It was suggested that too much VAT had been claimed over the previous two years . |
| 10 | It was suggested that too much VAT had been claimed over the previous two years . |
| 11 | Trounson says that 13 frozen embryos have been transferred over the past two years , but until this week none has been successful . |
| 12 | We must pay tribute also to the United Nations , which has been revitalised over the past 12 months and has started to play its part in trying to unravel and resolve the problems in Yugoslavia . |
| 13 | There have been a number of studies of poverty in the UK that have been made over the past twenty-five years that have consistently indicated that a substantial minority of people may experience serious relative deprivation . |
| 14 | Next up the quality ladder is desktop publishing of which much has been written over the past two years . |
| 15 | Over 100 different tests are applied over the whole raw material range . |
| 16 | Now operated within Effect Products , this business is still considerable , with new opportunities arising in markets in the developing world , but the product range for sales in Western Europe has been broadened over the past 10 years or so with the development of more specialized products for use , for example , in carbonless copying paper . |
| 17 | This month 's Top Ten features the best utilities we 're reviewed over the past 18 months . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , but how many of these wonderfully high-paid jobs have you been offered over the past eighteen months ? ’ |
| 19 | It is particularly keen to help the manufacturing sector , which has been decimated over the past 12 years . |
| 20 | There are frequent reports , some of them in the Soviet press , of bungling and inefficiency in both exploration and production , yet expert opinion on what the Soviet oil industry can achieve has been shown over the past few years to be wildly wrong . |
| 21 | A large proportion of these young people should have received help long before they take to such dangerous crime but nearly all the preventative services have been closed over the past five years . |
| 22 | Several other infinitely more damaging conversations involving him have been taped over the past few weeks . |
| 23 | The team has been restructured over the past few months . |
| 24 | Thousands of pounds have been raised over the past few months by the local community and by Wirral council colleagues of the boys ' father Bob , who works in the highways and building services department . |
| 25 | The problem has been augmented over the past two years by the US recession , which brought about more company failures , and the savings and loan debacle . |
| 26 | They stated that 27,000 million Saudi riyals ( approximately US$8,000 million ) had been spent over the previous seven years to improve facilities for pilgrims . |
| 27 | This robustness has been proved over the past few years even through the economic downturns of the early 1980s . |
| 28 | Of this total up to SDR39,240,000 ( $53,000,000 ) could be drawn over the following 19 months to support the government 's 1991-92 economic austerity programme . |
| 29 | Since new SVQs are being accredited almost on a monthly basis , SCOTVEC is introducing ‘ SVQ Accreditation Update ’ which will list all accredited SVQs and those expected to be approved over the ensuing few months . |
| 30 | Under the deal , the implementing contract for which was to be negotiated over the following 12 months , enriched uranium reportedly totalling 500 tonnes would be sold by Russia for hard currency needed to complete urgent repairs to its nuclear power plants . |