Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] over [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Invesco French Growth which , as the name suggests , invests solely in France , was the top performer over one year and has clearly benefited from more favourable market conditions in France compared with most of the other European countries . |
| 2 | In his manifest ascendancy over millions of Indians , he challenged their monopoly of the force of personality . |
| 3 | Greg , from Aylesbury is an ultra marathon runner … the British Champion over one hundred kilometres … or 62 miles . |
| 4 | Instead they have imaginatively reconstructed the imaginary town 's historical development over eight centuries : from the time that the first stone buildings would have been erected , through the period of canal-building and land-reclamation in the seventeenth century , to the twentieth century with its emphasis on the development of ‘ a comfortable urbanity ’ , exemplified by turn-of-the-century villas . |
| 5 | What we can say , though , is that juvenile crime and street violence have been characteristics of British society over hundreds of years , rather than being indicative of a contemporary moral and social disintegration . |
| 6 | At the start of this year over one and a half million council-built homes had been sold to tenants under a scheme which let tenants of more than two years buy their homes at a discount . |
| 7 | The Commission has approximately ECU25 million at its disposal for this purpose over 1990–95 . |
| 8 | Some courses are also offered on a part-time basis over 24–36 months . |
| 9 | Those for the MSc , MBA , LLM , MMus , MEd and MTH are generally of 12 months full-time duration ( and may be offered on a part-time basis over 24–36 months ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Why should there be so much hassle over one position when there are so many other good players fighting for places in the centre and back row ? |
| 11 | She could , however , have taken this point one step further , for , given that the central organising theme of the Sexual Offences Act was the re-establishment , albeit in a modified form , of male control over one area of female sexuality and thereby indirectly over female sexuality as a whole , it would seem highly likely that the choice of prostitutes as ‘ folk devils ’ occurred in large part in response to this growing liberation . |
| 12 | However , looking at individual funds , only a few have delivered above average performance over one and five years . |
| 13 | Between the first and the second DPQ over three-quarters of the participants either reduced to ( 72 per cent ) or remained at ( six per cent ) a medium or low level of risk . |
| 14 | I have recently returned from the tropical rainforests of South East Asia where the almost negligible cutting down of trees by ‘ native peoples ’ caused no real destruction over millions of years . |
| 15 | But the creation of the European Community over 30 years ago was inspired by the idea of no more war in Europe . |
| 16 | All the training involves trainee participation with courses lasting from three hours over one day to twelve hours over two days , and was locally based on farms and horticultural holdings . |
| 17 | Within three years over one third had found new owners or uses |
| 18 | Spoon your chosen filling over one half of the omelette , fold over and slide out gently . |
| 19 | Tie bandolier of white stuff over one shoulder and under opposite write word LIBERTY in Indian ink . |
| 20 | Usually cited as the first of its kind , the Amalgamated Society of Engineers comprised into a national organisation over one hundred unions or branches of union , the whole administered by a central executive . |
| 21 | How much of the present landscape is a result of human interference over thousands of years and how much is a result of natural processes of soil degradation in an extreme , oceanic environment ? |
| 22 | She wore a large dressing over one eye and her hands were daubed with gentian violet , but she insisted that she had been lucky . |
| 23 | My mother wore a black suit with padded shoulders , a little hat over one eye , rolling shoulder curls , a hint of black veil . |
| 24 | Major straightening of the Mississippi in the 1930s , largely for navigation purposes , is still creating problems for its present-day managers over hundreds of miles . |
| 25 | Women wear a wide red woollen skirt with multi-coloured vertical stripes and a band round the hem , a white blouse with wide elbow-length sleeves , a red embroidered waistcoat , and a small red woollen cloak over one or both shoulders . |
| 26 | His words are as familiar to Soviet schoolchilden as Cromwell 's ‘ In the name of God , go ’ to the Long Parliament over 250 years earlier , is to us . |
| 27 | Together the SR and GR effects should lead to a time delay variation of amplitude of about 4 ms over one orbit . |
| 28 | The winters there are long , hard and cruel ; two-thirds of the entire territory are grounded on ‘ permafrost ’ — permanently frozen earth , in many areas over one kilometre deep ; eastern Siberia contains the northern hemisphere 's ‘ pole of cold ’ , at Oimyakon , several degrees south of the Arctic Circle where temperatures in this inhabited settlement sometimes sink to — 70°C ; major rivers , seas and ports are frozen solid for most of the year , and growing conditions are so disadvantageous as to create one of the most fragile ecological systems in the world . |
| 29 | ’ I do not accept those criticisms.I think the conservators have done a very good job over one hundred and ten years . |
| 30 | Until these data are available , severely poisoned adults should be given 150–200 g through a nasogastric tube over 4–8 hours with the aims of achieving a maximum reduction in elimination half life and an improvement in the clinical state . |