Example sentences of "[adv] over [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Channel shares had varied somewhat over the years , quite apart from the changes caused by the introduction of BBC2 and Channel 4 ( Table 6.18 ) . |
| 2 | This attitude has changed somewhat over the years and there are now fewer homes than there used to be . |
| 3 | It 's perhaps improved somewhat over the years . |
| 4 | Mr Wood has learned enough over the years about badgers to be able to get in as close as just a foot or two . |
| 5 | Mr Deputy Speaker I 'm just about to come on the South Wales police but I will answer the point directly , er I and my honourable friend the parliamentary secretary are always willing to discuss with local government , matters relating to local government finance and we have done so over the months leading up to this settlement and my honourable and right honourable friends in the Home Office are always willing to discuss matters on the police er where they are important and warrant a ministerial meeting and that again has happened recently with the Home Office min minister discussing this very issue . |
| 6 | Both Halsey and Goldthorpe ( 21 ) , ( 22 ) , separately have found that the privileged continue to be so over the years when we have claimed that educational opportunity was available to the able child . |
| 7 | When I first began designing for double jacquard , which was quite a long time ago , there was little or no information available and not many knitters used the technique , so over the years I learnt the hard way by trial and error . |
| 8 | We 've tried all sorts of things erm and we 've erm sort of erm included erm Lesley 's Elmore Support Team has come and talked to him and tried to support him as well , so over the years we have done all sorts of things to try and support him , as I have to try and support all sorts of people . |
| 9 | Many will recall the church as it was , for there is no indication that it changed greatly over the years . |
| 10 | Certainly the productivity of the coal industry has improved greatly over the years , but further improvement is still required . |
| 11 | Central government , then , exercises considerable power , not only over the services it administers directly , such as social security , but also over those that are the local authorities ' own concern , such as education or personal social services . |
| 12 | Instead of being nearly square uprights they have a length almost half as great again as their height , which is nearly two feet ; the triglyphs apparently stood only over the columns , not between . |
| 13 | Such sermons , Cobbett concludes , have power only over the minds of the many miserable . |
| 14 | At the end of the day I had the satisfaction of presiding in the Lords debate on the Bill and noting the very last words in Barbara Castle 's account of the affair : ‘ Now , unexpectedly , I have received a letter of ‘ appreciation ’ from Harold for the ‘ hard work and long hours ’ I have put in over the consultants ' ‘ package ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ We pulled out all the stops to produce extra stock needed to meet the charter flights , so the paint could be flown in over the weekends . ’ |
| 16 | But with Karen such frankness was out of the question , and without her cooperation , getting rid of Dennis looked like just another of the many pipe-dreams I had indulged in over the years . |
| 17 | You , you say you noticed more and more machinery being brought in over the years ? |
| 18 | You know this sort of thing and all British wildlife has got its own little characters , every species is different er and you know thousands of animals we 've taken in over the years we 've just learnt different things about different animals that suit different animals . |
| 19 | As the smoke cleared and the dust settled , two fighter planes came in over the fields and circled the remains of the barn . |
| 20 | The path was ankle-deep in weeds , and to either side the overgrown rhododendrons , heavy with flowers , crowded in over the mosses and ferns of a mild damp climate . |
| 21 | It was still warm during the day , and the sun came in over the trees of the forest outside the camp . |
| 22 | On the third morning he saw Zora-djevojka , the Dawn Maiden , the Sun 's beloved daughter , coming swiftly over the waves in her silver boat . |
| 23 | If he heard anything he would not dream of doing anything about it but would go on gazing indifferently over the heads of his sheep . |
| 24 | The club paid him the princely sum of £8 , a fee that has not risen much over the years according to some of Celtic 's more dour stars . |
| 25 | The huge dishes at the BT ground stations do n't seem to change much over the years . |
| 26 | Seaton has not grown much over the years due to lack of building land , though there are now new terrace-type cottages in the centre of the village . |
| 27 | He had taught her much over the years . |
| 28 | Has chemistry changed very much over the years , Peter ? |
| 29 | In the introduction to its latest guidelines the GMC states that the preregistration year should be ‘ an enjoyable and profitable experience ’ and calls on the universities to ‘ exercise greater control than hitherto over the duties undertaken … , the supervision of house officers , the general education provided and the monitoring of house officers ’ progress . ’ |
| 30 | ( Do this by pencilling over the side of the paper , turning it over on to the icing and then pressing gently over the lines again . ) |