Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the cost of physical imports has exceeded the value of exported products for over a century . |
| 2 | Yes I suppose it 's true that for somebody like me I 've been involved in quite a lot of different groups over over the years and the quarry men 's support group is it 's difficult to put in words really er exactly how it 's erm you know I think it 's very easy f for groups to become sort of s set really and er well I 've always wanted it to involve everybody and I think it does that in a way it sort of er it 's quite special to all of us in in a funny sort of way it 's er you know we feel quite committed . |
| 3 | ‘ Because that 's exactly what Charlie would n't want them to do : start anything without a clear directive from over here . |
| 4 | The snowdrops at Painswick have been a popular attraction for over a century . |
| 5 | In June the Interior Ministry reorganized and took direct control of over one-third of the main departments . |
| 6 | Additional benefits of tree-lined streams , in reducing the effects of nitrates and phosphates in the water and in shading out the choking growth of summer weed in a river bed , which may otherwise necessitate further expensive dredging , have been recognized by Dutch and German scientists for over a decade . |
| 7 | Overall , the pound depreciated by 6.25 per cent in real terms in the year ended March 1990 , but recovered in the wake of the Gulf crisis , hitting a nine-year high against the US dollar on Aug. 23 ( £1=$1.9515 ) , and rising against the West German currency to over DM3 . |
| 8 | By the end of June Bulgaria had stopped repaying both the capital and interest on its hard-currency foreign debt of over US$10,000 million [ see also p. 37744 ] . |
| 9 | Well look the first thing to occur and immediately comes to mind is that if I was going to be really evil I would I 'd just stick it away in a quite drawer or wait until the day , and I 'd turn up when she was breaking the the bottle , the empty bottle over over the the skip , we 'd do a picture of her actually littering up the countryside . |
| 10 | Jonathan Mann , director of the World Health Organization 's global programme on AIDS , which he founded in 1986 and which had an annual budget of over US$100,000,000 , announced his resignation on March 16 , citing disagreements with the WHO Director-General , Hiroshi Nakajima . |
| 11 | You know what I mean : people expect you to talk about dark strangers from over the water and golden fortunes coming their way . |
| 12 | After all , if you can borrow ( or exchange your existing UK mortgage where you are paying rates at the highest level in real terms for over a century ) for a Swiss franc mortgage at around 9.5 per cent , a mark mortgage at just under 10 per cent , an Ecu mortgage ( Ecu is the European currency unit which is made up of a ‘ basket ’ of 10 currencies including sterling ) at about 10 per cent or a Japanese yen mortgage at just under 8 per cent , why not do so ? |
| 13 | In 1979 , the World Bank published a glowing report , Romania : Industrialization under Socialist Planning , which claimed , on the basis of official Romanian government figures , that in the quarter century between 1950 and 1975 , the Romanian economy had grown at an average compound annual rate of over 9% . |
| 14 | If the labour supply is refined further to the level of labour input , which takes account of the length of the working year , then zero growth is recorded from 1951 ; and from the mid 1960s it turned into an actual decline at over 1 per cent per annum . |
| 15 | Working from the artists ' chance selections , Heinrichsmeyer created geometric paintings resembling those of the De Stijl group , which he in turn transposed onto the planar surfaces of over one hundred cubic armchairs . |
| 16 | ‘ What greenhorns you are , ’ said Glenda Grower , shaking her great mass of long , auburn hair from over her eyes . |
| 17 | DMB and B Result , which had a link with a big international agency , went bust recently with a net deficit of over IR£0.5m . |
| 18 | After about forty minutes Van Gelder moved up into the bows with a portable six-inch searchlight which , on such a clear night , had an effective range of over a mile . |
| 19 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 20 | Because the company has been on its present site for over a century it recognises its responsibilities to the environment and to the local community . |
| 21 | Right , so you think that Margaret Thatcher , having been Prime Minister for over a decade and having nominated her heir apparent , and having left in erm a rather tearful manner and being pushed out , you think that she said ‘ right , from now on it 's hands off ’ ? |
| 22 | In 1986/87 , 70% of mergers involved firms with combined sales of over 1 billion ecus , whereas the figure in 1988/89 was over 90% . |
| 23 | The earl had successfully held minor raids near Carlisle , apparently launched to sound out the defences of the western march , and at Berwick the garrison , with the help of George Dunbar , that angry refugee from over the border , poacher turned forester , had decisively defeated a party of four hundred Scots . |
| 24 | The conference , the first general feminist-socialist conference for over a decade , attracted over 400 women from across the country . |
| 25 | Government officials announced that spending would be cut by 15 per cent and civil service recruitment by 40 per cent , with consequent savings of over KSh600,000,000 . |
| 26 | For years , neglected in the centre of Oxford , it 's been a rest-spot for the weary taxi-driver for over a century and now 's lovingly restored and converted into a shop . |
| 27 | He gave as an example the ‘ Union of Building and Repair Workers of Korea ’ with an alleged membership of over one million , which was challenged by the Soviet delegation ; subsequently the American delegation conceded it did not exist . |
| 28 | I do n't get red , I 've never have done I , its only sort of over the past sort of half year , and I do n't know why , they never started , started to go red |
| 29 | He then assumes that for each country the rate of growth of aggregate demand or nominal spending has followed a very simple process ; that is , where is the rate of growth of the ith country 's nominal spending , is the mean value of over the whole period , and is the deviation of from its mean . |
| 30 | ‘ We 've had a lot of conflicting information from over there . |