Example sentences of "[no cls] [noun] over the " in BNC.

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1 Ted Winters ' , on his 13th. sortie over the island .
2 Extremes of temperature are clearly undesirable , but the goldfish is well adapted to the seasonal cycle of temperature and changes that range from 4°-25° Celsius over the year presents no problem to the hardiest varieties , while the more delicate fancies would be well suited by a range between 10°-25° C.
3 Er I 've qualified er people over the phone where it 's a long distance .
4 And I was in a ca , er school over the summer holidays and er , we were looking at the design and technology and the point was that they got ta design and make some components , and realise I 'm talking about , you know , six , seven , eight year old , mixed girls and boys theirselves , and it was ra rather heart-warming to see where the way these youngsters react .
5 Also in Italy is the beautiful single-arched bridge at Ascoli Piceno and , at Rimini , the Bridge of Augustus ( Tiberius ) still bears the heavy traffic of the Via Flaminia over the River Marecchia .
6 It 's erm feud over the house that Jack built .
7 Erm in short Adam had been given erm lordship over the earth and all its creatures and with that he 'd been given lordship over all human beings and the kings of this earth have inherited that lordship , that dominion .
8 erm Peter over the road there 's trying to keep it away from Wheatley erm and we 're not quite happy about what 's going on in Chipping Norton .
9 That is indeed part of their strategy but the fact of the matter is that the county council is wholly implicated in the efforts that have been made in this erm county over the last couple of years to get large scale inward investment .
10 On this occasion , the three-and-a-half-kilometre journey over the Ponte della Liberta was accomplished with ease and comfort .
11 While Computer 2000 AG fumes over the potential implications of the Polish government 's decision to waive duty on the imports of local assemblers ( CI No 2,140 ) , indications are emerging that the company 's six-month-old operation in Hungary is beginning to perform after a troubled start .
12 SECOND Alliance Trust has again outperformed the FT Actuaries All-Share Index in its first six months , lifting its net asset value per share by 22.7 per cent , from £13.62p a year ago to £15.7p , compared with the index 's 19.3 per cent rise over the same period , writes George Duthie .
13 Scottish Office figures suggest a 124 per cent rise over the Thatcher decade in the number of homeless ‘ households ’ seeking help in Scotland , and a 101 per cent rise in the numbers assessed homeless .
14 But the employers persuaded them to hold off until 1966 , when they settled for a mere 5 per cent rise over the three years to 1969 .
15 We had 80 per cent occupancy over the entire year , yet we 're about 25 per cent down on budget for those occupancy figures . ’
16 The government is committed to a 60 per cent reduction over the same period .
17 There 's been something like twenty per cent cut over the last few years and erm some faculty members have taken early retirement and left , so a lot of subjects have lost some of their most able people .
18 I made , I think , a 2 per cent or 3 per cent error over the whole test .
19 The Guardian/ICM poll , taken last week when interest rates went up to 15 per cent , also found that Labour had maintained its 10 per cent lead over the Conservatives .
20 It suggests that the market will continue to show growth of 2.9 per cent pa over the next five years despite the major question mark over recyclability and solvent emissions .
21 Car insurance premiums shot up by almost a quarter — and drivers will suffer 15 per cent rises over the next year .
22 If , because of the size of the cylinder index , only a higher-level index than the cylinder index can be held in main storage , a 20–50 per cent improvement over the performance of the file when the master index is stored on disk can still be achieved .
23 The study , which includes flame retardants , antioxidants , heat stabilisers , light stabilisers , colorants and blowing agents , forecasts an 18 per cent growth over the five year period with sales rising from $1200m in 1991 to $1300m in 1996 .
24 The amount of silt that the Huanghe brings to the China Sea ( 1.6 × 10 t per year ) represents a 25 per cent increase over the last 30 years and is due mainly to the conversion of grasslands to arable fields ( Smil 1987b ) .
25 This compares with a 22 per cent increase over the same period last year
26 Even so , contract caterers are now providing nearly 55 per cent of meals served in business and industry , a 11 per cent increase over the previous year and the overall number of outlets operated by contractors also grew by one per cent .
27 Foreign nationals would be permitted to hold a maximum 20 per cent of the 60 Legco seats ( a 5 per cent increase over the political subcommittee 's recommendations ) .
28 Indo-Soviet trade , which had been increasing rapidly , was expected to grow further after the signing of a trade protocol worth Rs70,000 million in 1989 , a 35 per cent increase over the sum for 1988 .
29 This surplus amounted to no more than 73 per cent of debt service and remittance payments ; and in spite of a 57 per cent increase in the volume of exports since 1980 , poor prices meant that the value of such exports represented a mere 24 per cent increase over the decade .
30 The plan called for investments totalling US$6,831 million — a 56 per cent increase over the previous five-year period — and an annual 5 per cent growth rate .
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