Example sentences of "[verb] over the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this man he entrusted six wagonloads of treasure , and sent him off to wander over the whole wide world , looking for a twin brother and sister , Stoja and Stojane . |
| 2 | The need for it has reduced but has not vanished over the past twenty years . |
| 3 | They were walking over the deep sun-baked mud-tracks of the lane and you had to watch where you put your feet if you did n't want to twist your ankle . |
| 4 | At nearly fifteen he was already over six feet tall and towered over the little Irish doctor in front of him . |
| 5 | While bank deposits have stagnated over the past three years , mutual funds , which are mostly outside the banks ' domain , have grown by two-thirds . |
| 6 | Does he agree that what they need is support and proper resources so that they can carry out their work , not what has been happening over the past 12 years — continual restructuring and reforms which do the service no good and break up the comprehensive national health service that we all know ? |
| 7 | She should have been sharing breakfast with Kelly right now , laughing and chatting , catching up on all that had been happening over the past few months . |
| 8 | On the contrary , what is happening , and has been happening over the past ten years or so , raises very serious questions indeed . |
| 9 | All the hospitals in Southampton have been rebuilt over the past few years . |
| 10 | It was suggested that too much VAT had been claimed over the previous two years . |
| 11 | It was suggested that too much VAT had been claimed over the previous two years . |
| 12 | Despite a worldwide decline in average sperm counts over the past 50 years , those of Finnish men remain roughly twice those of men in other countries , according to Finnish research . |
| 13 | I have been very pleased with my performance , with my success and the achievements which I have enjoyed over the past 20 years . |
| 14 | Further clashes occurred over the following two weeks , and on Dec. 6 two high-school students were killed . |
| 15 | As Kmart has begun putting these data to work over the past few years , the company 's operations have become steadily more centralised . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A survey of the Japanese computer market in Nikkei group magazine Nikkei Computer estimates the Japanese domestic computer market at $92,000m : a growth rate of 6% is expected over the new financial year that started on April 1 ; by sector the market grew last fiscal by 18% for Unix systems , compared with 8% for the data services market , 5% for mainframe computers and 3% for small business computers , while personal computers saw negative growth ; Unix machines are expected to grow by 20% this year and personal computers to put on 7% ; mainframes are again expected to be affected by the depressed economic conditions but will still manage 2% growth . |
| 18 | It was a black day for Chancellor Kohl whose personal popularity has been steadily eroded over the past two years and whose ability to provide the CDU with effective leadership will be questioned more seriously than before . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This model has been developed and validated over the past four years by a research team at Loughborough University through extensive experimentation . |
| 21 | Recycling programmmes have failed to prevent Europe 's cities from increasing by 13 per cent the volume of waste discarded over the past five years . |
| 22 | In the frightful aftermath of the war , he dithered about UN protection for fleeing Kurds and presided over the horrendous first muddle in UN relief work . |
| 23 | And I 'm sure that this report on the health action area is going to show some fairly , erm give us some fairly staggering erm revelations about about the health of Oxford citizens that 's going to surprise people at large when they find out how badly people have fared over the past ten years when we 've had the Tories in office who 've really done their very , very best to make the health divide of this country in a very poor state . |
| 24 | The newsheet had started to appear over the past few days as the villagers began to return to their homes . |
| 25 | The Unity Campaign could hardly avoid the accusation that it was creating a new organization to invite Labour Party members to work together with Communists , which every Labour Conference decision had forbidden over the previous ten years . |
| 26 | The increases were necessary , it was announced , because the burden of government subsidies had quadrupled over the past 10 years . |
| 27 | The urgency and decisiveness with which he moved over the following six months contrasted markedly with his tentative performance in the post-liberation period and obviously reflected the hard lessons that he had learned . |
| 28 | FKB , the UK 's largest independent sales promotion company , has over the past 15 months made half a dozen US acquisitions . |
| 29 | With every inhalation and exhalation , air passes over the false vocal cords and makes the rrrrrrr noise of the purr . |
| 30 | Social work 's image has suffered over the past dozen or so years from a series of scandals where agencies ' failures have been highlighted , often with total disregard to their successes . |