Example sentences of "[unc] [prep] the [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | and there was a hole er on the floor over there with a grating on it that was you could see through to the ground . |
| 2 | But the cow man he wore his cap w with the peak over h er er the back of his head . |
| 3 | Brian Roycroft , President of the Association of Directors of Social Services in 1988 , in answer to the question ‘ What is the incidence of child abuse and child sexual abuse ? ’ in his evidence to the Cleveland Inquiry , reported that : He went on to say , however , that his association undertook a survey in July 1987 of 100 local authorities and found an increase in child abuse registrations of 22 per cent for the country over the previous year , with the most significant increases in child sexual abuse . |
| 4 | In 1980 , the illiteracy rate was estimated to be 40 per cent of the population over the age of fifteen , with a further 15 per cent semi-literate . |
| 5 | According to the 1981 census , 46.5 per cent of the population over the age of seventeen was illiterate . |
| 6 | All the evidence suggests that for 99.9 per cent of the population over the age of seven or eight homosexuality is determined . ' |
| 7 | Calculated at around four per cent of the loan over the 70 or 80 per cent , the money is used by the lender to take out an insurance policy which covers them if you should default . |
| 8 | The futures market is expecting sterling to depreciate by 4 per cent against the dollar over the year . |
| 9 | The rise in Japanese interest rates , and narrowing of interest rate differentials vis-a-vis other major currencies did not stem the slide of the yen , which depreciated by about 15 per cent against the US dollar and by 22 per cent against the deutschmark over the same period . |