Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [noun pl] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Husbands and wives over the age of sixty were not compelled to live apart in the workhouse . |
| 2 | Expenses cashier Fiona Smith has been collecting the small change when people have returned from overseas business trips and holidays over the last six months . |
| 3 | The interior , built of large blocks of reddish stone , is wide and spacious , its nave covered by two plastered domes and others over the crossing and one transept ( while a barrel vault covers the other ) . |
| 4 | Louis 's aim was twofold : first , to cope with the tensions that had arisen from the implementation of ecclesiastical reforms , for instance by sending out missi to settle disputes between clergy and laymen over the appropriation of tithes ; and second , to tighten control of local government , for instance , by asking missi to draw up lists of all those liable for military service in each county . |
| 5 | The state of the market can be ascertained by visiting a number of shops and auctions over the period of a few weeks , and carefully noting the prices . |
| 6 | We think that it conserves services , that it has searched out the vast majority of efficiencies that we can find within this council and that it does n't pass on to the poll tax , council tax payers the fruits , I mean it does pass on the poll tax or council tax payers the fruits of how we have achieved savings and efficiencies over the last couple of years . |
| 7 | And the thousands going to sports stadiums , restaurants and theatres over the weekend need to keep alert . |
| 8 | She watched the play of sinews and veins over the backs of his hands as he massaged the cream in . |
| 9 | And secondly , in terms of Liz Liz is someone I know extremely well and have worked with in various functions and committees over the past . |
| 10 | Sir : The letter from the vice-chancellor of Essex University ( 10 October ) reflects the appalling compliance with government views which has been the policy of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals over the last decade . |
| 11 | The powers that be over at Sun Microsystems Computer Corp and SunSoft Inc are starting to collect complaints from cloners and resellers over the way SMCC salesmen are hustling volume accounts , not playing by the rules and nosing compatibles out of upgrade sites . |
| 12 | But Mr Pannone said that while the Director of Public Prosecutions had decided eventually to prosecute P & O European Ferries and directors and employees over the Herald of Free Enterprise tragedy , he had decided against prosecutions over the King 's Cross fire . |
| 13 | The latest squabble between supermarkets and banks over the latter 's unilateral decision to hoist transaction charges may of course make debit cards less attractive to consumers if the charges end up being passed on . |
| 14 | The first of these disputes to emerge was in the Caucasus , where the most serious civil disturbances in Soviet post-war history took place between Armenians and Azerbaijanis over the disputed territorial enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh . |
| 15 | Many perceived the affair as a struggle between the competing claims of parents and teachers over the education of the child . |
| 16 | One of the reasons for this state of affairs is the publicity that has been given to the hills by him and numerous other writers of magazine articles and books over the past 20 or 30 years . |
| 17 | Left to itself , the Single Market will favour the strong ‘ core ’ states and regions over the weak ‘ peripheral ’ and ‘ semi-peripheral ’ areas of the Community — many of which are in Britain . |
| 18 | SPEAKING at the annual meeting of the Diocesan Vestment Guild following the Thanksgiving Mass in the Cathedral , Mrs Barbary Boyes , secretary and treasurer for the past 42 years , gave her account of some of the Guild 's activities and achievements over the past century . |
| 19 | Less money would be available for one-off projects and schemes over the next year , William Brown , chairman of the SAC , said . |
| 20 | Everyone , I 'm sure , has a ‘ little black dress ’ type of pattern , by which I mean a perennial favourite that gets made up in different yarns and colours over the years for various celebrations , parties and so on . |
| 21 | The workers , placed in a situation where they could trust neither management nor union , entered into an uneasy alliance with the group , engaging in a series of discussions and meetings over the summer of 1980 . |
| 22 | The Malvern Hills have provided inspiration for many artists and musicians over the decades . |
| 23 | Stoll and Whaley ( 199Ob ) analysed returns ( logarithm of the price relative ) over five-minute intervals for the S&P500 and MMI index futures and indices over the period from 1982 to 1987 . |
| 24 | Those worth considering , as they also have a variety of reds and greens over the basic coloration as well as stripes , include C. festae , C. urophthalmus or trimaculatum . |
| 25 | POLICE last night questioned people in Edinburgh pubs , clubs and restaurants over the fatal stabbing last Saturday of a student , Paul Sheldon . |
| 26 | Two assemblages differ from this pattern in having deficits of both molars and incisors over the numbers of teeth lost from the jaws ( Table 3.9 ) . |
| 27 | Yet the current momentum of industrial development is expected to result in the disappearance of no less than 20,000 species of plants and animals over the next decade . |
| 28 | Human population expansion is threatening to lead to unprecedented extinctions of plants and animals over the next 50 years , according to a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) . |
| 29 | These inequalities have changed a little in some aspects as regards both the costs and rewards over the years but the striking feature is their extreme rigidity . |
| 30 | However , if we looked at the total costs of using the vehicles one could argue that by using reducing balance the repair costs in later life would be compensated by the additional depreciation in earlier years so achieving a matching of costs and revenues over the assets ' life . |