Example sentences of "and [noun] over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The raid on Culquha Farm , Ringford , near Castle Douglas , brings to more than £30,000 the value of sheep , cattle and horses stolen in Dumfries and Galloway over the last 12 months . |
| 2 | He and his mother had had many arguments and disagreements over the past few years . |
| 3 | The controversy between Hungary and Czechoslovakia over the proposed dam on the Danube at Gabcikovo [ see ED 56 ] has intensified , with Hungary abrogating the 1977 treaty between the two countries under which the dam was originally planned . |
| 4 | IC received a report of its cosponsored conference held in Sri Lanka in May , and noted developments towards other meetings to be held in Egypt , India and Botswana over the next 12 months . |
| 5 | The bomb tore through shops and houses over a 1,000 yard radius — stretching from Bridge Street to Castle Street . |
| 6 | At that time it had commanded fine views : south all the way to the river ; north and west over the lush pastures of the region towards the tiny village of Hampstead . |
| 7 | This demonstration shows how railways have improved communications between the signalman and driver over the last eighty years . |
| 8 | Many common passerine species must also have increased their downland ranges as a result of the slow advance of scrub and woodland over the remaining grass , and probably the downland avifauna is more varied today than in 1939 despite losing its characteristic and most interesting specialities . |
| 9 | Fr Bernard 's years as an assistant priest were marked by enthusiasm and expertise over the whole range of his work , not least in the Scout Movement — finally as Assistant Commissioner — and in the schools and at Endsleigh Convent and College . |
| 10 | Most effective of all in stopping any new building were the Lammas pasture rights — that is , the right of burgesses , or some of them , to graze their cattle and sheep over the open fields after the harvest had been taken in . |
| 11 | The importance of grazing both cows and sheep over the same land ( either together or in succession ) , both for the good of the sward and the health of the livestock , is explained at the beginning of Chapter 6 . |
| 12 | The ecological significance of these precipitation figures in terms of soil moisture may be judged by relating them to the amount of moisture lost through evaporation and transpiration over a given period . |
| 13 | There were abortive attempts at a settlement by the American Secretary of State , General Alexander Haig , and discussions over a Peruvian peace plan which would bypass the British contention that it possessed sole sovereignty over the Falklands . |
| 14 | His Chinese counterpart , Qian Qichen , described relations as having " gradually improved " following " difficulties and setbacks over the past 10 years " . |
| 15 | It is , however , vital that mothers realise that scans do not only detect abnormalities , they also detect multiple births , and have been one of the main factors in increasing the survival rate of twins and triplets over the last few years . |
| 16 | Shortly after admission abdominal distension and tenderness over the transverse colon was noted . |
| 17 | When the Prince moved to a small lodge on the edge of the Steine in the 1780s fashion followed , and Brighton over the next fifty years provided perhaps the ultimate example of the marked contrast between attempts at a classical social order and a barely restrained chaos whose uneasy juxtaposition opened wider chasms in late Georgian society . |
| 18 | HP boasted that over 100 IBM customers had already offloaded or replaced applications from their mainframes over to HP business systems and servers over the past year , and quoted Dataquest figures that show 46% of mainframes sites surveyed in the process of downsizing . |
| 19 | We prove it to them by demonstrating that the money we need for research and investment over the next few years is in place . |
| 20 | The slowdown in the world economy and higher prices in Eastern Europe because of subsidy cuts have both squeezed demand , and the Gulf crisis accounts for a loss of some 350,000 tonnes of sales to Iraq and Kuwait over the past six months . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Noorda says that Novell is acutely aware of the ‘ history ’ of Unix and its penetration into government and industry over the past 20 years . |
| 23 | Mr Atkinson said the work would cost £60m over the first four years and between £11m and £15m over the next nine years . |
| 24 | In the decade 's final timetable , there is an express every 15 minutes ( plus one extra ) between Swindon and Paddington over a two-and-a-half-hour period in the morning rush . |
| 25 | These intrusions caused the limestone and sandstone rocks above to buckle , crack and fault over the subterranean peaks of granite . |
| 26 | Users of private WANs have been able to send both voice and data over the same lines for years . |
| 27 | The death rate for bleeding peptic ulcers has averaged between 6% and 10% over the past 30 years . |
| 28 | POLICE last night questioned people in Edinburgh pubs , clubs and restaurants over the fatal stabbing last Saturday of a student , Paul Sheldon . |
| 29 | It features elements of many of the trends in classification theory and practice over the past 100 years . |
| 30 | 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 . |