Example sentences of "in [det] [noun sg] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The excess of Government expenditure in that year over the yield of taxation was forecast to be £1 billion and actually turned out to be just over £1and1/2 ; billion . |
| 2 | ‘ Mind you , I 'm regarded more as a provider than a goalscorer and I have n't done too badly in that department over the last couple of years . ’ |
| 3 | Meanwhile , heat the distilled water in another basin over a pan of simmering water until it has warmed . |
| 4 | Full details were advertised in this newspaper over the past two weeks . |
| 5 | Now , as the chairman said we base the salaries of directors on two elements an element of base salary which looks at market levels and we ergo , have a fair base which reflects a sort of medium to upper level of companies of this size we then leverage , very carefully , a bonus scheme related to performance and I believe that is the right thing to do and I believe and so do my fellow directors who sit on that committee believe that it is one of the reasons that we 've seen the great growth in this company over the last five years which you 've achieved and which actually the Chancellor of the Exchequer would very glad about because it is increasing the wealth and the benefit of this country , particularly as a lot of those earnings are coming from overseas and will in , in time be repatriated in Britain . |
| 6 | Well , I 'd like to do , that we do do that , I mean , we have I think made some submissions in the past , but I think it 's now quite clear that the fears that we 've expressed in this committee over the years , are well founded , and we 've got to the point , where the whole er project for the special needs people , is is going is going to be very vulnerable . |
| 7 | The development of SVQs has formed a major part of our work in this sector over the last year . |
| 8 | I was fortunate to have been associated with him in this development over the first half of the 1940s . |
| 9 | ‘ What has predominantly improved race relations in this country over the last 25 years has been the firm , fair immigration controls we have sustained throughout that period . |
| 10 | The case has echoes of the row that erupted in this country over The Krays movie . |
| 11 | We have seen how the corporatist welfare state which has emerged in this country over the past hundred years is a reflection of a humanist philosophy in which the creation of wealth is of less concern and morally inferior than its distribution , in which the pursuit of equality has become the dominant economic philosophy and in which the state rather than the individual has come to be held responsible for solving our problems . |
| 12 | He has played a significant though unsung part in the primary school revolution which has taken place in this country over the last ten to fifteen years . |
| 13 | Does my hon. Friend agree that those figures reflect a sharp improvement in this country over the past few years and scope for some of our Community partners to do more to encourage unleaded petrol sales ? |
| 14 | THE stock market received a lift today on news of a cut in German interest rates which raised hopes of a similar reduction in this country over the next few weeks by Chancellor Kenneth Clarke . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's been terrible watching the change in this country over the past 20 years from a time when the consensus was that the public good was what mattered , to today when people only care about shopping . |
| 16 | This has been the most fastest growing part of the holiday taking in this country over the past two or three years and I 'm hoping it will continue and so does our industry — in other words the hotels and accommodation , the tourist attractions — all are hoping , you know , that people are going to continue to do this erm and I think this may apply to certain sectors of the community erm and we just hope that that will grow . |
| 17 | You very humbly describe yourself as an absent Pro-Chancellor , but you have taken a considerable interest in this university over the years , and we 've been grateful for it . |
| 18 | But our legal practice is not unilateralist in this way over the broad reaches of the private law that we have mostly been discussing in this book-judges very often decide for the plaintiff , as they did in McLoughlin , when according to conventionalism the plaintiff had no legal right to win . |
| 19 | An increase of 31% ( to £40.1m ) in fees for work in this area over the year — including the administration of the Maxwell Communication Corporation , and debt rescheduling for Heron Corporation and WPP — lifted PW 's total income to £395.1m , up 2% on last year 's . |
| 20 | Erm there 's been a reduction er , in the er , staff er because er er people have moved on and er , I take Sue 's point about er if it were n't for the fact that erm they 'd got fully e e experienced staff who 've been there some time , they have n't , not used to this churning over o of , and therefore , that has paid off in er in er in erm so far as being able to deal with the problems that have arisen and er , you 'll see further on er , addition profiles of the work that 's been done with er in this area over the town . |
| 21 | ‘ BP has deferred activity in this area over the past few years , ’ said Neil Butler , Business manager , SSH . |
| 22 | The Collector had sat a good deal in this chair over the past few days and it had come to affect his habits of thought . |
| 23 | We have recently shown that significant portal and systemic endotoxaemia occurs in this model over a period of three weeks . |
| 24 | On this occasion some of the Messerschmitts had carried bombs for the first time — not a new role for III/JG 27 , which had operated in this manner over the Balkans during the previous month . |
| 25 | The skyline is dominated by the two Sizewell nuclear power stations in this view over the reedbeds and pools of the Minsmere bird reserve |
| 26 | M. Dupont went on : ‘ Many things of interest have been said in this house over the past days . |
| 27 | The larger departments , with their larger seminar groups , may have an inherent advantage in this respect over the smaller units . |
| 28 | " But I dare say he 's impatient , " thought Hazel , " or he may have come off worst in some scuffle over a doe and taken it hard . |
| 29 | Crossed his eyes and exploded Old Buck 's head in some quarrel over a high yaller lady , then hit the trail in Buck 's G-Mek convertible . ’ |
| 30 | I would just like to answer one or two things , erm , erm , he , he , one of the things he 's saying er , is that erm , oh dear I 've forgotten what I was going to say now , and I have n't got it written down , got it written down , can I go on to something else erm , the Home Secretary does seem to be in some disarray over the proposed bill . |