Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | the proliferation of technical manuals over the last twenty years has meant that the number of manuals supplied with complex aircraft/systems has increased to the point where it is practically impossible to access all the information in the ‘ library ’ ( Fig. 1 shows an example of technical manual growth rate within the Naval Air Systems Command ) ; |
| 2 | The general approach adopted by the House of Lords to the weight which should be attached to the views of a child who has sufficient understanding to make an informed decision is clearly of great importance , but it is essential to bear in mind that their Lordships were concerned with the extent of parental rights over the welfare of the child . |
| 3 | The revision of liturgical texts over the last thirty years has brought both problems and opportunities . |
| 4 | The current valuation of the collection , made by a team of Spanish experts over the past six years , is considered to be well below the market value of the works . |
| 5 | In fact , a great many of the most important decisions by British Governments have been introduced without any prior leave by the electorate as has been the case with respect to the repeal of the Corn Laws , 1846 , the passing of the Trades Disputes Act , 1927 , the departure from the Gold Standard in 1931 , the decision by the post-war Labour Government to opt for a nuclear-defence policy , the decision to apply for membership of the European Economic Community in 1961 , the passage of the Commonwealth Immigration Act , 1968 , as well as a host of foreign-policy matters over the years . |
| 6 | A better understanding of the normal physiology , developmental anatomy , and pathology of the prepuce could prevent the removal of thousands of normal foreskins over the next 20 years . |
| 7 | This model provided a way of visualizing the pattern of morphogenetic systems over the earth 's surface during the Cainozoic and so lent itself to a clear way of integrating contemporary world zones with those of the past when ice sheets were non-existent or much less extensive . |
| 8 | The Thames has seen its share of odd events over the years , but a Dragon Boat Race must rank alongside waterskiing commuters . |
| 9 | The Trust aims to complete work on all 125 miles of designated paths over the next four years . |
| 10 | Thus on the one hand the liberal , free economy strategy is evidenced in the non-censorship of all but the most extreme pornography and the encouragement of commercial values in broadcasting , which is likely to mean decreased control over pornographic images , while on the other the strong state strategy is evidenced by that hard core pornography is not open to direct viewing by the public and by the appointment of censorious watchdogs over the BBC . |
| 11 | After investing £15 million in a variety of different schemes over the previous six years , and just when developments were looking promising , the government 's funding ( channelled through the Energy Technology Support Unit , part of the Harwell-based UK Atomic Energy Authority ) was cut . |
| 12 | He tests it using data from a number of different countries over the same time period , reasoning that if equation ( 6.1 ) were true , then those countries in which aggregate demand has been highly unpredictable should be those countries in which unpredictable aggregate demand has little effect on real output . |
| 13 | Mr Edward Pearce , the political pundit whose views have appeared in an impressive number of different newspapers over the past few years , has been pondering the curse of the accountant for the benefit of Guardian readers . |
| 14 | Additional interest is generated by the large and varying changes in the real price of different fuels over the 1970s and early 1980s and by the question as to how this has affected different households . |
| 15 | They would pass into the hands of number of different owners over the years , but Charles Titford was to remain the occupier until his death in 1802 . |
| 16 | A comparison of the average output per annum of scientific papers over the past four years is revealing . |
| 17 | Even within existing state bodies , the workings of legal or administrative imperatives are being complicated by commercial forces , which reflect the revolution in the bureaucratic culture of British institutions over the past decade . |
| 18 | After the brinkmanship of the Holbein , an insider view of the ongoing dealings of British museums over the Holkham drawings |
| 19 | This ‘ problem ’ reflected the increased power of the shop stewards movement in a macroeconomic context of sustained relatively full employment and an industrial context of increased concentration of labour in the mass production of standardised commodities , and was probably exacerbated by the restriction of real wages over the late '60s : it was by no means unique to Britain . |
| 20 | Imprisonment for ordinary civil debt was abolished by statute in 1970 — another hundred years had had to pass since the enactment of the 1869 measure which was seen as the triumph of liberal attitudes over the centuries-long stand of the powerful trader lobby . |
| 21 | Tory governments that have said they are the champions of the individual , but have eroded the rights of individual workers over the last fourteen years . |
| 22 | When these targets had been achieved , with increased skill and investment levels showing up in higher productivity , the proposal would be to implement a higher national minimum wage for all workers , aiming for 60 per cent of average earnings over the following five years . |
| 23 | There was no final triumph of censorship or purity during the nineteenth century , whatever the efforts of the social morality crusaders ; and the continuing concern of moral conservatives over the flood of unexpurgated literature , street ballads , music-hall songs , dubious pamphlets and advertisements attests to their continuing presence as much as to the concern of the moralists . |
| 24 | I only had to deal with a couple of vicious assaults over the telephone when the magazine I was writing for decided he was too dodgy to get involved with and , with mind-boggling nerve , he threatened us with legal action for breach of contract . |
| 25 | If an example is needed to make this clearer one can be found in the special place occupied by the Second World War in public consciousness in Britain and , more particularly , in Margaret Thatcher 's increasingly deliberate manipulation of Churchillian sketches over the period of the Falklands crisis . |
| 26 | Although there are dangers in concentrating on a single see , the information provided by Gregory does allow a study of episcopal elections over the best part of a century . |
| 27 | There has been a flurry of colourful rumours over the sale of Irises in the past ten days . |
| 28 | The number of male suicides over the ten years was 2,073 — almost three times the total of females ( 682 ) . |
| 29 | Basically this calls for an identification of present requirements and an assessment of likely requirements over the next 5 years , subject to review/upgrading in year 6 ; it may be that our letter conveyed the impression that we were asking for a ‘ 12-year plan ’ , this is not the case . |
| 30 | However , by 1892 the immense amount of work on the structure and synthesis of organic compounds over the previous 25–30 years made a more systematic approach to naming these compounds necessary . |