Example sentences of "to [adj] [noun pl] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between November 1981 and November 1983 , encouragement was given to unemployed men over the age of 60 to withdraw from the labour force by offering to pay them the long-term rate of supplementary benefit if they agreed not to register as unemployed . |
| 2 | Helen had gone to some lengths over the picnic ; the recipe book included a relevant section , she discovered . |
| 3 | Moneylenders were registered ; subject to some conditions over the way they did business ; they were able to advertise in only a very restricted way ( for example , they were not allowed to mention interest rates or repayment schedules ) ; and courts could re-open their loans , setting new terms , if they charged excessive interest and the original terms were ‘ harsh and unconscionable ’ . |
| 4 | The independent Phoenix Cinema in Oxford is set to play to packed houses over the next few weeks with a film that 's bound to be listed among the greatest successes of British Cinema in recent years . |
| 5 | Japanese and Polish scientists have studied samples of cod-liver oil taken from fish and found that levels of DDT had fallen from 25 micrograms per gram in 1974 to 3 micrograms in 1989 , and levels of PCBs had fallen from 18 to 7 micrograms over the same period . |
| 6 | The poll also shows the Tories have cut Labour 's lead from nine to six points over the past month . |
| 7 | The victory stretched their Group III lead to three points over the Republic of Ireland . |
| 8 | One can only hope that in their visits to these firms over the last few days , Ray Noorda and Roel Pieper were sufficiently persuasive . |
| 9 | They claimed the Goths who had settled along the Vistula and in the Ukraine as the founders of the Polish state , saying that rule and order had been brought to these lands over the heads of the drunken , idolatrous and stupid Polish peasantry . |
| 10 | The authors ' ability to infer water chemistry quantitatively from sediment diatom assemblages is due to rapid developments over the past 5–10 years . |
| 11 | If there is a good general historical museum within the region , offering wide ranging collections , then this is a resource that pupils should return to many times over the years , to pursue different enquiries . |
| 12 | Free speech and free political association were to be backed by an extension of the franchise to all adults over the age of 20 , a formal extension of the power of the elected legislature ( the Diet ) and guarantees of judicial independence from both the executive and the Diet . |
| 13 | The NILP pledged an extension of the city boundary and the extension of the local government franchise to all citizens over the age of twenty-one , the abolition of the company vote , the realignment of electoral boundaries and the allocation of houses ‘ solely on the basis of need ’ . |
| 14 | His reply to the expected criticism is that ideals must be striven for particularly now since ‘ in a position in which old peoples and old cultures are likely to be supplanted by new — we are in a common danger to all races over the whole circumference of the globe ’ . |
| 15 | The competition is open to all readers over the age of 18 in Great Britain , Northern Ireland , Jersey , Guernsey and the Isle of Man , but not Eire . |
| 16 | Attention should also be given to Anglo-American discussions over the importance of the Near and Middle East in the context of a Soviet threat which was believed to extend from Western Europe to Asia Minor . |
| 17 | As part of the technology initiative announced during a stop in California 's Silicon Valley , President Clinton also pledged billions of dollars in additional help to high-tech enterprises over the next four years to encourage new business initiatives . |
| 18 | The report suggests , however , that coral growth will be able to keep pace with sea rises of up to 3 metres over the next hundred years . |
| 19 | Managing director Albero Sandoval places the potential market at 100,000 users , predicting that this will rise to 600,000 subscribers over the next 10 years , of which it is hoped that some 300,000 will use Sistelcom 's system . |
| 20 | Under current trade arrangements , Hungary is allowed to export 5,000 tonnes of beef per year to the EEC , which is to rise to 6,500 tonnes over the next five years . |
| 21 | Simple pressure of calls has taken us from one to five lines over the years and the only reason we have stuck at five is because the office is simply too small to take any more . |
| 22 | She bowed to Scots nationalists over Ravenscraig steelworks and to Welsh nationalists over the Welsh television channel , ‘ Sianel Pedwar ’ or S4C . |
| 23 | Travelling to several countries over the last year , has brought it home to me how disastrous are the effects , worldwide , of the virus causing AIDS . |
| 24 | As China 's reaction to Western sanctions over the events in Tiananmen has shown , further international pressure on the Dalai Lama 's behalf may only reinforce Peking 's siege mentality and strengthen its conviction that the West is conspiring to undermine socialism in China . |
| 25 | Police added : ‘ We are investigating to see if there are any similarities to other attacks over the last few months in other parts of the country . |
| 26 | Nicholson 's fine form since his move to new stables over the summer adds to confidence . |
| 27 | OATS has also won a contract from Kuwait Airways to train up to thirty pilots over the next two years . |
| 28 | In short , tariffs by themselves would have been unlikely to have provided little more than a temporary palliative to ailing industries over the period under review . |
| 29 | Lovely walks to excellent views over the Inland Ionian Sea . |