Example sentences of "to [art] [noun] over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would it be done in the first year of a Labour Government , in the first Labour Parliament , or in two or three terms , or will there be an exchange rate mechanism-type growing process whereby we get used to the idea over 10 or 15 years and the Scots can have it immediately because they are culturally and politically ready for it , but the people of the north , who are not that bothered , will have to wait 15 years until they see the advantages that will supposedly accrue to Scotland and then will mount the barricades and demand the same for themselves ? |
| 2 | Using the end-1985 stock as a base , a rise of 0.7 in JXC ( equivalent to the change over 1985 Q4–1987 Q4 ) implies an increase in the stock of some 23.7bn . |
| 3 | And she knew that he had been to The Bar over thirty times in seven weeks now . |
| 4 | On this basis the UK had held its own relative to the USA over 25 years but had fallen below the average of the six , certainly below Japan , West Germany and France ; indeed Japan overtook the UK in 1972 , West Germany in the early 1960s , and France in the late 1960s , but on this calculation the UK still lay ahead of Italy . |
| 5 | I do n't think I 'll go to the wall over eight , chairman . |
| 6 | While I acclimatised myself to the changes over forty years , I went into my own world , back even further than that first hospital . |
| 7 | Secondly , the Prime Minister refers to the record over 13 years . |
| 8 | It is a pity about Gray because he has given much to the club over three years . |
| 9 | The document effectively brought to an end over four decades of " civil war " between the Kuomintang government of the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) and the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) -ruled People 's Republic of China . |