Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1932 , when Hitler was running for Reich President and the Nazi Movement was gaining the support of over a third of the population , the ‘ Jewish Question , scarcely featured in Hitler 's public addresses . |
| 2 | I 've been working with the deaf-aid for over a week , for God 's sake , and I realised how much I rely on it . |
| 3 | The emplacement of over a million tonnes of alkali-rich cementitious material into a saturated groundwater environment would be likely to make the groundwater more alkaline . |
| 4 | In July 1977 , Revco Drug Stores , one of America 's largest discount drug chains , was found guilty of computer-generated double-billing schemes that resulted in the loss of over a half-million dollars in Medicaid funds to the Ohio Department of Public Welfare ( Vaughan 1980 ) . |
| 5 | An attempt was made , at least by de Gaulle , to link riots in Syria in May 1945 with what happened in Algeria on VE Day ; but the scale of the French reaction in Algeria to the murder of over a hundred European settlers and associated atrocities left at least a thousand and perhaps as many as six thousand Algerian dead . |
| 6 | The list 's been on the listserv for over a week now , and everything seems to be going just fine ( with the exception of Declan 's wacky address : - ) |
| 7 | She has not only suffered the anguish of over a quarter of a century of separation from her husband , but has also experienced unending persecution at the hands of the regime , such as banishment , Imprisonment , torture and sustained harassment over a period of more than two decades . |
| 8 | Grace Reginiano of Isrotel and Tennis World 's Fiona Taylor accompanied the group on its trip — the culmination of over a year 's doubles ' competition from over 500 tennis World readers . |
| 9 | He claimed to have taken the informations of over a hundred witnesses , English and Irish . |
| 10 | More than 10,000 joined the peace meeting celebrating the dismantling of the ‘ Green Line ’ war boundary which has divided the capital for over a year . |
| 11 | He 's been travelling up and down the country for over a quarter of a century watching the Clarets and he would n't dream of being anywhere else but on the coach to Brighton on Boxing Day . |
| 12 | He 's been playing the part in theatres up and down the country for over a year , so he 's had several first nights for this production alone . |
| 13 | The ‘ Rochester ’ method of fingerspelling with speech and lip-reading has been in use in the USA for over a hundred years ( Savage , Evans and Savage , 1981 ) . |
| 14 | The project is a pilot study to test the feasibility of computer analysis of data from the Dictionary of Business Biography , itself an ESRC-funded project which had collected the biographies of over a thousand leading English and Welsh businessmen active between 1860 and 1980 . |
| 15 | Well , there was n't much Maureen could do about this injury , but the wound did heal up nicely and she cared for the bird for over a year . |
| 16 | When he finally reached Marseilles , he expected to find the fleet of over a hundred ships which he had commissioned in advance . |
| 17 | These three decisions alone show the cutting-edge of semi-literacy winning over the high cultural standards that the BBC is supposed to stand for , and indeed the justification — the only one — for the subvention of over a billion pounds a year from the British taxpayer . |
| 18 | House prices have been adjusting downwards in the South-east for over a year . |
| 19 | This is indeed what happened although he held the office for over a year until the seat was found for him in 1877 . |
| 20 | We have had six products on the market for over a year . |
| 21 | The shop has been on the market for over a year , and I have been unable to find a buyer . |
| 22 | Interrogated by a Commons committee , he failed to answer questions ‘ clearly and ingenuously ’ and was suspended from the House for over a year . |
| 23 | Stevie left the car outside the house with over a quarter of petrol . |
| 24 | So dramatic , indeed , has been the impact of privatization and contracting out of services , and of other local government changes , that a reduction of over a third in the total number of local authority employees over the next five years has been predicted by one senior official ( Davies , 1988 ) . |
| 25 | yeah , I could n't believe it I mean you go back five years he 'd never done things like that , he erm , missed the most easiest reds and left it right over the pocket and then Stephen Hendry went on and cleared up the whole frame , got a break of over a hundred |
| 26 | After 1976 there was a massive decline in manufacturing as a whole with a fall of over a third in total manufacturing jobs in the region between 1976 and 1984 . |
| 27 | A group of over a hundred supporters sang songs in honour of them : ‘ Mandela , you are like no other man ’ , they sang . |
| 28 | There followed a period of over a year when Karl moved aimlessly through a succession of jobs . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , once the initial silting has taken place , the weathering of the ditch is very slow , and such experiments need to run for a period of over a hundred years to gain the maximum results . |
| 30 | I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems . |