Example sentences of "much over " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you say , I wo n't be around much over the next few weeks anyway . ’ |
| 2 | But I remember too that it was always unwise to fuss too much over what was taken for then she becomes anxious herself and her throat seizes up and nothing can go down … oh , sir , she seems very ill . ’ |
| 3 | Yet he was often in danger of winning the $55,000 ( £31,250 ) first prize until he found it just too much over the last few miles . |
| 4 | single mothers increased almost as much over this period — by 77 per cent . |
| 5 | But drinking too much over a period of months or years damages far more than the nervous system . |
| 6 | Compare this to a putting address position in still conditions where the ball would be opposite to the left heel and the body not so much over the ball ( photo above ) . |
| 7 | IT 'S a little unfair to pillory Norman Lamont so much over his credit card bill . |
| 8 | And the mistress , much older by all appearances than her husband , who fussed too much over that great big daughter . |
| 9 | This sent them on their way without having to trouble too much over casting about for tracks . |
| 10 | Since rising retirement rates among elderly people have been one of the striking developments in labour market behaviour this century , it seems appropriate to begin by looking at the reasons why the employment status of the elderly population has changed so much over time , and the consequences of this change . |
| 11 | Both the Emperor Marcian and his wife Pulcheria played an active part in the meetings : Marcian and Leo found themselves at loggerheads not so much over the dogmatic formulation as over the disciplinary canons that were appended . |
| 12 | I 've learnt that much over the years . ’ |
| 13 | Your investigators now will not only have to keep to the law but they will have to obey regulations as well , or only occasionally and with their eye very much over their shoulder slide past them . |
| 14 | As had become customary in times of financial uncertainty , Nik Powell took it upon himself to ‘ sort out ’ the accounts , as he had sorted out so much over the years , from feuding gangs in Bold Street to disputative bank managers . |
| 15 | ‘ Scottish , ’ he corrected automatically , and wondered why English accents made him feel inferior , though it did n't seem to matter so much over here , there were fewer of them . |
| 16 | The the particular point that that I wish to pick up on though was from M Mr Curtis and his reference to erm the draft P P G thirteen , and whilst I 'd say that the point of the H B F that it 's only a draft publication at this stage , there 's in my view been too mu much over reliance on the reference in there to self containment , you see if we look at that particular paragraph , two point one two , it actually says avoid the development of small new settlements which are not to , sorry , I 'll start that again , avoid the development of small new settlements which are not be likely to be well served by public transport , or which will not be largely self contained . |
| 17 | However , this pretty , ignorant and idiotic slave was also required to exercise mastery ; not so much over the children , whose lord was once again the pater familias , as over the servants , whose presence distinguished the bourgeois from his social inferiors . |
| 18 | Hour after hour the legions marched past , walking as much over each others ' bodies as over the ground , while I waited for the queen . |
| 19 | So long as we do n't confuse faction with history , perhaps we should n't agonise too much over such matters . |
| 20 | The young lady is talking as if she 's a member of the family because she 's paying so much over there . |
| 21 | so there was n't too much over capacity . |
| 22 | To show how safe services are in the hands of this government , you only have to study John Major 's speech to the Society of County Treasurers at his Annual Dinner in London last December and I quote , together we have achieved much over the last decade to improve the services we provide for the people we serve and the environment in which they live , unquote . |
| 23 | On a more serious note , has chemistry changed as a subject very much over the last , dare I say , twenty five years ? |
| 24 | Again it 's doubtful they 'll be ready to sign anything on that er I think also the shadow of Lithuania is very much over this and Mr Bush is obviously not wishing to er box himself into a corner at this stage while the Lithuania crisis is still open . |