Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun pl] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And in the Jar din Massey there is a museum tracing the history of the regiment of Hussars over the five centuries since its first formation in Hungary . |
| 32 | According to the Financial Times of Oct. 18 , the formal approval by ministers of the US decision to scrap battlefield nuclear weapons had helped postpone the airing of differences over the deployment of tactical air-to-surface missiles ( TASM ) which a number of NATO 's European partners , especially Germany , were reluctant to accept [ see also pp. 36476-77 ; 37931 ; 38457-58 ] . |
| 33 | ‘ In Great Britain , the growth of numbers over the whole century ’ , wrote the Royal Commission on Population , ‘ was of the order of 50 per cent . |
| 34 | As to the enforcement of lorry weights , we have doubled the number of inspections over the past five years . |
| 35 | I hope to gradually increase the number of pages over the next few issues , if funds allow . |
| 36 | However , since there are more rape trials today than before , the reader of newspapers would find an increase in the number of reports over the years . |
| 37 | By July , the committee reported that in spite of an increase in the number of members over the last quarter , there had been a loss of trade and a decline in share capital . |
| 38 | The Worldwide Fund for Nature is , of course , just one part of a huge international Green Movement , in which we have seen massive increases in the number of supporters over the past few years . |
| 39 | Er , six bytes across the number of characters over the four characters . |
| 40 | Contributions to the schemes are charged to the profit and loss account so as to spread the cost of pensions over the employees ' working lives within the Group . |
| 41 | Contributions are charged to the profit and loss account in accordance with actuarial recommendations so as to spread the cost of pensions over the employees ' remaining working lives with the Group . |
| 42 | The remains of the Argentine dictator ( 1829-52 ) and nationalist figurehead , Juan Manuel de Rosas , who died in exile in the UK in 1877 , were returned to Argentina on Oct. 1 , 1989 , in what was apparently a gesture of goodwill in the context of talks over the Falkland Islands . |
| 43 | the spatter of freckles over the craggy nose and wide forehead , and the thatch of red hair springing under the headphones , and thought how like the boy was to his father , that redoubtable , thrice-decorated peer , whole courage was equalled only by his obstinacy and naivete . |
| 44 | For however inaccurate the figures are , their inaccuracies can not have increased sufficiently to explain the sharply deteriorating trend of the balance of payments over the last few years . |
| 45 | Prince Michael , 50 , gave the interview at the time of revelations over the state of Charles and Diana 's marriage . |
| 46 | As the peso 's purchasing power lessened , its international exchange value did not depreciate correspondingly , with the result that the value of imports over the year outpaced exports . |