Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] over the " in BNC.
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| 31 | In a report to the schools subcommittee , director of education Keith Mitchell said more than £1m was available for the development of nursery schools over the next two years . |
| 32 | With the opening of the East German border in November 1989 the flow of refugees from East Germany ( Übersiedler ) increased still further and created serious social problems [ for easing of travel restrictions over the border between Hungary and Austria see pp. 36894-95 ; 37170 ] . |
| 33 | Ballysillan Leisure Centre has had to spend over £2 , out of a budget already pared to the bone repairing windows smashed in a spate of weekend attacks over the past month . |
| 34 | This national dairy breed was formed during the 1960s by the amalgamation of several red or red-and-white types after a gradual series of breed absorptions over the last 40 or 50 years . |
| 35 | Some of the most serious allegations of child torture concerned South Africa , where Koojimaans reported that " 80 to 90 per cent of children detained under State of Emergency regulations over the past five years had alleged being tortured in detention " . |
| 36 | It may be that the Minoans enjoyed the social and diplomatic aspects of long-drawn-out negotiations over the price of a cargo with Egyptian , Cypriot , or Trojan merchants . |
| 37 | Urban issues are to be understood in terms of class conflicts over the character and extent of reproduction through collective consumption in the form of the provision of urban services and facilities , particularly housing . |
| 38 | Kloof , benefiting from a higher gold yield , lifted net profits R4.77m to R97.7m , despite production losses over the December–January holiday period and a fall in the tonnage of ore milled . |
| 39 | The demand for money is also influenced by expectations of price changes and the levels of interest rates over the longer term . |
| 40 | We have also been impressed by the independent influence of family relationships over the generations , an approach which has been brought home to us through discussion with family therapists . |
| 41 | ( 1983 ) have argued that maps based on the European Air Chemistry Network may be misleading in several respects , such as in failing adequately to show the pattern of time variations over the years or the large degree of uncertainty attaching to individual contours , and assuming a geographical homogeneity which is not borne out by detailed calculations with data taken from adjacent sites . |
| 42 | A total of 62% of firms said they expected to lose clients through business failures over the next 12 months , the largest area of concern ; 54% named cash flow as an area of concern , while 47% named staff overheads and 38% property overheads . |
| 43 | Mrs Castle opens her account with a few reflections on the ‘ feminine ’ touch Edward Heath had brought to the redecoration of Chequers and some bitter-sweet memories of 1969 , when she and Wilson had clashed there with trade-union leaders over the In Place of Strife proposals for union reform . |
| 44 | Because of the difficulty in placing a trolley wheel on the wire during the blackout and the risk of knocking passengers ' hats off or worse , when pulling the pole down , or the risk of a broken spring inside the trolley mast , one of the J Type cars was fitted with metal hoops over the ends of the upper deck in August 1916 . |
| 45 | A number of meetings have been held with District Councils over the period of the preparation of the plan . |
| 46 | This lock is the uppermost of the mechanized locks and like those below , has a brick control tower and a gantry with traffic lights over the lock chamber . |
| 47 | His employer gave him a glowing reference and spoke about him to a friend by the name of Sir Algernon Clark , a fellow businessman who was having problems with insurance brokers over the size of the premium for insuring his wharf and its most valuable contents . |
| 48 | Export figures for January-October 1990 were US$1,216 million , with import figures over the same period at $1,713 million , giving a trade deficit of $497 million . |
| 49 | ROYAL aides have had talks with health officials over the higher-than-average level of cancer-causing radon gas — revealed by our sister paper the Sunday Mirror — in the Balmoral area . |
| 50 | Mrs Snelling , who was engaged in a power struggle with school governors over the control of her opted-out school , received her OBE , but declined to comment on her award . |
| 51 | Dr Horn 's assessment is that by the 1790s the southern farm labourer 's standard of living had been falling for thirty years , and that an increase of around 85 per cent in money wages over the war years kept it just about level up to 1815 . |
| 52 | The October 1990 rate cut was anticipated for some time in advance by the gilt market which bought gilts and drove up gilt prices ( see Fig. 17.3 ) , as was the continued fall in base rates over the next two years . |
| 53 | The data does not include common land and it has had to be standardised to overcome changes in category definitions over the years . |
| 54 | In keeping with that statement growth in undergraduate numbers over the past few years has been less than 1 per cent a year . |
| 55 | Are you aware of any significant changes in council policies over the past five years ? |
| 56 | A further problem with this aspect of the analysis is the changes in exchange rates over the period of the study . |
| 57 | What I have noted within rugby circles over the years is , rather , a strong tendency towards small-mindedness and chauvinism , which continues unabated . |
| 58 | Dilnot and Kell felt that any ‘ incentive ’ effect which may have been present could only account , at most , for 1.2bn or 3% of the total increase in tax revenues over the period studied . |
| 59 | Which ? has deduced from safety inspections over the past six years that models from Audi/VW , Saab , Vauxhall and Volvo are ‘ clear leaders , showing an across-the-range application of thoughtful protective safety and design ’ . |
| 60 | The trust , a capital-growth specialist in Far Eastern investment , excluding Japan , lifted its NAV from 26.26p at the year-end to 36.44p in the six months to 31 January , easily beating the performance of the comparable benchmark , the FT Actuaries Pacific Basin ex-Japan Index , which rose by 20.1 per cent in sterling terms over the same period . |