Example sentences of "a lot of [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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1 | There 's been a lot of concern over the past few months of the rate of increase in unemployment within the Harrogate District and how as a percentage unemployment has increased in the Harrogate District rather than other districts . |
2 | It 's given miners a lot of service over the years and eased a lot of the er distress of the at work . |
3 | Having cost the University of Bristol a lot of money over the previous months , I thought I ought to try to put something back , so I got myself sponsored : part of the money was to go to the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council , and half to the newly-formed Bristol University Arthritis Research Group . |
4 | All of those extra sums , if you total them up , we 're talking about quite a lot of money over the budget and that 's why I 'm getting concerned because there seems to be some between what the budget said we were going to do and what a chairman here and a chairman there has agreed , and I I 'd like to get it back onto position . |
5 | so providing they just play it steadily they should be alright , there 's a lot of discrimination over the Australian defeat in the paper , they reckon that if erm |
6 | from Gladstone and Gannon , and er he gave an awful lot of people at the S U and at Alcuin J C R a lot of grief over the provost , who then wrote them a letter saying I , Jim am the fault of all this and just generally made the students look even dafter for |
7 | I have had a lot of pleasure over the years keeping and breeding tropical fish , and cichlids in particular . |
8 | but then her anger seemed to have woken her and she continued , ‘ I know you went to a lot of trouble over the meal , but my brother 's sexual proclivities are n't any of your business , or mine either . ’ |
9 | She appeared to have gone to quite a lot of trouble over the meal , Although , at that time , rationing was still in force , she produced pâté , a savoury mince , a surprisingly light lemon soufflé and a passable bottle of claret . |
10 | The school 's curriculum manager and acting vice-principal , Phil Dean , said there was a lot of uncertainty over the new number seven overlapping the old C and D grades . |