Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be that as it may , Arnold 's and Van Praagh 's schools laid the foundations for over a century of controversy and the beginning of the end of sign-language-dominated educational systems . |
| 2 | Consider then this year 's winner , the Mayan Indian peace-worker , Rigoberta Menchu , who has campaigned for the rights of Guatemala 's oppressed indigenous majority for over a decade . |
| 3 | The reptiles underwent tremendous changes in their skeletal structure , their jaws and their teeth during over their history of more than two hundred million years , some of the predators developing razor sharp rows of fangs , other herbivores losing their teeth and acquiring beak-like jaws . |
| 4 | In fact the cost of physical imports has exceeded the value of exported products for over a century . |
| 5 | Its first head , I.M. Viskovaty , and his successors for over a century , were bureaucrats ( dyaki ) ; not until 1667 was it led by a boyar , a nobleman of the highest rank . |
| 6 | The poll-tax , a fixed annual levy placed on all tax-paying males regardless of age , together with the rent imposed on state peasants , formed the basis of state revenue for over a century . |
| 7 | Earlier Mr Justice Holland told her she was ‘ fundamentally wicked for plotting murder for over a month . |
| 8 | It struck me one day , walking through the busy market near her home , that I had n't thought about my weight for over a month , that I had been eating without really worrying about it , and that all sorts of desires were surfacing — that the protective layer of my obsession was peeling away . |
| 9 | Brown remained her adviser for over a decade , although she also sought occasional assistance from the painter ( Sir ) Edward Burne-Jones [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | They 're one point eight G L Estate F reg , four thousand , two hundred , that 's A B C D E , five year 's difference , done four thousand , two hundred , two , eight hundred quid , well actually it 's , our cars worth over a grand if I 'd sprayed it up and put it on the market |
| 11 | The spillover effect of safety demands on costs , coupled with an economic recession , had effectively resulted in no new nuclear stations being ordered in the United States for over a decade . |
| 12 | He might have told her that in the United States for over a decade now , the journals and magazines and guide-to-life books , aided and abetted by manufacturers , traders , and advertisers , had sung the song of the perfect home and the perfect homemaker . |
| 13 | Plans are far from fixed , but the replacement could be be Hewlett-Packard Co 's PA RISC , since the Japanese firm has already reportedly pledged to buy $80m worth over the next three or four years . |
| 14 | Situated in an ideal position on the front a Bellagio , the Du Lac has been a favourite with our clients for over a decade . |
| 15 | The traffic moves at a fast pace and averaging a speed of over one hundred kilometres an hour is not difficult . |
| 16 | Building and civil engineering experienced virtually a 50 per cent reduction , whilst even the clothing industry suffered the loss of over one-third of its pre-war workforce . |
| 17 | Oracle Corp says that its Oracle7 Co-operative Server database is now up on Apple Computer Inc 's Workgroup Server 95 running A/UX , Apple 's implementation of Unix , adding that the product is the result of over one year of joint development work between Oracle and Apple . |
| 18 | Oracle Corp says that its Oracle7 Co-operative Server database is now up on Apple Computer Inc 's Workgroup Server 95 running A/UX , Apple 's implementation of Unix , adding that the product is the result of over one year of joint development work between Oracle and Apple . |
| 19 | With a turnover of over stlg13m it 's quite a small profit margin for any business to be making but I could still do with tickets being half the price they are . |
| 20 | Government officials announced that spending would be cut by 15 per cent and civil service recruitment by 40 per cent , with consequent savings of over KSh600,000,000 . |
| 21 | Psychiatrists envisaged that curare might be useful in relieving muscular tension and so diminish the feedback from over active muscles which perpetuates a sense of anxiety in tense patients . |
| 22 | The light from over there , ’ she said , nodding in the direction of the window , ‘ that 's in gravity , but it 's not being pulled down or anything . ’ |
| 23 | The earl had successfully held minor raids near Carlisle , apparently launched to sound out the defences of the western march , and at Berwick the garrison , with the help of George Dunbar , that angry refugee from over the border , poacher turned forester , had decisively defeated a party of four hundred Scots . |
| 24 | The other priests also stood and removed the cowls from over their heads . |
| 25 | Immediately Nathan pulled her cardigan from over her arm and draped it around her shoulders . |
| 26 | The union fights for he says , and the union 's a but I 'm one of these employers who paying them , my men a plus rate , so I 'm paying men sixpence plus over the normal rate so there was no difficulty there . |
| 27 | He was , perhaps , less than worthy of his literary immortality : in 1800 the vicar of Over Stowey , having been cheated in a deal over some turf , called him ‘ as rascally faced fellow as ever I met with ’ . |
| 28 | However , there were a few outliers with values of over 0.4% , and so marking to the market occasionally had an important effect on arbitrage profits . |
| 29 | Jonathan Mann , director of the World Health Organization 's global programme on AIDS , which he founded in 1986 and which had an annual budget of over US$100,000,000 , announced his resignation on March 16 , citing disagreements with the WHO Director-General , Hiroshi Nakajima . |
| 30 | Yeah , well he does get a bit of over the top |