Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] over " in BNC.

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1 The data are then being used to display trends in the variations between authorities over the period 1975/76 to 1983/84 .
2 The preference for ideology over aesthetics , however , was a marked characteristic of the contributions of Zhdanov and Radek at the 1934 Congress , and it is clear , if only from the wording of the resolutions adopted , that this approach generally carried the day .
3 This could be decisive if the company objectives stressed the need for income over that period .
4 This could be decisive if the company objectives stressed the need for income over that period .
5 In its recent report , it said that the White Paper ’ contains no hint of the Government 's financial strategy for defence over the coming decade . ’
6 ‘ I had to go up to Clapton yesterday and haggle with Antinou for hours over that bloody Egyptian cotton .
7 We can sit for hours over one cup of coffee , and watch the people going by , and look at the river , or Nôtre Dame , or the chestnut trees on the boulevards .
8 On the other hand , if a text shows a repeated preference for passives over actives , it is natural to consider this preference a feature of style .
9 The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales has told the Welsh Office that its plan to meet a near doubling of demand for aggregates over the next 20 years , will cause irrevocable harm to many areas of Wales ( 1 ) .
10 Italian firm Same-Lamborghini has done its bit for variety over the years , with a series of innovations that suggest that its research and development department gets a bigger budget than many other companies ' equivalents .
11 Here are the Angerholme Pots , all lined up for inspection over a straight half-mile .
12 THREE appeal court judges were asked to rule for the first time yesterday that parents could sue doctors for negligence over the loss of a child though the fatal injuries had been suffered before birth .
13 ‘ Private Eye ’ must wait for decision over libel retrial
14 CRESCENDO AND SYNOPTICS AIM FOR FDDI OVER UNSHIELDED TWISTED PAIR
15 The ANSI Twisted-Pair Physical Medium Dependent Working Group is expected to finalise the draft standard for FDDI over unshielded twisted pair around October time .
16 On April 3 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) approved a standby credit of 236,000,000 special drawing rights ( US$322,000,000 ) for Czechoslovakia over the next 12 months .
17 But it was n't all gloom for Cauthen over the week-end and a brilliant ride landed the Irish St Leger on Mashaallah .
18 MasPar sees the combination being used to take care of the problems created by the need for economical storage , low-speed transmission and bandwidth multiplication for applications such as video-on-demand over telephone networks , direct broadcast satellite and cable television services , optical disk and Compact Disk Karaoke .
19 These include such essentials as a preliminary sounding meeting with the head and whoever else is part of the school 's senior management ( i.e. anyone in a position to further the aims of the group ) to secure their sanction and support ; and an introductory meeting with as many of the staff as possible and manageable , for instance over a working lunch , regardless of who will eventually join the group , so that everybody knows what it will be about and interest is generated even in those who may not wish to join it .
20 But there is a whole range of other situations where the opposite move is needed , where we need to stress that people can differ from us , for instance over proposals to give all children the same kind of education or to make everybody live in the same kind of house .
21 It may involve compromises , for instance over the frequency with which comprehensive large-scale mapping data is preserved .
22 TOUGH new sanctions are being planned by the UN to force Libya to surrender the two men wanted for trial over the Lockerbie bombing .
23 It might be expected that where such clonal growth is possible , the struggle for existence over long periods of stable management would lead to the local dominance of single clones — those that had succeeded in a struggle for existence with others .
24 It has to do with short-term planning and public accounting systems , which mean that , although money can in theory be voted for projects over a number of years , in practice , it usually arrives in annual dribs and drabs .
25 De Gaulle had made of France 's relations with the United States and the rest of NATO , what Ceauşescu seemed to do for Romania over the next decade within the Warsaw pact .
26 Some of us are puzzled by this phenomenon , because it seems incompatible with another idea we cherish , which is that people must not be blamed for acts over which they had no control , nor held responsible for unfair gains when they have gained nothing themselves .
27 The US Congress is expected to raise the Mexican government 's patchy environmental record during discussions over proposed free trade agreements .
28 This argument was to be repeated in succeeding years during discussions over reform of the international monetary system , in which the United States consistently held that balance of payments targets should be defined in terms of current and capital account combined .
29 If he is to persuade his colleagues that he can win for the party , he will need to seize every available chance for exposure over the next two , three , or even four years .
30 The birth of commercial television in the early fifties was a victory for money over breeding , of corporate power over paternalism .
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