Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | In fact the cost of physical imports has exceeded the value of exported products for over a century . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Situated in an ideal position on the front a Bellagio , the Du Lac has been a favourite with our clients for over a decade . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The other priests also stood and removed the cowls from over their heads . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
| 11 | She put the money in her purse with a reverence shown only by people who rarely , if ever , had handled notes of over one pound denomination . |
| 12 | Working from the artists ' chance selections , Heinrichsmeyer created geometric paintings resembling those of the De Stijl group , which he in turn transposed onto the planar surfaces of over one hundred cubic armchairs . |
| 13 | These gothic ruins behind the council offices in Abingdon have been deceiving visitors for over a century . |
| 14 | The interest in nuclear processes has occupied tens of thousands of scientists and engineers for over a generation . |
| 15 | New legislation approved by the Senate on July 4 decreed that from July 8 all cash transactions of over L20,000,000 ( about US$15,000 ) had to be made through recognized intermediaries . |
| 16 | As a result , it is now possible to consider the stylistic affinities of over one hundred mosaics within a basic chronological context . |
| 17 | Leonard argued the case through the columns of Over the Hills for Spring 1930 , in reforming ignorance of the emerging Nazi appropriation of the Germanic pastoral dream : |
| 18 | The Camperdown was cut in half — sank quickly with a resulting loss of the lives of over one thousand men including the stubborn Admiral . |
| 19 | from BNFL 's films , Video and Advertising section also collected an Award of Excellence at the awards for Over The Fells , a video which promotes the attractions of West Cumbria and the Sellafield Visitors Centre . |
| 20 | To meet the needs of over one million customers , British Gas South Western offers employee training which is second to none . |
| 21 | Second , the 1965 US " voluntary restraint programme " ( made mandatory in 1968 ) imposed limits on outward direct investment ( unless US multinationals could show offsetting balance of payments earnings ) , and discouraged loans by US banks of over one year to international borrowers including subsidiaries of US multinationals . |
| 22 | He commented : ‘ We were woken up with a jolt when we found out that Spinneys were going to be bought out by some ‘ jocks from over the border ’ . |
| 23 | Resources of over US$352,000,000 would be used for purposes including religious schooling and combating corruption . |
| 24 | You know what I mean : people expect you to talk about dark strangers from over the water and golden fortunes coming their way . |
| 25 | The fringe flapped in the little wind , and eddies from over the field brought the resinous warmth of the dying fires and another powdering of silvery ash mixed with charcoal . |
| 26 | After all , if you can borrow ( or exchange your existing UK mortgage where you are paying rates at the highest level in real terms for over a century ) for a Swiss franc mortgage at around 9.5 per cent , a mark mortgage at just under 10 per cent , an Ecu mortgage ( Ecu is the European currency unit which is made up of a ‘ basket ’ of 10 currencies including sterling ) at about 10 per cent or a Japanese yen mortgage at just under 8 per cent , why not do so ? |
| 27 | On current spending education was essentially stabilised in real volume terms for over a decade , and the rates of growth in health and personal social services slowed down or ceased for some periods . |
| 28 | Cells fitted with diamond windows have been operated at pressures of over one million atmospheres at the Carnegie Institute in Washington . |
| 29 | By using 64-bit data transfer rates , the system can achieve rates of over 40Mbps on the VME bus . |
| 30 | Belgium , Denmark , France , Ireland and Italy all have growth rates of over 1 per cent. , Spain , Portugal and Holland over 2 per cent. , and Germany and Luxembourg over 3 per cent . |