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

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1 You have to look at quality of earnings over the next decade , not over the next year .
2 ‘ I had to go up to Clapton yesterday and haggle with Antinou for hours over that bloody Egyptian cotton .
3 The increasing numbers of colleges approaching the CNAA had to do in part with difficulties over validation by universities — particularly those which were unwilling or reluctant to validate honours degrees — and in part with the attraction of the CNAA as a validating body which could consider a range of courses , including those in the areas of proposed diversification .
4 The supply of labour can be defined as the quantity of labour services ( measured in person-hours ) offered for hire by individuals over a given time period .
5 In open-ended stalls , the sows are kept in place by chains over their necks or bodies .
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