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

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1 The European Communities ( EC ) announced grant aid for Ethiopia worth $387,000,000 over the next five years , to be directed towards rural development and small-scale industry and agriculture , with the emphasis on the private sector .
2 THERE is a good deal of embarrassment in Paris over l'affaire de la Musee Jacquemart-Andre .
3 Hyperbolic functions are commonly used in kinetics : eg , the speed of waves in water over a shallow bottom is given by : V ² = 1.8 L th ( 6.3 d / L ) where V is velocity in knots and L is the wavelength in feet .
4 Chronology is one of the cornerstones of geomorphology , and researchers are urged to balance their studies of present geomorphic processes by an appreciation of rates of work over timescales of 10 4 — 10 6 years .
5 The figures in Table 5.1 are from cross-sectional data , obtained in 1980 , and could therefore be misleading as indicators of changes in households over time .
6 LASMO , as operator , in equal partnership with the C.Itoh Exploration Company of Japan , has executed a Heads of Agreement with PetroVietnam over Block 04–2 , a 2,540 sq km area offshore Southern Vietnam .
7 Pour a sloppy mix of plaster of Paris over the damaged area to form a new key
8 I put it in the barn in a seed tray with a piece of glass on top over the winter and the whole lot came up .
9 Therefore , Piaroa boys are not constrained into learning the aggressive stance of young warriors to fight men of this world ; they do not learn to accept the dominance relationships of groups of men over other groups of men .
10 The obtaining of access and maintenance of rights of way over Pennine moorlands , particularly in the Peak District , was fundamental to their activities .
11 After 1870 industrialization and urbanization entered a new phase , which economic historians have designated the second industrial revolution to distinguish it from the coming of industry to Britain over a century earlier .
12 Despite a run of small harvests , the cellars in Reims and Épernay were brimming , and it was estimated that had sales maintained their 1932 level , the Champagne houses possessed sufficient stock in hand to tide over sales for the next thirty-three years .
13 One company in the food processing and distribution market claimed that it experienced a 50% reduction in absenteeism from 8% to 4% over a three year period .
14 Even when age of acquisition and age at time of test are controlled there is a consistent gap in favour of production over comprehension of BSL for groups of signers with average six , 12 and 20 years ' experience ( Kyle , Woll and Llewellyn-Jones , 1981 ) .
15 Gradually the sound came closer until it was bellowing overhead , hurling its echo from mountain to mountain over the valley .
16 The talks were set up after Virgin won a High Court libel action in London against BA over alleged ‘ dirty tricks ’ damaging Virgin 's reputation .
17 Black ( 1982 ) related changes in net fixed investment to changes in GDP over the previous three years .
18 Ranging from Zeppelins over Tipton to Valiants over Gaydon , it is the second offering from the Midland Warplane Museum , currently based at Hatton Craft Centre near Long Marston airfield .
19 It expects to get venture funding of $2m to $4m over the summer when it will start shipping .
20 If one simply looks at the level of unemployment amongst architects over time , it is difficult to identify a clear pattern linked to any of the regulatory reforms .
21 Residuals can tell us about the general level of variability of data over and above that accounted for by the fit ; we can judge atypical behaviour against this variability , as measured , for example , by the midspread of the residuals .
22 In this kind of evaluation of change over time , it is argued that it is easier to attribute changes directly to the planned intervention , since it is unlikely that other experiences to which the child might be exposed would produce the same pattern of differential progress across different aspects of language .
23 Proceeding with due caution therefore , we can ask : what do we know about patterns of support between kin over the past two centuries ?
24 Looking at the story of food in Africa over the last two decades is a depressing business .
25 There followed two hours of arguments between protestors over what they should accept as sufficient for leaving .
26 But consumption does not directly create capital assets whether financed internally or externally , and investment levels in most countries have not risen significantly as a proportion of GDP in Africa over the last twenty years , and reMain 6 or 7 per cent lower than in both the rest of the developing world and in the industrialized world .
27 In terms of regional structural controls most of the auriferous deposits in the project area are spatially related to first-order faults and shear zones within the belt and along its margins ; to major anticlinal fold axial traces and limb shears ; or to the fracture envelopes around the major granitoid intrusions Follow-up geochemical field testing of soils for arsenic over selected targets outside the known gold mining districts was 60–70% successful in demonstrating that certain predicted structural settings would be mineralised .
28 Some of these richer families in the village were becoming entrepreneurial , while others still clung to the exercise of power through control over land .
29 UN in battle of wills with Serbs over relief convoys
30 He added traders would be questioned on the effects of pedestrianisation on business over coming months .
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