Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inflation , if unchecked , can result in economic and social disorder , as conditions akin to hyper-inflation ( a thousand-fold rise in prices over a few months ) make bank savings worthless . |
| 2 | The question remains as to the optimal method of obtaining a consistent estimate of the parameter on the change term in wealth over the full sample period . |
| 3 | The decline of pre-marital pregnancy during the late nineteenth century was probably therefore less the product of adoption of middle-class values than the consequence of the felt loss of control over the consequence of heterosexual relations . |
| 4 | The multi-million pound trail of destruction over the past 12 months includes the following outrages : |
| 5 | The stock change in units over the three years : |
| 6 | This year 's profits will be used to help fund a record £1.5billion programme of investment over the next five years to cope with what is described as ‘ a phenomenal ’ growth in mail . |
| 7 | The Pacific Bell Inc arm of Pacific Telesis Group Inc does not believe that the folks across the Pacific should be the only ones to have universally available full broadband ISDN by the year 2015 , and it says it is discussing forming alliances with cable companies to help in the building of a super data highway in California over the next decade . |
| 8 | This study was designed to compare the efficacy and safety of oral fluticasone propionate with prednisolone over a four week period in the treatment of active colitis . |
| 9 | Contrary to Unix-on-the-desktop sceptics , the fastest growing sector will be the Unix PC marketplace with a revenue CAGR of 28% over the period . |
| 10 | As we saw earlier , the fact that the producing units of an industry increase in size over a number of years may be explained by the functional relation between their size and the cost of production . |
| 11 | The party 's deputy leader , Donald McKinnon , immediately resigned as defence spokesperson in protest over the volte face . |
| 12 | In the story of Job we see the adversary bargaining with God over the righteous man . |
| 13 | We estimate that 150000 men aged 60 to 74 would be required in an evaluative trial for it to have an 80% chance of showing a 20% reduction in mortality over the ensuing 10 years , significant at the 5% level . |
| 14 | Middlesbrough cricket club is to join the town 's rugby club in talks over the possible sale of the Acklam Park ground they jointly own in Green Lane , Acklam , Middlesbrough . |
| 15 | Karimov claims to have discovered a direct correlation between nuclear tests conducted at the Soviet testing site of Semipalatinsk over the years and earthquakes throughout the former Soviet Union . |
| 16 | There is now a major question mark in policy-making over the meaning of ‘ regeneration ’ and particularly over who benefits from regenerative policies . |
| 17 | Take the Bunnymen , overlay every cartoon watchword in pop over the past twenty years , and you 've got — The Mighty Lemon Drops ! |
| 18 | The small resort village of Fluelen at the end of the lake was for centuries an important lake port and customs station where goods were trans-shipped from the lake to mule transport for carriage over the Gotthard . |
| 19 | Other points to note from the Grampian survey include the continued strong performance of the Mechanical engineering sector with a 13% rise in exports over the 1989 level . |
| 20 | there were hundreds of would be champions turning up at Eastnor Park in Herefordshire over the weekend to ride in the National Mountain Bike Championships … watching them race over 30 miles our man Robin Powell |
| 21 | there were hundreds of would be champions turning up at Eastnor Park in Herefordshire over the weekend to ride in the National Mountain Bike Championships … watching them race over 30 miles our man Robin Powell |
| 22 | Scientist Tom Clarkson said that there was a 50-60 percent loss of ozone over the Antarctic during the southern spring ( from September to November ) . |
| 23 | The idea of an evening get-together for clients over a couple of drinks in the Branch is obviously a non-Banker concept . |
| 24 | Sale et al. ( 1975 ) interviewed a random general population sample of females over the age of 15 in Hobart , Tasmania , and found that overdoses and self-injuries were regarded as potentially lethal in most cases . |
| 25 | It follows a very sensible line which makes good use of the existing paths along Dere Street and the Minchmoor , the drove road from Peebles over the Cauldstane Slap to the Lothian plain , the towpaths of the Union and the Forth-Clyde canals , and the Antonine Wall . |
| 26 | " The Meeting Considering that the Island is in a backward state of Cultivation , have Resolved as an Improvement that each occupier of a 4d. land in Tillage over the whole Island shall sow in the ensuing Spring 2 pecks of Peas & Beans , and for enabling them to have proper Seed they now request that Shawfield will take the trouble of sending a Cargo of Peas & Beans to the Island in proper time … " |
| 27 | First we examine the trends in population structure in Britain over the last century and the forecasts for the early decades of the next millennium . |
| 28 | The government , says Roith , should take some of the credit for the growth in computer literacy in Britain over the past half a decade . |
| 29 | Reports in early April , covering the Rao-Wickremasingh meeting , noted the Indian government 's desire to bring LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran to justice over the May 1991 assassination of Rajiv Gandhi [ see p. 38175 ] ( although no specific request had been made to Sri Lanka ) , and the claim that the LTTE planned a further series of assassinations in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu to counter the state government 's clampdown on its activities there . |
| 30 | Holidays can make a big hole in your savings so we offer a 5% discount for clients over the age of 60 on the date of departure . |