Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senior Planning Officer , Andrew Lewis says that after various planning applications over the past two years which were turned down , due to objections from local residents , the latest plans have now been cleared , regarding the extension and the feelings of the local residents . |
| 2 | Economists estimated that the rate of inflation had increased to 20 per cent during fiscal 1989 , an increase of 1.5 percentage points over the previous year . |
| 3 | The Deserted Medieval Village Research Group ( now the Medieval Villages Research Group ) , which was formed in 1952 as a multi-disciplinary research body , drawing in geographers , historians , and archaeologists as well as natural scientists , has revolutionised our concepts of rural settlement changes over the last 2000 years . |
| 4 | Specimen jar of sea water in hand , she cheerfully highlighted the embarrassing prospect of European Court prosecutions over the pollution of nearby pleasure beaches . |
| 5 | The company , which has developed its own original style of popular mask theatre over the past decade , can be seen at Darlington Arts Centre on Thursday , followed by Stockton 's Dovecot Arts Centre on Thursday and Friday . |
| 6 | It may mean also that strikes are openly directed against state policy as much as against management 's negotiating position , as with the French public sector strike in the mid-1960s against government fixing of the total wage bill ( Dubois 1975 : 114–15 ) , or the wave of public sector conflicts over the Spanish government 's wage control and restructuring policies in early 1987 . |
| 7 | Taylor ( 1964 ) in particular noted that the distribution of GSRs over distance travelled corresponded very closely to the distribution of actual accident figures over the same distance . |
| 8 | THE All England Club has been cleared of unfair trading practices over the sale of Wimbledon tickets . |
| 9 | This run of Tory election victories over the 1950s prompted the speculation at the time that the Tories had managed to establish themselves as the ‘ natural party of government ’ . |
| 10 | Despite increased teaching loads over the past three years , the School , as a whole , has very substantially increased its research funding and its research output , over the 3–4 year period of assessment . |
| 11 | Public administration and management in central government has stood up to these strains , but the weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the last 25 years . |
| 12 | The weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the past 25 years . " |
| 13 | In addition to implicating members of the Japanese establishment and of the Finance Ministry , the scandal also threatened to imperil Kaifu 's plans for constitutional reform , and highlighted the lack of effective government supervision over the securities industry . |
| 14 | For lighting large areas , you may instead find it preferable to ‘ warm up ’ the daylight by taping sheets of orange filter material over the windows . |
| 15 | If you are laying new insulation , take the opportunity to put down a vapour barrier of heavy-duty polythene sheeting over the loft floor first , if the plasterboard has no foil face . |
| 16 | Given the behaviour of fixed-interest security prices over the period , this may reflect a desire to hold such stock mainly for its capital gain potential . |
| 17 | Two elasticated loops , made of shirring elastic or similar — but certainly not tight across the inner eyelets — are used to retain the zig-zag of folded shroud lines over the shoulder risers . |
| 18 | All journals except Cell and Nature showed a trend towards increasing authorship numbers over the study period . |
| 19 | This would explain the pre-eminence of various investment banks over the years and the inability of many new entrants to gain profitability . |
| 20 | On the morning of the election , the nearest of all the major opinion polls to a correct result was Gallup in The Daily Telegraph , which put the Tories half a point ahead of Labour ( 38½ per cent to 38 per cent , a change-round of one percentage point over the course of the preceding week ) . |
| 21 | For the effect of closure in terms of intergenerational movement is to provide for the reproduction of common life experiences over the generations . ’ |
| 22 | However , this system was devised primarily as a means of internal management control over the business sectors , rather than as a guide to the allocation of the PSO grant . |
| 23 | Demographic and migration trends indicated that the rate of new household formation over the period of the structure plan ( i.e. until the mid-1990s ) was expected to be half of the post-war average levels and total population was likely to fall . |
| 24 | Penal reform groups have a long and honourable history and have played an important part in the development of criminal justice policy over the years . |
| 25 | In addition to our aim of forecasting the course of Wirral 's heroin ‘ epidemic ’ , the second multi-agency enumeration survey also allowed us to investigate whether there had been any changes in the social and drug-using characteristics of known heroin users over the two years of research . |
| 26 | Next stick strips of low-tack masking tape over the areas of background colour that you want to remain . |
| 27 | So dramatic , indeed , has been the impact of privatization and contracting out of services , and of other local government changes , that a reduction of over a third in the total number of local authority employees over the next five years has been predicted by one senior official ( Davies , 1988 ) . |
| 28 | In proportionate terms this represents an increase from 15 per cent to 24 per cent of all defendants who were proceeded against for either way offences over the same period ( Home Office , 1990 : Table 4.5 , 1990f : Table 6.3 ) . |
| 29 | Cargo forecasts suggest that a growth rate of 11.4 percent for Europe-Far East trade over the next 20 years will be more than double the expected increase across the North Atlantic . |
| 30 | Water was poured into large clay pots over the plant material ( usually cedarwood ) and the pot openings were covered in woollen fibres . |