Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The profile would usually be the number of qualified and unqualified staff required for each span of duty over a 24-hour period . |
| 2 | And there 'll be playing for civic pride in Hereford over the coming week … more than a thousand sports men and women from Cheltenham , Worcester and Hereford are competing in 21 different sports in the annual ’ Sport for All ’ festival . |
| 3 | Harmonic schemes on a larger scale , spanning large movements or in successions of movements , also require planning , for some change of key over a large area is needed to create contrast and relief . |
| 4 | I 'm at the moment chairing a university working party on sexual harassment erm and what this working party erm intends to do is to try to survey experience gathered from the operation of codes and the appointment of people in college with a special responsibility for this sort of thing over the past few years , to see what we can learn from experience , so I 'd want to reserve judgement at the moment on what this committee might recommend is the best way forwards . |
| 5 | The first signs of political discontent in England over the conduct of the war surfaced in the parliament of February 1371 , when the commons refused to grant a subsidy until the king 's clerical ministers of state had been replaced by laymen who , unlike their clerical counterparts , would be liable to answer for their misdeeds in the royal courts . |
| 6 | Maintenance of information in verbal memory is based on sub-vocal rehearsal of material held in a fading phonological store and it has been suggested that maintenance of spatial information in memory over short periods is also carried out by an active control process based on a response system . |
| 7 | They favoured ZOPFAN as the kind of indigenous initiative they had hoped to stimulate under the umbrella notion of collective security , but in the absence of clear agreement in ASEAN over neutralisation they were loath to become committed to a proposal which could be turned against themselves . |
| 8 | By contrast , radical elite theory attacks pluralism ( and democratic elitism as well ) for disguising the degree to which existing arrangements do not implement feasible ideals of direct control by citizens over decisions affecting their lives . |
| 9 | ( 1989 ) examined the impact of smoking status on mortality over a 17-year period for 60- to 94-year-olds included in the Alameda County study in the United States . |
| 10 | First , the payment of this sum of money over a short period would have a considerable inflationary effect . |
| 11 | I have experience of this class of case over a period of more than fifty years and it has n't been uncommon in the past even in the days when judges took a more rigorous view than they cline er inclined to do nowadays not to punish er in any with a custodial |
| 12 | Oil is the most versatile , flexible and valuable of the primary fuels and part of the process of improved use of energy over the past decade has been for users to switch to other fuels to generate heat , thus saving oil for the transportation and speciality uses for which there are no cost effective substitutes . |
| 13 | The first report to investigate the projected effects of global warming on Britain over the next 40 years has been released by the Department of the Environment . |
| 14 | So while you can talk about the expansion of federal powers and the dominance of the national government in certain areas , it is but nothing compared to the dominance of central government in Britain over , over local government . |
| 15 | Above all , despite frequent irritation with Helen over trivial expenses and her unbusinesslike attitude to her wages , he relied heavily on her temper , ‘ her genius for joy ’ , to help him break free of these moods . |
| 16 | The majority of other types of skin cancer are the result of continued exposure to sunlight over a long period of time . |
| 17 | Clinton 's chief henchman , Venner , was an amiable enough fellow but his conversation revolved around bear and cock fighting and the virtues of one breed of horse over another . |
| 18 | The dazzle effect of grids can be subdued by establishing a hierarchy of one set of parallels over another . |
| 19 | THE STORY of vertebrate life in Britain over the past 2 million years or so is fascinating . |
| 20 | On the issue of pre-1935 appeasement of Mussolini over Abyssinia he quotes from L. S. Amery 's ‘ diary ’ , which is referred to in a footnote as My Political Life , vol. 3 ( 1955 ) and also refers to two other accounts of the same events in Viscount Templewood 's Nine Troubled Years , pt. 2 ( 1954 ) , and Sir Anthony Eden 's Facing the Dictators ( 1962 ) . |
| 21 | Situated in 200 acres of level meadowland with views over open countryside towards Cheddar Gorge . |
| 22 | This information may help to give an impression of the severity of the child 's difficulties , with respect to the areas of language sampled in the test , and an indication of any change in performance over time . |
| 23 | Studies of internal friction of polystyrene over a temperature range from near absolute zero to 200°C or more show four distinct " peaks " or regions of energy absorption . |
| 24 | Given the number of prominent cases of judicial error in Britain over the past few years — Guildford Four , Birmingham Six , Stefan Kiszcko , the Tottenham Three and Judith Ward — it is not an abstract question . |
| 25 | 2 In spite of the enormous flow of creative production by women over the last 20 years or so , much of it is still little known outside ‘ feminist art ’ circles . |
| 26 | The acute shortages of public funds for basic education in Zambia over the past decade have led to an increasing reliance on external aid to finance educational initiatives . |
| 27 | Granville Again , an unlucky faller when poised to deliver his challenge in the race 12 months ago , has been off the track since he finished eight lengths third behind Mighty Mogul at Kempton over Christmas . |
| 28 | It shows the decline in economic activity by men over school leaving age from 88% in 1951 to 77% in 1981 . |
| 29 | More than 130 people , mostly Egyptian militants and police , have died in political violence in Egypt over the last 14 months . |
| 30 | To understand the significance of these most recent changes , it is first necessary to review the main trends in social mobility in Britain over the past fifty years , before considering those developments that have become more marked since the mid-1970s . |