Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | A study was carried out in a Bedfordshire village , i.e. a semi-rural environment , of predation by domestic cats over a one-year period and the results were published in a zoological journal in 1987 . |
| 2 | Erm and er I 've felt that same sense of rightness at many times over these years , this is now our thirty seventh year ? |
| 3 | A second survey was undertaken to establish the level of loss of requested items over a six month period . |
| 4 | These two questions represent the focus of a considerable amount of research by developmental psychologists over the last 30 years . |
| 5 | Their exchange illustrated a major bone of contention in early debates over sex teaching : |
| 6 | With indirect fuel injection , the well-proven power unit has been a driving force in the growing popularity of diesel amongst British drivers over recent years . |
| 7 | In 1859 he went to the brink of war with American troops over San Juan Island , despite his council 's urging restraint . |
| 8 | Early in 1929 Humphrys supervised the safe aerial evacuation of several hundred Europeans from the city ( a pioneering feat of aviation in sub-zero temperatures over high mountain ranges ) ; both he and his wife were commended for their ‘ courage and fortitude ’ in the House of Commons on 4 February . |
| 9 | The Child Poverty Action Group was allowed to challenge the Secretary of State for Social Services over delay in paying social security benefits . |
| 10 | They would pass into the hands of number of different owners over the years , but Charles Titford was to remain the occupier until his death in 1802 . |
| 11 | There has been a certain degree of controversy in recent years over the practice of self-investment by pension funds . |
| 12 | They are more interested in the search process than in the goal of the search , and record the rise and fall of activity in competing units over a number of processing cycles . |
| 13 | A Mr Shawcross , chairman of the examination board of the NUT , offered a similar contribution : he spoke of the " revolutionary change " in the teaching of English in elementary schools over the previous ten years , and he went on ( in the words of the bulletin report ) to give " his experience of Manchester children under the old system " : |
| 14 | The ERA became law on 29 July 1988 , though each of its many provisions will come into force at different times over the next few years . |
| 15 | England cricketers have already been cowed into submission in recent days over discussing publicly the ‘ Lambgate Affair ’ which has rocked cricket . |
| 16 | Although Sir Nicholas put a brave face on the massive bad debts provision at Hill Samuel and the management re-organisation , he came under fire from angry shareholders over the £750,000 pay-off to the former chief executive , Don McCrickard , and the performance of the ‘ pasty-faced ’ board . |
| 17 | Because of changes in society in general , and in the student and academic population in particular , bias has become a major issue in academic writing ( reflected for example in current arguments over " political correctness " ) . |
| 18 | Müncheberg himself , promoted and highly-decorated , would fall in combat with American fighters over Tunisia during March 1943 after his 135th. victory . |
| 19 | Subsequently , however , the Chronicle of 452 complicates matters more seriously , not only by being in conflict with other sources over the dating of events , but also by itself providing two alternative dating systems , wrongly correlated . |
| 20 | In spite of various difficulties over these early broadcasts and the general absence of supplementary printed material for class use , together with some antipathy towards this innovatory form of teaching , the Cambridge branch persisted with radio programmes into 1929 . |
| 21 | Newton was one of them , and in spite of public fears over a similar junction elsewhere , it had been given the go-ahead . |
| 22 | ( Industry analysts suggested that prices at this level were likely in the short term only if Libya withdrew supplies in retaliation against Western countries over the current sanctions issue — see p. 38883 — but conceded that the general trend of the market was upwards . ) |
| 23 | Moreover , a basic premise of Dunlop 's prescription for the advancement of knowledge in industrial relations is the need to break away from the restrictive and myopic confines of problem-solving , institutional studies within individual countries — what has been termed an ‘ ethno-centric ’ bias — in favour of broader comparisons over the course of time and across countries . |
| 24 | Hank Holland , president and chief executive , said the firm would continue to support its E and M mainframe series software for another seven to 10 years , but would start to reduce research and development expenditure in favour of client-server environments over the next three years . |
| 25 | If a method can be devised of enabling employees to acquire and sell shares in an unquoted company , and benefit from the increase in value of those shares over the employee 's period of ownership , then it is perceived that employees will wish to participate in the share capital and growth of their employing company and will be motivated to work to increase the value of the business . |
| 26 | In view of these concerns over the mode of inheritance of chronic inflammatory bowel disease , attempts to map susceptibility loci should be analysed by a robust linkage test ( for example , affected pedigree member of ‘ sib pair ’ test ) so as to minimise false positive claims of linkage . |
| 27 | The ceremony must take place in front of two witnesses over the age of 18 . |
| 28 | Two Dutchmen , Hans Guyt and Willem Beekman , were eventually sent to prison for six weeks over this protest . |
| 29 | Moreover , all of these studies either involved very small numbers or had other serious methodological flaws such as lack of objective criteria over initial recruitment or the response to treatment , or both , and lack of a control group . |
| 30 | McGoldrick , a revelation as emergency sweeper for Palace in impressive wins over Liverpool and Leeds , would readily swap his wide duties for a permanent place at the back . |