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

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1 In an action brought by the Crown in 1636 , he was accused of felling 19,320 trees reserved for shipbuilding , and of having consumed annually 300,000 loads of wood in his ironworks over the preceding seven years .
2 Durham St Studio Open Days HOPEFUL musicians have a wealth of advice at their fingertips over the next few days .
3 Last Christmas , having loads of time on my hands over the holidays , I decided to take the plunge and make one at least as nice theirs .
4 The practical effect of this wording is that for a claim to be covered the casualty must be reasonably attributable to an identifiable accident the source of which is external to the craft — thus the craft filling with water on its moorings over a period of weeks and then foundering would not be covered .
5 If MI5 had obeyed the 1952 Maxwell Fyfe guidelines then there would have been little cause for complaint about its activities over the past 35 years .
6 On Jan. 10 , following a third round of discussions to resolve the Ayodhya dispute , Hindu and Moslem leaders belonging respectively to the Vishwa Hindu Parishad ( VHP ) and the All India Babri Masjid Action Committee ( AIBMAC ) agreed to the setting up of expert panels to examine documents in support of their claims over the site ; the panels would submit a report by Feb. 5 .
7 I will not therefore take the time of the House with the conventional lengthy explanation of the detail of what are in fact relatively routine pieces of annual business , such as the guaranteed minimum pensions order and the draft contributions rerating order , which are very much in line with their predecessors over a number of years .
8 But I doubt very much whether there are any claims now outstanding which are not statute-barred , in respect of children stillborn before 22 July 1976 or any children born before that date , who are locked in litigation with their mothers over whether the mother tasted alcohol or followed a diet other than that recommended by the current phase of medical opinion during pregnancy .
9 We 've had some fairly exotic bass strings dangled in front of our wallets over the years — like the ones which were round-wound by the bridge and progressively smoother up towards the nut , and the others designed so that only the bare core passes over the bridge saddles — but Jim D'Addario is pretty scathing about them all .
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