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

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1 A second survey was undertaken to establish the level of loss of requested items over a six month period .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Newton was one of them , and in spite of public fears over a similar junction elsewhere , it had been given the go-ahead .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 The ceremony must take place in front of two witnesses over the age of 18 .
10 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 .
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