Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [noun pl] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 30-nation talks in Geneva failed to bridge the gap between countries such as Germany and the Nordic states , which are seeking a 79 per cent cut in emissions by the end of the decade , and those like the UK and France which want a lower level of cuts over a longer period . |
| 2 | Firms with a sustained high level of exports over a longer period may provide further figures for consideration as a consistent exporter . |
| 3 | Similarly , there has been some relaxation of restrictions over the formation of mixed and inter-professional practices . |
| 4 | Although the shareholders no longer exercised the direct control of principals over the directors as their agents , the model nevertheless asserts that any danger that the directors might use their considerable discretionary powers to manage the business in their own interest is precluded . |
| 5 | Each judge will submit a completed list of nominations over the next couple of weeks and the eventual winners will be presented with their awards at a special ceremony early in the new year . |
| 6 | This number of casualties over a period of a few days would have been exceptional even when the mujahideen guerrillas were fighting the communists . |
| 7 | And one detects some shaking of heads over the committee 's decision not to keep Mark Davies . |
| 8 | Fleischmann then showed a proposal that he and Pons had submitted to the Department of Energy ( DOE ) in Washington requesting financial support for them to carry through a definitive series of experiments over a period of three years . |
| 9 | Frightened off by such high figures , many collectors renounce the attempt to assemble a complete range of bindings over the centuries and , sensibly , turn to more limited fields ; for example , to books stamped with the coats of arms or crests of early owners in gilt or ‘ blind ’ ( without gold or colour ) . |
| 10 | the average number of customers over the week ( add each day 's total customers together , then divide that total by the number of days in the working week ) . |
| 11 | In addition , HARPY limited the average number of competitors over a stretch of speech and also constrained their identity , thereby ensuring that the items were easily discriminable as measured by their acoustic match scores . |
| 12 | But both could be ( confusingly ) described as average number of competitors over the same region as the intended word . |
| 13 | has said about most cases being unfounded though Mr McPhee does say that they ( the travellers ) do not stay on permanent sites whereas there has been a constant settlement of varying numbers of caravans over the past two years . |
| 14 | " Our objective is to test the law on the system of consents , by which companies are allowed to discharge limited amounts of pollutants over the course of a year " , explained a Greenpeace spokeswoman , Debbie Adams . |
| 15 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 16 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 17 | With the introduction of general management , an attempt has been made to address the clinician-management interface directly and to challenge formally , at least in theory , the tight grip of doctors over the NHS as an organisation . |
| 18 | The giant ground sloths and armadillos of the past were clearly South American in character , showing that this continent had been populated by unique families of animals over a vast period of time . |
| 19 | We have however entered a large number of competitions over the years : the FA Cup , FA Vase , County Shield , Debenhams Floodlit Cup and the Sherpa Tensing Van Trophy to name but a few . |
| 20 | He 'd had my bald account of events over the telephone in the morning , his first knowledge of what had happened . |
| 21 | In a remarkable series of investigations over the past four years , the MMC has examined the practices in beer , petroleum , and motor vehicle supply . |
| 22 | Third , as we monitored our representative sample of schools over a three year period , we could perceive some of them undergoing a process of structural transition , shifting away from the simple two-tier model towards departmentalism and/or a matrix structure . |
| 23 | People also experience radically unequal patterns of earnings over the span of their working lives as employees . |
| 24 | There was also the possibility of a more flexible use of facilities in the statutory , voluntary and private sectors , and , finally , the powerful influence of doctors over the lives of the chronically disabled would inevitably wane , a process of ‘ de-medicalization ’ which is largely to be welcomed as medical and nursing skills are only a small part of the required professional skills . |
| 25 | The key to a healthy , nourishing diet for children is variety — aim to give your child a good range of foods over the course of a week or so and you can be pretty certain she 'll get the nutrients she needs . |
| 26 | This gradual build-up of reps over the first 3 sessions will reduce the amount of stiffness and soreness experienced in the muscles at the start of the programme . |
| 27 | Despite this minimal preparation , and regular changes of personnel over the past fortnight , they achieved a wholly implausible blend of skill , aggression and indomitable spirit . |
| 28 | Poets had found their way over ( and sometimes back , to tell the tale ) ; so had a good number of priests over the centuries , and hermits , meditating on their essence so hard the In Ovo enveloped them and spat them into another world . |
| 29 | Long experience suggests that magnetic disks have seen off a long series of challenges over the past 15 years — but a review of the survival and thriving of the technology gives a very partial and inadequate view . |
| 30 | Thomas Huxley , the great biologist , whose household was dominated by a long series of cats over a period of forty years , described how one of them , a young tabby tom-cat , developed the alarming game of jumping on the shoulders of his dinner-guests and refusing to dismount until they fed him some titbit . |