Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European Communities ( EC ) announced grant aid for Ethiopia worth $387,000,000 over the next five years , to be directed towards rural development and small-scale industry and agriculture , with the emphasis on the private sector . |
| 2 | THERE is a good deal of embarrassment in Paris over l'affaire de la Musee Jacquemart-Andre . |
| 3 | Hyperbolic functions are commonly used in kinetics : eg , the speed of waves in water over a shallow bottom is given by : V ² = 1.8 L th ( 6.3 d / L ) where V is velocity in knots and L is the wavelength in feet . |
| 4 | Chronology is one of the cornerstones of geomorphology , and researchers are urged to balance their studies of present geomorphic processes by an appreciation of rates of work over timescales of 10 4 — 10 6 years . |
| 5 | Pour a sloppy mix of plaster of Paris over the damaged area to form a new key |
| 6 | I put it in the barn in a seed tray with a piece of glass on top over the winter and the whole lot came up . |
| 7 | The obtaining of access and maintenance of rights of way over Pennine moorlands , particularly in the Peak District , was fundamental to their activities . |
| 8 | After 1870 industrialization and urbanization entered a new phase , which economic historians have designated the second industrial revolution to distinguish it from the coming of industry to Britain over a century earlier . |
| 9 | Despite a run of small harvests , the cellars in Reims and Épernay were brimming , and it was estimated that had sales maintained their 1932 level , the Champagne houses possessed sufficient stock in hand to tide over sales for the next thirty-three years . |
| 10 | One company in the food processing and distribution market claimed that it experienced a 50% reduction in absenteeism from 8% to 4% over a three year period . |
| 11 | Even when age of acquisition and age at time of test are controlled there is a consistent gap in favour of production over comprehension of BSL for groups of signers with average six , 12 and 20 years ' experience ( Kyle , Woll and Llewellyn-Jones , 1981 ) . |
| 12 | Gradually the sound came closer until it was bellowing overhead , hurling its echo from mountain to mountain over the valley . |
| 13 | The talks were set up after Virgin won a High Court libel action in London against BA over alleged ‘ dirty tricks ’ damaging Virgin 's reputation . |
| 14 | Black ( 1982 ) related changes in net fixed investment to changes in GDP over the previous three years . |
| 15 | It expects to get venture funding of $2m to $4m over the summer when it will start shipping . |
| 16 | If one simply looks at the level of unemployment amongst architects over time , it is difficult to identify a clear pattern linked to any of the regulatory reforms . |
| 17 | Residuals can tell us about the general level of variability of data over and above that accounted for by the fit ; we can judge atypical behaviour against this variability , as measured , for example , by the midspread of the residuals . |
| 18 | In this kind of evaluation of change over time , it is argued that it is easier to attribute changes directly to the planned intervention , since it is unlikely that other experiences to which the child might be exposed would produce the same pattern of differential progress across different aspects of language . |
| 19 | Looking at the story of food in Africa over the last two decades is a depressing business . |
| 20 | But consumption does not directly create capital assets whether financed internally or externally , and investment levels in most countries have not risen significantly as a proportion of GDP in Africa over the last twenty years , and reMain 6 or 7 per cent lower than in both the rest of the developing world and in the industrialized world . |
| 21 | In terms of regional structural controls most of the auriferous deposits in the project area are spatially related to first-order faults and shear zones within the belt and along its margins ; to major anticlinal fold axial traces and limb shears ; or to the fracture envelopes around the major granitoid intrusions Follow-up geochemical field testing of soils for arsenic over selected targets outside the known gold mining districts was 60–70% successful in demonstrating that certain predicted structural settings would be mineralised . |
| 22 | Some of these richer families in the village were becoming entrepreneurial , while others still clung to the exercise of power through control over land . |
| 23 | UN in battle of wills with Serbs over relief convoys |
| 24 | Although DLOs have survived , Stoker ( 1988 , p. 186 ) notes that there was a 22.5 per cent fall in numbers employed between 1980 and 1985 and a 17.7 per cent fall in value of output over the same period . |
| 25 | In the chapter on evolution , Stuart rightly stresses the importance of a good stratigraphic and geographic record for studies of changes over time between species . |
| 26 | As the Venezuelan Communists said , in the midst of polemics with Castro over their withdrawal of support for the guerrilla movement , ‘ We reject the role of revolutionary ‘ pope ’ which Fidel Castro arrogates to himself . ’ |
| 27 | Analysts say Mr Patten has been fighting a war of nerves with China over the proposals , with neither wanting to go into any negotiations from a position of weakness . |
| 28 | I think Mum 's come to some sort of agreement with Viola over the profits . |
| 29 | Announcement of talks with Russia over Cam Ranh base |
| 30 | The exhibition also looks at the making and selling of instruments on Merseyside over the past 200 years . |