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

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1 CCG HAS started a new contract to provide school meals for the London Borough of Wandesworth over the next four years .
2 Black Holes are fascinating , and have caused a great deal of excitement over the past 20 years .
3 To someone accustomed by the existing advanced accounting courses , with no involvement in the National Certificate , the proposals seemed somewhat revolutionary and the document generated a good deal of discussion over the following few weeks on the relative merits of the B1 and B2 models etc .
4 Interim reporting has been attracting a great deal of attention over the past year .
5 Other polls have been published in the newspapers , however , and the issue has gained a good deal of attention over the past few weeks .
6 I could hardly blame him here — at least his feelings ; but even if , with an earlier and exact diagnosis he could have been spared a great deal of pain over a considerable period of time , I realize that nothing could have saved him .
7 Constanze was to spend a good deal of time over the next two years at Baden , where her husband often visited her .
8 The Bank of England has a great deal of power over the financial markets because of its role as lender of last resort .
9 Seen from the outside the nature , and above all , the neck-breaking speed of achievements over the past two months may seem remarkable .
10 The official peace negotiations in Rome had been blocked by a succession of differences over a wide range of political and constitutional issues .
11 Study in Midlothian had shown a 33% loss , East Lothian a 23% loss and Bedfordshire in England had shown a remarkable 82% loss of ponds over the last century .
12 Er w which in turn is is intended to minimize the loss of staff over the next two years .
13 Scientist Tom Clarkson said that there was a 50-60 percent loss of ozone over the Antarctic during the southern spring ( from September to November ) .
14 This has come about partly as a result of research over the last 10 years or so into various forms of involvement in the teaching of reading .
15 The French and British governments are following exactly the opposite policies on production in the public sector ; the French have nationalised an additional 12% of industrial output while the British have begun to sell public assets to the private sector and to plan a vigorous programme of privatisation over the next few years .
16 This year 's profits will be used to help fund a record £1.5billion programme of investment over the next five years to cope with what is described as ‘ a phenomenal ’ growth in mail .
17 It is important that the purpose of this criticism should not be misunderstood ; the theoretical and experimental contributions that the Aplysia group have made to the cellular study of memory over the past two decades have been substantial , but the very intellectual certainty of the group and the charisma of its leader have tended to suppress some of its problems and sideline those who have articulated them .
18 First , those who stress the symbolic role of leaders , or the concentration of power over a few absolutely critical decisions in the hands of a power elite , view leadership as a zero-sum game .
19 He will be discussing the future of Leeds over the next 5 years or so .
20 The relation between the theory and practice of perspective over the next four centuries is examined in detail .
21 One big piece of deregulation over the past ten years will be hard to reverse : the freeing of interest rates .
22 It was with his father Paul 's encouragement that Pascal eventually set to work on the project , which has been ‘ something of a labour of love over the last few years ’ .
23 Any parent who has had an insomniac or hyperactive child will know the situation in which interruption of sleep over a long period frays tempers and seeks some other scapegoat than the child ; husband and wife may end in screaming at each other across the bedroom .
24 Party leaders will work on identifying the priorities for Labour 's first term of office over the next year .
25 It shocked my manager a lot too and he 's going to be concentrating on a big relaunch of Suzanne over the next while so I think it 's a good opportunity for me to take my career more into my own hands . ’
26 A review of debates over the past two or three years reveals another unusual aspect .
27 It rested on a grant of authority over the whole country by Gregory to the first archbishop , followed by a long history of the exercise of this authority from the seventh century onwards .
28 In several incidents in the eastern part of Germany over the past two months the Russians have continued to act like occupiers — and drawn only mild reproof from the German government .
29 If I could have foreseen the progress of events over the next two years I would probably have stood up and run directly back to Boulogne .
30 Harmonic schemes on a larger scale , spanning large movements or in successions of movements , also require planning , for some change of key over a large area is needed to create contrast and relief .
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