Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] over the [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Miss Danziger had heard a variety of interpretations over the many years . … |
2 | The chart below shows the average percentage increase in the FT-SE 100 Index over 5 years periods ( commencing 1 January ) from 1 January 1979 to 1 January 1992 in comparison to a higher rate Building Society investment and the rate of inflation over the same periods . |
3 | Investing instead in a similarly-sized firm that was already traded in the market generated , on average , a profit of 30% over the same period . |
4 | I am aware , however , that surveying techniques of the last 150 years have been to standards of accuracy of centimetres over the same sort of distance and landscape . |
5 | But both could be ( confusingly ) described as average number of competitors over the same region as the intended word . |
6 | 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 . |