Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [noun] over " in BNC.

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1 Using this definition at King 's College Hospital , surgical intervention was necessary in 12 of 252 children ( 4.4% ) and 25 of 540 of adults ( 4.6% ) with bleeding oesophageal varices treated by injection sclerotherapy over a five year period .
2 President Bush laid down his ‘ if it flies , it dies ’ ultimatum last night as Allied fighters prepared for combat missions over southern Iraq .
3 Basically , I come to praise the positive steps taken by Health Ministers over the past five years , although in a minor way I will ask for reconsideration of a wrong done to a medical practice in my constituency .
4 There has been a series of trials within the Engineering Branch of the RAF of the technologies related to expert systems over the past 5 to 10 years .
5 A report on the sand and gravel resources of the country around Strachan and Auchenblae , published during the year , completes a programme of six such surveys of sand and gravel resources undertaken in Grampian Region over the last 15 years .
6 The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection is a collection of paintings acquired by Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza over a number of years , by inheritance or purchase .
7 Here is a visual glut of generally superb photographs taken by Mr Mansbridge over many years .
8 The 1986 data destroyed the myth that the foreign kill rate was comparable to the US rate , and confirmed that the widely accepted official figure of 6 million dolphins killed by purse seiners over the past 30 years was a gross underestimate .
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