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

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1 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 .
2 He has had the players in stitches over the past few weeks when we have relaxed after our training sessions at Lilleshall by having a game of pool .
3 Several factors have encouraged the fertility of women over age 30 .
4 Times were changing ; the popes had abolished the use of chrism in the imperial anointing , had denied the authority of kings over priests ; the time would shortly come when the popes themselves claimed to be vicars of Christ , and interpreted the phrase to mean that in the last analysis all earthly authority was mediated through them , not through kings .
5 As to the enforcement of lorry weights , we have doubled the number of inspections over the past five years .
6 The second technical advance that has improved the performance of tokamaks over the past decade has been in auxiliary heating .
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