Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun] of [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 | Several factors have encouraged the fertility of women over age 30 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As to the enforcement of lorry weights , we have doubled the number of inspections over the past five years . |
| 5 | The second technical advance that has improved the performance of tokamaks over the past decade has been in auxiliary heating . |