Example sentences of "[vb pp] over [art] [adj] [adj] day " in BNC.

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1 The hospital is asking GPs only to send in only urgent cases … further operations are likely to be cancelled over the next few days
2 The normal slowdown is represented by The parameters of this normal pre-glitch behaviour were obtained from a best fit for rotation rate and its first derivative , made over the preceding 400 days ; the value of the second derivative was obtained from the full data set from 1969 to 1992 .
3 Sterling lost all gains made over the past few days after the Germans cut a quarter per cent off their interest rate .
4 The VAS were averaged over the first 3 days of admission ( any patient with data missing was omitted from the analysis ) and these means compared by Mann-Whitney U tests .
5 As I looked at him sitting opposite me on the floor of the trench , I was fascinated by his resemblance to the other Commandos I had met over the past five days .
6 Also on Sept. 18 UK Prime Minister John Major referred in a television interview to " fault lines in the ERM revealed over the past few days " , and said that there was no imminent prospect of the UK returning to the ERM , which itself needed reform , while Bundesbank president Helmut Schlesinger said in Washington on Sept. 21 that serious negotiations would be needed before sterling could be readmitted to the ERM .
7 Within the two weeks confidently predicted by Havelock Wilson company after company and local shipowner association after association made its peace with advances in wages and on 28 June some 100 shipowners met in London and decided , among other things , on the standardisation of the local rates which were accepted over the next few days .
8 The rest will be collected over the next few days .
9 I think bearing in mind the clear intentions behind criteria two and the concern that we 've heard over the last three days about inward migration , it might be useful if we tag a rider onto erm criteria two .
10 Defending her life and being jolted and shaken over the last few days had left her exhausted .
11 My legs are shaded by the dust which has gathered over the past few days , so that the contrast is like a Coppertone ad , with the puppy pulling a little girl 's knickers off .
12 The scale of the disaster which has slowly emerged over the past four days has shaken those who are working to tackle the crisis .
13 Business and elections were conducted on the first day , followed by speeches and discussion spread over the following two days and an evening conversazione where " everybody was in the best of spirits .
14 The wind and rain ceased over the next two days , but giant waves of up to fifteen feet continued to batter the shoreline , flooding and wrecking many homes .
15 His symptoms worsened over the next two days and he returned to the nutritionist .
16 ‘ The worst that can happen … ’ she took a deep breath , hoping that this was the right thing to say ‘ … is that the baby has to be delivered over the next few days . ’
17 ‘ Anything could have happened over the last few days . ’
18 While extra millions will immediately start flooding into the Big Four's coffers , spokesmen would only say that savings rates ‘ will be reviewed over the next few days . ’
19 The policy was cleared over the next few days and on 19 March I told the House of Commons that
20 A light air genoa is expected to be the first to be tested over the next few days .
21 This will then be recorded over the following three days alongside Debussy 's La Mer and Printemps for the tenth and final volume in his highly successful Ravel/Debussy series for Chandos .
22 ‘ What you 're telling me , Tallboy , ’ said the Superintendent with practised distaste , ‘ is that the sum total of knowledge gleaned by almost the entire Medewich police force , continuously engaged over the last ten days comes to this : Paul Gray was murdered on Thursday or Friday July first or second , somewhere between Markham cum Cumbermound and Medewich , by persons unknown , at a time not yet established , at a place not yet identified , for an as yet undiscovered reason .
23 The drugs seized will be analysed over the next few days and more arrests are expected to follow .
24 I hope and pray that you will win — God willing , you will because you have all the ability in the world — but I have discovered over the last few days that there are people prepared to go to great lengths to stop you .
25 Yet she had to admit he had changed over the last few days .
26 It was Christmas Eve and Agnes had wondered over the last few days if she had heard aright on the night she had gone to the closet , because the next morning her father had come blithely into the kitchen and said , ‘ Your mother is having a lie-in this morning ; take her a cup of tea along and a bit of toast .
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