Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been some controversy in recent years over the effect which the plague had on the population , and the bacteriologist J. F. D. Shrewsbury has tried to argue that bubonic plague could not , by its nature , have destroyed as high a proportion of the population as historians have claimed ( 102 ) . |
| 2 | Rape trials have been the subject of this analysis of these changes over time so far . |
| 3 | Superficially , there is little disagreement between theoretical approaches over the fact that capitalist economies develop unevenly over space . |
| 4 | But as he has also said , for longer that any of us care to remember all attempts at rational arguments over the best use of resources in Highfields have been drowned out by noise from the grinding of axes . |
| 5 | So there is some pattern in this spelling it 's awkward it 's not as trouble is English is mixed up with bits of all sort of other languages over hundreds of thousands of years . |
| 6 | There have been so many thefts from Venetian churches over recent years ( see p.16 ) that , without custodians , the college of priests will be forced to recommend keeping most Venetian church doors closed . |
| 7 | Europeans tend to favour the entrepreneur who is self-funding ; there is not the same confidence in new ventures over here . ’ |
| 8 | Police added : ‘ We are investigating to see if there are any similarities to other attacks over the last few months in other parts of the country . |