Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] over [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1928 the Medical Officer reported that maternity and child welfare had developed remarkably over the last two years . |
| 2 | Then , slowly , he looked round the kitchen and the sitting room at the flowers painted all over the pale green walls , like a meadow in summer , at the dark green ivy crawling up the stairs and the bears and tigers and dragons decorating every piece of furniture . |
| 3 | What is amazing , therefore , is that the agency that has the responsibility for this programme — Milton Keynes Development Corporation — has been largely wound down over the past few years and the remainder of it will cease to exist in 1992 . |
| 4 | Well the list has certainly took off over the last few days . |
| 5 | A few little personality defects like indecision but we 'll get those sorted out over the next few months . |
| 6 | A particularly ambitious study of this kind , carried out over an entire geographic region , was that done by Ken Green , Rod Coombs , and K. Holroyd of the Tameside region , near Manchester ( Green et al. 1980 ) . |
| 7 | Extensive geological and geophysical surveys were carried out over the next two years , and the governments negotiated with an international group of banks interested in financing the construction of the tunnel . |
| 8 | A Declaratory Order covering 270 acres was proposed with a view to designating extensively war-damaged land , subject to compulsory purchase ; this was required for essential improvements to be carried out over the next 15 years . |
| 9 | Follow-up visits will be carried out over the next three weeks , to obtain additional information on equipment , software , and your immediate working environment . |
| 10 | It will build on and continue the work carried out over the past three years by the WACC-Asia Region 's Women 's Desk , which was based in Manila , Philippines . |
| 11 | Thus , research carried out over the past few years indicates that the traits described above actually overlap considerably with those found in so-called ‘ schizotypal ’ individuals , i.e. People whose temperamental make-up seems similar to that underlying schizophrenia , continuous with it in the personality domain but without any obvious signs of psychotic illness . |
| 12 | Maintenance and improvement works have been carried out over the past few months resulting in the first Sunday train leaving at 5pm . |
| 13 | Mr. Philpot travelled from Pembrokeshire for a gathering which was not primarily a fund-raising event , but rather a celebration of the building carried out over the previous fifteen years to provide extensions of both premises and facilities . |
| 14 | At the beginning of the month it was announced that of 1,760 extremist attacks in the period from the beginning of January to Nov. 8 , 1992 , 1,000 had been carried out over the previous two months . |
| 15 | The Dorset , Devon and Cornwall holiday areas benefited from the good summer weather and from the upgrading of pubs carried out over the last few years . |
| 16 | The collection comes from almost fifty digs carried out over the last twenty years . |
| 17 | The collection comes from almost fifty digs carried out over the last twenty years . |
| 18 | Even so , the number of people moving through particular age groups has varied substantially over the past two or three decades . |
| 19 | Bankings which have been torn apart over the last two centuries and then rebuilt and rebuilt again may have to be moved back to take the sting out of the pile-driving force of the river in spate . |
| 20 | However trends in the activity rates of men and women have differed significantly over the last 15 years . |
| 21 | It makes sense to retain Lineker , for though his rate of scoring may have dropped considerably over the past two years he remains the only England striker of sufficient class to succeed in Italy next summer . |
| 22 | This area of planning has grown tremendously over the past few years , fuelled by the accounting discussion over brand valuation . |
| 23 | AMNESTY in Britain has grown tremendously over the last four or five years , but what has this meant for our effectiveness as a campaigning organisation ? |
| 24 | Fewer than 1 in 5 of the men in our sample has confined his sexual experience to a single partner , though two-thirds of them have done so over the last 12 months . |
| 25 | ‘ Our business in this market has grown impressively over the last five years , thanks largely to the efforts of Tony Hardacre and our agents , the Sumitomo Corporation , ’ said Juan . |
| 26 | ‘ We have expanded rapidly over the past few years and have now outgrown our existing factory , ’ said David Gray , chairman and managing director of the Saltofix Group . |
| 27 | Therefore , under SSAP 24 the shortfall of £30m would be written off over the average remaining service life of the employees in the scheme . |
| 28 | It was an enormous leap , which he was able to make by virtue of the professional competence and political significance he had built up over the preceding twenty years . |
| 29 | George Ortiz 's own collection of antiquities has been built up over the past forty-three years . |
| 30 | Built up over the past 10 years , his aquilegia collection consists of about 130 species and hybrids , with the emphasis on species ‘ to save as many as possible from extinction and allow present and future generations to know and enjoy their great beauty ’ . |