Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [noun sg] 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 But as he tapped it , expertly , for he had suffered an onslaught of boils over a suppurating , pus-stinking twelvemonth , he knew that the hardness meat it was not quite ripe .
3 The next mill downstream has had a variety of names over the years : Russell Mill , Lowes Mill and more recently , Malvern Mill .
4 He said : ‘ We have had a number of complaints over the last few months . ’
5 Miss Danziger had heard a variety of interpretations over the many years . …
6 Kaitlin has run a lot of times over the course and the fact that the Michael Grassick stable is in form leads me to make him the choice in the Newcastle Maiden Hurdle .
7 Several factors have encouraged the fertility of women over age 30 .
8 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 .
9 This was only a temporary setback to the Long March veteran who had survived a number of purges over previous decades when ‘ redness ’ was valued more than ‘ expertise ’ .
10 The Prime Minister has rejected an offer of talks over peace in Northern Ireland with the Sinn Fein leader , Gerry Adams .
11 As to the enforcement of lorry weights , we have doubled the number of inspections over the past five years .
12 The second technical advance that has improved the performance of tokamaks over the past decade has been in auxiliary heating .
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