Example sentences of "in [noun] over the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sun is arisen and is breaking forth in splendour over the Christian Church ( which is founded on a rock ) dispersing the clouds of night and illuminating , with his new-born light the benighted land . |
| 2 | And there 'll be playing for civic pride in Hereford over the coming week … more than a thousand sports men and women from Cheltenham , Worcester and Hereford are competing in 21 different sports in the annual ’ Sport for All ’ festival . |
| 3 | Then again , his paternalistic leadership style , his willingness to bring ex-Nazis into office , his pro-Westernism and his fostering of materialism were to invite widespread criticism in Germany over the following years . |
| 4 | Walking silently and in stealth over the harsh grass I remembered all the things an English gentlewoman should n't do , and the thing my mother had done . |
| 5 | The Rural Development Commission expects 100,000 job losses in agriculture over the next decade and 50,000 associated redundancies because of CAP reform . |
| 6 | Other points to note from the Grampian survey include the continued strong performance of the Mechanical engineering sector with a 13% rise in exports over the 1989 level . |
| 7 | ‘ One trader has already indicated he has had an increase in takings over the last week . |
| 8 | The authority spent twenty thousand pounds on the eviction , half what the squatters say they 'd have paid in rent over the two years |
| 9 | BankAmerica Corp 's Bank of America has chosen MCI Communications Corp as its primary long-distance carrier in a deal that will mean more than $250m in revenue over the four-year life of the contract , MCI said , without revealing the terms . |
| 10 | He believes that ScotRail 's 9 per cent increase in revenue over the past year has helped strengthen his case for a buy-out . |
| 11 | He believes that ScotRail 's 9 per cent increase in revenue over the past year has strengthened his case for a buy-out . |
| 12 | Over the past few months there have been detailed discussions ( which are continuing ) in Brussels over the technical context and allocation of funding for the new workplan . |
| 13 | At a World Bank-sponsored meeting in Paris on Oct. 27 leading developed countries and multilateral agencies approved a further $2,200 million in aid over the three years 1990-92 . |
| 14 | The stock change in units over the three years : |
| 15 | American policy was in disarray over the appropriate response to the communist threat in the small South-East Asian state of Laos . |
| 16 | He was active in Westmorland over the forced loan . |
| 17 | The latest incident follows 24 attacks — one fatal — in Hampshire over the past year . |
| 18 | I have written before about the controversy raised in Scotland over the National Trust for Scotland 's mountain properties and breaking the ‘ rules ’ set by its mountaineering benefactor Percy Unna , who wanted the hills kept natural . |
| 19 | The question remains as to the optimal method of obtaining a consistent estimate of the parameter on the change term in wealth over the full sample period . |
| 20 | Sir Antony commented : ‘ The fact that these actions have not prevented the substantial fall in profitability over the same period is a reflection of the length and severity of the recession . ’ |
| 21 | Turn under the raw edge of the top seam allowance and tack in place over the trimmed edge . |
| 22 | Mr O'Hare suspects that ‘ not that many [ profit sharing schemes ] have been put in place over the last couple of years ’ because of the cash flow drain represented by the company 's contributions to the fund . |
| 23 | On a more technical note , since August 1990 pension schemes which are in surplus over the Inland Revenue limit ( 5 per cent ) are no longer allowed to have the money returned to the company unless pension scheme members are first guaranteed certain benefits , namely : pension increases of either 5 per cent a year or the rate of inflation — whichever is lower . |
| 24 | Anyone involved with PCs can hardly have failed to notice the dramatic price reductions in PCs over the last year . |
| 25 | As British companies began to feel the pinch , it was ad campaigns which felt the finance director 's scalpel first ( the Saatchi-owned , media-buying organisation , Zenith , which bulk-buys TV slots predicts a real-term fall of 3.5% in revenues over the next year ) . |
| 26 | The offeror 's directors subsequently felt unable to continue to recommend the offer to its shareholders because of differences in expectations over the combined group 's financing , and the offer was withdrawn with the consent of the target and the Panel . |
| 27 | Talks between the ruling AP and the opposition MNR , CONDEPA and MBL , which had been convoked to resolve a political crisis which had arisen in November over the political role played by the Supreme court , many of whose members were linked with the MNR [ see pp. 37851-52 ] , broke down in March 1991 . |
| 28 | Although the rise in oil prices will continue to feed through for a while , the prospect is for a substantial reduction in inflation over the coming year . |
| 29 | Reports also indicated continuing differences over interest rates [ see pp. 37977-78 ; 38170 ; 38314 ] following a rise in inflation over the last year in six of the G-7 countries . |
| 30 | MORE than 2000 houses will be provided in Lothian over the next year in the largest investment programme yet undertaken by Scottish Homes . |