Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun] [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that a great deal of ley hunting done over the past 50 years has been hunting chance alignments . |
| 2 | The UK 's leading environmental groups are maintaining levels of support through the recession , but the rapid rate of membership growth experienced over the past few years has slackened . |
| 3 | She lifts from the floor a leather Gladstone bag , and begins to load it with the things she will need for the day : well-thumbed , much underlined and annotated copies of Shirley , Mary Barton , North and South , Sybil , Alton Locke , Felix Holt , Hard Times ; her lecture notes — a palimpsest of holograph revisions in different-coloured inks , beneath which the original typescript is scarcely legible ; and a thick sheaf of student essays marked over the Christmas vacation . |
| 4 | A cloud of cigarette smoke hangs over the group , slowly wafting over the television set and out through the open window . |
| 5 | So in West Cumbria none of the £5m ( $8.5m ) of ERDF money allocated over the three years has been spent . |
| 6 | An even larger protest was held the following year when 10,000 people gathered , many of them climbing a staircase of straw bales built over the ten-foot high barbed wire fence around the site . |
| 7 | As overlooker he has seen the changing face of technology affect looms over the past 47 years . |