Example sentences of "[verb] over the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the rate of deaths , the number per one thousand live births , has also dropped over the same period , from 2.30 in 1988 to 1.44 in 1991 . |
| 2 | We were scheduled to fly out over East Anglia and the North Sea , crossing the coast of Holland and then on to the Ruhr as far as Cologne , returning over the same route . |
| 3 | Since the average rate at which the foreign debt was raised was probably about 25 dinars , its dinar value in early 1988 was about 50 times as great , approximately the same as the change in the cost of living over the same period . |
| 4 | He sat at his desk looking over the same papers and repeatedly having the same conversations but unable to take decisions or achieve anything . |
| 5 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 6 | Print publishing over the past four years has shown an annual growth of some 8% but electronic ( non-print ) publishing over the same period has reached an annual growth rate of some 20% . |
| 7 | A QUARRELLING couple drove over the same cliff in matching vans after losing control as they careered through Sydney following a heated argument at home , police said yesterday . |
| 8 | Taking these two points into consideration leads us to the conclusion that meaningful chain dimensions can only be values averaged over the many conformations assumed . |
| 9 | Comparisons of prey assemblages of predators hunting over the same area ( Append . |
| 10 | The number claiming SB has risen over the same period from three million to just under five million ( figures from CPAG ) . |
| 11 | While male activity rates have fallen steadily from 58.1 per cent in 1970 to 55.6 per cent in 1986 , female activity rates have risen over the same period from 26.6 per cent to 32.5 per cent . |
| 12 | I sat around picking over the few facts I knew . |
| 13 | For advanced economies , substantial changes had occurred over the latter half of the 1960s because of loss of comparative advantage in what had become basic technologies which could be mastered by low-income countries , together with changes in the nature of world demand and direct and indirect forms of trade barriers erected to protect domestic industry . |
| 14 | A gold sword hilt from the temple at Mallia shows an acrobat performing a back somersault ( Figure 29 ) ; perhaps , as Professor Alexiou suggests ( undated , p. 49 ) , in reality this feat was performed over the self-same sword planted in the ground , point upwards . |
| 15 | This tuck stitch is easy to work on the Singer Big Nine and you can see from this sample that by working with a lighter shade for the background for the first four pattern repeats followed by a darker one for the background , similar amounts of yarn have been used over the same number of rows . |
| 16 | As he puffed the cigar to life , he shook his head , a man weary of going over the same ground again . |
| 17 | Its main function will be to ascertain whether the results of the first investigation would appear as firm to another team going over the same ground . |
| 18 | 1 Can you draw this figure without going over the same line twice ? |
| 19 | Merrill asked herself again , going over the same painful ground . |
| 20 | So it 's going over the same ground but from the different er different emphasis because clearly my mistake last week was to try and cram in too much and to erm assume that what I was saying about modern sex theory was erm self-evident . |
| 21 | I feel it 's taxpayers money being wasted yet again , because they 're just going over the same ground . |
| 22 | One kind of answer suggests that bird vision has been improving over the same evolutionary timespan as insect camouflage . |
| 23 | This jerk kept the pram moving over the few inches between the foot of the gentle slope and the beginning of the steep grassy bank that ended up at the road . |
| 24 | A further 147,000 vehicles which can not be converted will have to be replaced over the same period by new ones equipped with catalytic converters . |
| 25 | His eyes never left Lamarr Dean , but his right hand closed on the Spencer and it was down at his side as he walked over the few steps to the bar . |
| 26 | Carp are not a true shoal fish like most other coarse fish , vet you may see several fish in a group feeding over the same area . |
| 27 | When I had done that , I touched over the same areas again to strengthen a colour or restate an edge or detail as I felt necessary . |
| 28 | The former take little account of the latter although much of the HMI 's thinking has become known over the same period i.e. the late 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 29 | Specific cellular localisation of silver grains , indicating the presence of preproET-1 mRNA , was found over the same cells that demonstrated ET-1 immunostaining . |
| 30 | He or she will receive a flow of income over the year and will engage in a flow of spending over the same period . |