Example sentences of "[verb] over the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed downright immoral to torment the poor woman with questions now just for the sake of proving the Jaguar 's brakes were faulty or Fanshawe driving over the seventy limit . |
| 2 | More often than not you get a refund cos of course you have personal allowances for a whole year but you 've not er not er lived a whole year as often as not and therefore there usually spaced over the twelve months and you 've paid a bit too much tax if you 've died in the course of the twelve months . |
| 3 | Steinitz 's own furniture , amassed over the twenty years since he acquired the Château and its contents , accounted for one-third of the lots . |
| 4 | The remaining 17% occurred over the 10 seconds preceding the onset of the common cavity episode , being evenly distributed through this time . |
| 5 | In terms of the papers in front of you this morning , Chair , the position is that , that is addressed over the three year period , and the figures do fluctuate between years , so there is a , as we 'll see later in the paper , there is a , a net expenditure total in year one which increases in year two , but then is offset by a , a reduction in year three . |
| 6 | Watanabe 's initiative proposed that Shikoton and the four islets collectively known as Habomai , be returned immediately , and that temporary Japanese administrative rights be granted over the two more populous islands — Etorofu and Kunashiri — prior to their being handed back . |
| 7 | Despite some very inhospitable weather , causing the cancellation of racing on five different occasions , the series , which started the previous November , proved popular and very well attended over the five months . |
| 8 | His orders were obeyed by more than 450 competitors but about 30 — they were apparently reluctant to lose their position at the head of the race - steeplechased over the two closed barriers and carried on running . |
| 9 | But she maintains that as a percentage of all children seen over the five months , the numbers in which they first raised the question of possible abuse were little larger than those found in a recent survey by the NSPCC in a dozen areas of England . |
| 10 | The Group 's responsibility for site-specific geophysical surveys brings with it the parallel responsibility for databasing the considerable archive of material from surveys of this kind made over the 40 years since the Geophysics Department was set up in the former Geological Survey of Great Britain . |
| 11 | The commodity composition of Yugoslavia 's foreign trade , averaged over the five years 1980–4 , is shown in Table 9.4 . |
| 12 | They wo n't send over the 2,000 word revelation on what really went on in the referee 's room at Lord 's , when the Texaco Trophy ball was changed , until BT fix the fault . |
| 13 | He gambolled over the four fences on the run towards the turn for home on the first circuit , and made towards the stands with a commanding lead . |
| 14 | By this date there must have been a very fine library at Islay House collected over the two hundred years since it was built ; one can not imagine that Eallabus which produced Dr. John Crawford who wrote " A History of the Indian Archipelago " and " A Grammar & Dictionary of the Malay Language , " and the distinguished surgeon Professor Cheine , was without a library . |
| 15 | If a house is bought this way all the surveys and investigations should be carried out first , and you must be ready to sign and exchange contracts on the day of the auction after paying over the 10 per cent deposit . |
| 16 | Have we now reached the stage where there is a recognised body of work produced over the 1980s by women artists ? |
| 17 | Dad paid over the four shillings and while he was entering it up in the book said , ‘ Mr Priest , I was wondering if yer could give me permission to build a small wooden shed facing the house ? ’ |
| 18 | There were five of these sites and in the tot in total nine hundred and twenty eight operations were performed over the five sites . |
| 19 | As the volume of private building increases over the two or three years following the proposed changes of policy , local authority housing must as soon as possible be restricted to these objects . |
| 20 | Another popular scale is the Aeolian , which would be used over the VI chord of a harmonised major scale , or over a m7£5 chord . |
| 21 | The examples below are a selection to illustrate the types of changes envisaged over the three year period up to 1995 . |
| 22 | And then I know full well that I 'm well within the guidelines of not going over the thirteen amp that this is designed to operate at maximum efficiency and safety . |
| 23 | During Mark 's absence in Spain , ‘ the mole ’ Fred Klepner had spent countless hours going over the Ten Year Business plan which was to be the subject of the presentation Mark was to give to Nate Cocello at the next Planning Committee meeting . |
| 24 | I simply climbed over the eight foot fence , strolled over to the main accomodation block and mingled with all the other prisoners there . |
| 25 | In fact 98 per cent of Southern Californians suffer from the effects of photochemical smog — the thick pall of carbon monoxide , nitrogen dioxides and ozone which hangs over the 660,000 square miles around Los Angeles . |
| 26 | Obviously though , prices have increased , and a properly defined index should reflect this , by taking into account the qualitative change in the drawings sold over the two years . |
| 27 | Reportedly a total of only 14 aircraft were sold over the two day event , and those that actually sold realised low prices , making it somewhat of a buyer 's market . |
| 28 | Chapman did not score over the three games and that was probably the biggest single practical reason — among many — why we did so well . |
| 29 | After a while I could see dimly by the light filtering through the sacking hung over the two narrow slits which are the Bunker 's only windows . |
| 30 | Our last mode is B altered b♭7 and is played over the seven chord B7 ( o = diminished ) . |