Example sentences of "[verb] over the two " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Since this complicates the interpretation of the two intercept dummies in the ‘ offer ’ probability functions as the duration effects , the unemployment rate variable , a measure of the tightness of the labour market which enters q , is allowed to vary over the two optimisation periods . |
| 9 | All cars were judged over the two days at given times for sound quality including staging , stereo image , clarity , frequency separation and absence of noise . |
| 10 | And now a subtle change was coming over the two hundred and fifty watching children in the audience . |
| 11 | Despite all this , a pervasive lack of confidence has settled over the two institutions . |
| 12 | The war , which arose over the two countries ' rival ambitions in Manchuria and Korea , was widely regarded in Russia as the product of intrigue at court and among a handful of entrepreneurs , and aroused little patriotic enthusiasm . |
| 13 | The unity witnessed over the two days had been greater than he could ever have hoped for , and the remaining morning 's session of ‘ rounding up ’ would , he trusted , be rich in commitments on the part of participants concerning action each would be taking before the important international conference in Switzerland . |
| 14 | We 've been told if we go over the two pound , they wo n't sell , sell so well , erm , so really I 'm not too sure , but er , I , I can work on bigger , er , like I got this couple of days off living Manchester , I 'm sure if I approach erm , you know , the police , they might give me a couple of days selling out there . |
| 15 | Sprawling in the sun in her one-piece suit , a little overweight , watching Dan 's eyes straying over the two slim French girls in bikinis diving in the pool . |
| 16 | When the Girls left to get married at the end of each show , rather than risk Jennie 's haphazard choice of replacements , she sent over the two Head Girls who were almost resident in America , Rene Todd or Dorothy Sabine , to make their own selection . |
| 17 | Feedback on how effective you are and how your effectiveness has increased over the two days . |
| 18 | Then we went over the two Harnham Bridges , one with its niches to enable pedestrians to shelter from passing vehicles and so to Exeter Street and home . |
| 19 | And so , as predicted , two buckets of pigs blood were poured over the two of them and they were received by hysterical laughter . |
| 20 | ‘ Large numbers of entries were received for all the competitions , which ran over the two days and were thrown open to the past members of the Club , as well as members of the Ladies and Artisans sections . |
| 21 | Although there has been some shift in the 1980s to the political right in the United States and West Germany , the socialist share of the vote has hardly changed over the two decades in Austria , Scandinavia , West Germany , and Italy . |
| 22 | On Friday and Saturday there will be national jumping for horses and ponies , with four international classes staged over the two days . |