Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | some shit from over here : |
| 2 | ‘ Because that 's exactly what Charlie would n't want them to do : start anything without a clear directive from over here . |
| 3 | The snowdrops at Painswick have been a popular attraction for over a century . |
| 4 | In June the Interior Ministry reorganized and took direct control of over one-third of the main departments . |
| 5 | The Company did not send expeditions of its own into this area for over a century ; like the East India and the Royal Africa Companies it established trading posts and waited for the local inhabitants to come and trade at them . |
| 6 | Oh I think I might just put some petrol in over there . |
| 7 | Overall , the pound depreciated by 6.25 per cent in real terms in the year ended March 1990 , but recovered in the wake of the Gulf crisis , hitting a nine-year high against the US dollar on Aug. 23 ( £1=$1.9515 ) , and rising against the West German currency to over DM3 . |
| 8 | An independent audit , drawn up at Mr Balladur 's request , is said to show public spending heading for a record deficit this year of over FFr400 billion , 6% of GDP , double the forecast of Mr Bérégovoy's's government at the end of last year . |
| 9 | By the end of June Bulgaria had stopped repaying both the capital and interest on its hard-currency foreign debt of over US$10,000 million [ see also p. 37744 ] . |
| 10 | Well look the first thing to occur and immediately comes to mind is that if I was going to be really evil I would I 'd just stick it away in a quite drawer or wait until the day , and I 'd turn up when she was breaking the the bottle , the empty bottle over over the the skip , we 'd do a picture of her actually littering up the countryside . |
| 11 | Jonathan Mann , director of the World Health Organization 's global programme on AIDS , which he founded in 1986 and which had an annual budget of over US$100,000,000 , announced his resignation on March 16 , citing disagreements with the WHO Director-General , Hiroshi Nakajima . |
| 12 | Was there much trouble over over blackleg firms in ? |
| 13 | In 1979 , the World Bank published a glowing report , Romania : Industrialization under Socialist Planning , which claimed , on the basis of official Romanian government figures , that in the quarter century between 1950 and 1975 , the Romanian economy had grown at an average compound annual rate of over 9% . |
| 14 | If the labour supply is refined further to the level of labour input , which takes account of the length of the working year , then zero growth is recorded from 1951 ; and from the mid 1960s it turned into an actual decline at over 1 per cent per annum . |
| 15 | ‘ What greenhorns you are , ’ said Glenda Grower , shaking her great mass of long , auburn hair from over her eyes . |
| 16 | DMB and B Result , which had a link with a big international agency , went bust recently with a net deficit of over IR£0.5m . |
| 17 | After about forty minutes Van Gelder moved up into the bows with a portable six-inch searchlight which , on such a clear night , had an effective range of over a mile . |
| 18 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 19 | Because the company has been on its present site for over a century it recognises its responsibilities to the environment and to the local community . |
| 20 | Right , so you think that Margaret Thatcher , having been Prime Minister for over a decade and having nominated her heir apparent , and having left in erm a rather tearful manner and being pushed out , you think that she said ‘ right , from now on it 's hands off ’ ? |
| 21 | The earl had successfully held minor raids near Carlisle , apparently launched to sound out the defences of the western march , and at Berwick the garrison , with the help of George Dunbar , that angry refugee from over the border , poacher turned forester , had decisively defeated a party of four hundred Scots . |
| 22 | The conference , the first general feminist-socialist conference for over a decade , attracted over 400 women from across the country . |
| 23 | For years , neglected in the centre of Oxford , it 's been a rest-spot for the weary taxi-driver for over a century and now 's lovingly restored and converted into a shop . |
| 24 | He gave as an example the ‘ Union of Building and Repair Workers of Korea ’ with an alleged membership of over one million , which was challenged by the Soviet delegation ; subsequently the American delegation conceded it did not exist . |
| 25 | I do n't get red , I 've never have done I , its only sort of over the past sort of half year , and I do n't know why , they never started , started to go red |
| 26 | He then assumes that for each country the rate of growth of aggregate demand or nominal spending has followed a very simple process ; that is , where is the rate of growth of the ith country 's nominal spending , is the mean value of over the whole period , and is the deviation of from its mean . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've had a lot of conflicting information from over there . |
| 28 | ‘ Nothing remains a kick long , does it ? ’ said Hilary , scooping back a lock of fair hair from over his eye . |
| 29 | Consider then this year 's winner , the Mayan Indian peace-worker , Rigoberta Menchu , who has campaigned for the rights of Guatemala 's oppressed indigenous majority for over a decade . |
| 30 | Beccaria 's offer of a less radical alternative , says Jenkins , had the effect of postponing the positivist revolution for over a century . |