Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the cost of physical imports has exceeded the value of exported products for over a century . |
| 2 | some shit from over here : |
| 3 | Yes I suppose it 's true that for somebody like me I 've been involved in quite a lot of different groups over over the years and the quarry men 's support group is it 's difficult to put in words really er exactly how it 's erm you know I think it 's very easy f for groups to become sort of s set really and er well I 've always wanted it to involve everybody and I think it does that in a way it sort of er it 's quite special to all of us in in a funny sort of way it 's er you know we feel quite committed . |
| 4 | ‘ Because that 's exactly what Charlie would n't want them to do : start anything without a clear directive from over here . |
| 5 | The snowdrops at Painswick have been a popular attraction for over a century . |
| 6 | In June the Interior Ministry reorganized and took direct control of over one-third of the main departments . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Additional benefits of tree-lined streams , in reducing the effects of nitrates and phosphates in the water and in shading out the choking growth of summer weed in a river bed , which may otherwise necessitate further expensive dredging , have been recognized by Dutch and German scientists for over a decade . |
| 9 | Oh I think I might just put some petrol in over there . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ] . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You know what I mean : people expect you to talk about dark strangers from over the water and golden fortunes coming their way . |
| 16 | After all , if you can borrow ( or exchange your existing UK mortgage where you are paying rates at the highest level in real terms for over a century ) for a Swiss franc mortgage at around 9.5 per cent , a mark mortgage at just under 10 per cent , an Ecu mortgage ( Ecu is the European currency unit which is made up of a ‘ basket ’ of 10 currencies including sterling ) at about 10 per cent or a Japanese yen mortgage at just under 8 per cent , why not do so ? |
| 17 | Was there much trouble over over blackleg firms in ? |
| 18 | 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% . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Working from the artists ' chance selections , Heinrichsmeyer created geometric paintings resembling those of the De Stijl group , which he in turn transposed onto the planar surfaces of over one hundred cubic armchairs . |
| 21 | ‘ What greenhorns you are , ’ said Glenda Grower , shaking her great mass of long , auburn hair from over her eyes . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ’ ? |
| 28 | In 1986/87 , 70% of mergers involved firms with combined sales of over 1 billion ecus , whereas the figure in 1988/89 was over 90% . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The conference , the first general feminist-socialist conference for over a decade , attracted over 400 women from across the country . |