Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as differing from place to place , what is defined as crime changes over time . |
| 2 | An issue for research libraries over the next few years is to seize the opportunity offered by technology for enrichment of OPACs as electronic access tools . |
| 3 | The abolition of tax concessions for home owners over the next two years , along with continued falls in house prices , will trigger a stampede to rent , it says . |
| 4 | Lord Aldington — formerly Brigadier Toby Low — who is suing for libel damages over allegations that he is guilty of war crimes , denied a suggestion by Richard Rampton QC , for the defence , that he was responsible for drafting the 23 May request . |
| 5 | An excess of GP referrals over other referrals of women informally admitted was matched by an excess of female over male GP referrals who were informally admitted . |
| 6 | We 've got a lot of electronics wizards over here you know . ’ |
| 7 | The Human Development Report 1992 released by the UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) on April 23 showed that the doubling of income disparities over the last 30 years had enabled " the richest 20 per cent of the world 's people [ to become ] … at least 150 times more than the poorest 20 per cent " . |
| 8 | Given the close relationship between three month interbank rates and base rates , this provides a good guide to the money market 's expectation of the path of base rates over the next twelve months . |
| 9 | The librarian should normally plan a long-term programme of stock revisions over a period of , say , one to three years , selecting a number of specified priority subjects to be revised during that period . |
| 10 | Given the halving of living standards over the past year , this was an even more remarkable result . |
| 11 | While the actual canals , together with their locks , bridges and wharfs , have their own intrinsic interest , far more significant is the fact that they allowed the easy and cheap movement of bulk cargoes over long distances . |
| 12 | There are a large number of research projects over a wide range of topics in health and health care : what health is and how it is to be valued , what influences health , the demand for and supply of health care , market equilibria and micro evaluation of treatments to system evaluation and the efficacy of planning , budgeting and monitoring mechanisms available to policy makers . |
| 13 | LANGLEY manager Vic Hillier is to resign at the end of the season amid question marks over the club 's future . |
| 14 | The Nottingham Pest Control branch have had a spate of vehicle thefts over recent months . |
| 15 | Pensions Under Irish GAAP , the expected cost of providing pensions to employees is charged to the profit and loss account as incurred over the period of employment of pensionable employees , with any surplus or deficit of plan obligations over plan assets amortized to the income statement over the expected future service lives of the active employees , at a fixed proportion of pensionable pay . |
| 16 | Fighting in the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan has intensified meanwhile in the run-up to the latest round of peace talks over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh . |
| 17 | We have announced a number of job losses over the past 12 months which have arisen as a result of er an internal cost cutting exercise to make our research more er cost effective , and also as a result of decisions by the Government and the electricity supply industry who have cut down their funding for basic research into reactor technology . |
| 18 | The article was a review of process developments over the years and the way changing technology has impacted on fuel design . |
| 19 | The second aspect is the relative stability in the proportion of transport workers over the two decades , despite , as we know from Figure 3.1 , the job losses that have occurred in the transport service industries since the 1960s . |
| 20 | And the local MP , Bob Litherland , revealed that he had warned the Home Office of security worries over the building . |
| 21 | Monitoring is necessary in order to limit the tendency of team members to ‘ shirk ’ , that is , to increase leisure and reduce effort ‘ on the job ’ ( they explain the existence of the firm by reference to the superiority of internal monitoring through observation of the behaviour of team members over monitoring of teams by market competition ) . |
| 22 | Without doubt , the most important use of tax havens over the past 10 years has been to save ( or defer ) capital gains tax . |
| 23 | One of the main reasons for the poverty trap is the decline of tax thresholds over the years , as well as the relatively heavy rates of direct taxation on low incomes . |
| 24 | In the UK at present , the public sector is in substantial budget surplus , ( ie the excess of tax receipts over government spending ) . |
| 25 | There have been a number of business failures over the past , very difficult , few months , but I hasten to add that the level of new business start-ups remains resilient and robust . |
| 26 | LIVERPOOL has had more than its share of pop stars over the years . |
| 27 | They will be self-financing , since we aim to raise 20 billion by way of pollution taxes over the first five year of Government . |
| 28 | Based on this information , meteorological and atmospheric dispersion models are employed to predict the spatial distribution of pollution concentrations over the area . |
| 29 | But the main restriction on senior house officers ' training is the overwhelming dominance of service commitments over training requirements . |
| 30 | They have grown in importance in recent years as a way of financing trade , and in particular of tiding firms over the period from when they have to buy inputs to when they are able to sell the finished output . |