Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On April 3 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) approved a standby credit of 236,000,000 special drawing rights ( US$322,000,000 ) for Czechoslovakia over the next 12 months . |
| 2 | But it was n't all gloom for Cauthen over the week-end and a brilliant ride landed the Irish St Leger on Mashaallah . |
| 3 | De Gaulle had made of France 's relations with the United States and the rest of NATO , what Ceauşescu seemed to do for Romania over the next decade within the Warsaw pact . |
| 4 | Despite writing a pet column for the Daily Telegraph for more than four years , I have been given no information at all about Crufts over the past two years . |
| 5 | She told me more or less the same story as Eric — that they are reserving double the usual amount of space for Jefferson over the second half of the year . ’ |
| 6 | The project aims to rectify this omission for England over the period 1650-1914 by the construction of national rent index , and then to investigate two further problems : a regional breakdown of the index to see of there was a space-related differentiated land market ; and secondly to focus attention on three periods of outstanding agricultural depression within the long run to see whether there was a time-related differentiation . |
| 7 | Harcourt 's reasons for fleeing Normandy are not entirely clear : he was at odds with the Comte of Tancarville over the office of Chamberlain of Normandy , and he appears to have had personal grievances against Philip VI . |
| 8 | John Farrant will be talking about the development of Brighton over the past three hundred years and how patterns of trade and commerce have tended to repeat themselves . |
| 9 | Jürgen Happenstiel-Imhausen , chairman of Imhausen-Chemie , resigned at the end of March over the affair and was arrested on May 9 . |
| 10 | ‘ Basing myself on long experience of Churchill over the India Bill , I decided to disregard what he said and go straight ahead . ’ |
| 11 | In several incidents in the eastern part of Germany over the past two months the Russians have continued to act like occupiers — and drawn only mild reproof from the German government . |
| 12 | I know how long he has been concerned about the aggravated taking of vehicles and the mayhem caused by young men in parts of Nottinghamshire over the past couple of years . |
| 13 | So , Sir , I have been able to reflect on the inherent good sense of the people of Worcester over the years I have been privileged to be the Member for that constituency . |
| 14 | I have had the immense privilege of serving the people of Worcester over the past 30 years . |
| 15 | The survival of the Honours of Scotland over the centuries has depended on many loyal Scots , some known but just as many unknown . |
| 16 | ‘ It has been my privilege to see the best of England over the years , sir , within these very walls . ’ |
| 17 | The indemnity was described simply as a payment ‘ for making peace ’ , but it has been pointed out that the sum of £20,000 is close to the amount thought to have been extorted by the Scots from the northern counties of England over the years since Bannockburn , and the payment may have been seen as compensation for the destruction wrought in the north . |
| 18 | Launching a report on the changing face of England over the past 50 years , Burton called on the government to target the 150,000 hectares of derelict land in cities before it allows more building in the countryside . |
| 19 | Given the pervasive influence of the Bank of England over the UK financial system , it is no surprise that later chapters also contain a great deal of further information on its business . |
| 20 | In 610 a combined Avar-Slav army thrust across the karst , following the route of Theodosius over the Pear Tree Pass ( Hrušica ) and the Vipava valley . |
| 21 | Detailed observation of Willis over the years , however , and his general ‘ out to lunch ’ demeanour , suggested Dylan to be more a tribute to that rather vacant rabbit of Magic Roundabout fame . |
| 22 | Witness the attempt to use the impeachment process against Lincoln 's successor , Andrew Johnson ; the defeat of Wilson over the Treaty of Versailles and the routing of his party in the 1920 election . |
| 23 | In particular they have been seen as a system of colonization , and as institutions designed to ensure the military dominance of Israel over the indigenous Palestinian population . |
| 24 | Even some in new houses now want to move out because of the construction works , traffic congestion , and a general decline in the image and attractiveness of Docklands over the past three years . |
| 25 | Pour a sloppy mix of plaster of Paris over the damaged area to form a new key |
| 26 | On June 15 the UN in Geneva launched a fresh consolidated inter-agency appeal to the international community for US$541,000,000 to fund emergency assistance for populations in the Horn of Africa over the next six months . |
| 27 | At one level this meant that the exiguous legal structure of this relationship afforded much social power to the landowner , whose ability to terminate the tenancy at pleasure might hang like a sword of Damocles over the heads of his tenant farmers . |
| 28 | NINE people froze to death in the central Russian region of Chuvashia over the weekend as strong winds accompanied a sharp fall in temperature , Itar-Tass news agency said yesterday . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you know , ’ I asked a market trader as I met the fine working people of Motherwell over the weekend , ‘ that this country 's public sector borrowing requirement expressed as a percentage of Gross National Product is running at a completely unacceptable level ? ’ |
| 30 | It shocked my manager a lot too and he 's going to be concentrating on a big relaunch of Suzanne over the next while so I think it 's a good opportunity for me to take my career more into my own hands . ’ |