Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] over [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could be decisive if the company objectives stressed the need for income over that period . |
| 2 | This could be decisive if the company objectives stressed the need for income over that period . |
| 3 | ‘ I had to go up to Clapton yesterday and haggle with Antinou for hours over that bloody Egyptian cotton . |
| 4 | Instead , table 5.2 illustrates the proportions of dwellings affected ( for example , unfit ) in each area and relates this to the average for the given year for stock over all areas . |
| 5 | He could sue me for slander over this . ’ |
| 6 | The burgess might have no land at all in the fields ; but he had this right to graze his cattle after Lammas over any man 's lands , freely and wherever he liked . |
| 7 | The antislavery body also claimed effective access to government on the aspect of anti-slave trade policy which complemented suppression ; after pressure over some years for the British government to reduce discriminatory duties on commercial products from West Africa originating with information by Roscoe , duties on cotton wool , ginger , coffee and palm oil were lessened . |
| 8 | The dazzle effect of grids can be subdued by establishing a hierarchy of one set of parallels over another . |
| 9 | It had been reported to the Committee by schools operating such a series of tests that the motivation of their pupils was increased because tests at different levels provide both an incentive and evidence of progress over several terms . |
| 10 | The pace of change over those 20 years would be remarkable ; and the vital first steps rapidly followed the outbreak of war with Spain in spring 1898 . |
| 11 | Indeed Fothergill and Gudgin ( 1982 ) argue that this urban-rural shift was the main component of change over those years ( more important , that is , than changes in balance between regions ) . |
| 12 | It 's probably the , the simplest illustration is to say that over the last three or four years , we 've moved from being well below S S A to nine point four percent above S S A , now nothing 's changed other than that we 've got a slight decrease in the number of calls over this last two years . |
| 13 | As can be imagined , trying to obtain reasonable samples of the general population for relatively short interviews on such topics as voting behaviour or food preferences can result in a lot of interviewers having to call at a lot of houses over all towns and cities in the country . |
| 14 | I 'm very hopeful because er , Vietnam since nineteen eighty six has been under a process of economic and political reform , and they have released er a large amount of prisoners over this time , and there are still a number of prisoners , such as poets er religious people that are still in prison , who are hoping that , with their renewed effort and attention from the media , this 'll er be changed . |
| 15 | It is not about the promotion of one particular kind of experience over another , for this only creates the kinds of divisions so obvious in the political and religious systems of today . |
| 16 | The changes in the composition of income over this period are shown in the Table . |
| 17 | Place a slice of avocado over each slice of grapefruit and arrange attractively in lines down a serving plate . |
| 18 | Pinza was owned by Sir Victor Sassoon ( who had spent a huge amount of money over many years trying to win the Derby ) and trained by Norman Bertie . |
| 19 | Milk about three pints of milk over this . |
| 20 | Clinton 's chief henchman , Venner , was an amiable enough fellow but his conversation revolved around bear and cock fighting and the virtues of one breed of horse over another . |
| 21 | These measures would involve society in exercising directive intelligence through some appropriate organ of action over many of the intricacies of private business , yet it would leave private initiative and enterprise unhindered ’ ( quoted Estrin and Holmes , 1983 , p. 8 ) . |
| 22 | Take the 7th root of the average number of paths through our mid class utterances in order to estimate the average number of words over each region of the intended word : |
| 23 | It shows the steady increase in both sectors and modes of study over that period , to the current total of about one million . |
| 24 | Stories simply handed down by word of mouth over that length of time are likely to be less accurate than those written down from the beginning . |
| 25 | The Golden Lion is said to have had a gallery but nothing now remains , though it has been referred to by word of mouth over many years . |
| 26 | I think we ought to put a bit of sellotape over that one . |
| 27 | What variables determine a preference for one form of reference over another ? |
| 28 | In comparison , doctors in the hospital sector had a much greater measure of influence over these issues , but because of the combination of bureaucratic and collegial control , relatively less freedom over their own work practices . |
| 29 | If only that was what I felt when I looked in the mirror , instead of anxiety over these little springs of steel . |
| 30 | Some 36 years later he and his wife — the Club 's Stewardess — retired and not surprisingly , in view of their combined years of work over some extraordinarily difficult years , the Club paid special regard to their retirement needs . |