Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | This brought the total rise over the previous five years to 10 per cent . |
| 2 | The detailed changes to the boundary layer structure during this development are complicated , although they occupy only a small fraction of the total distance over which transition occurs . |
| 3 | The Grand National day attendance of 55,383 was nearly 1,000 down on last year and the total attendance over the three days , 87,859 , was also marginally down on 1991 . |
| 4 | Another method is to allocate the total costs over the two years on the basis of work invoiced . |
| 5 | Given the growth in his ordinary income and the difficulty of estimating its size in the early years of his reign , it would not be very useful to work out an average of the total revenue over the whole reign . |
| 6 | Despite the increase in numbers ‘ there was no very great change in the overall relationship between the consumption of cereals and the total population over the 18th century as a whole ’ ( Deane and Coale 1969 ) . |
| 7 | Although scarcely under challenge from other national groups , Russians made up a steadily diminishing proportion of the total population over the postwar period and the Russian Republic included many of the Soviet Union 's poorest farmland and most dismal cities , creating at least the impression that it was subsidising developments in more prosperous non-Russian areas . |
| 8 | Historically , the major group of offenders are 14- to 20-year-old males and these peaked as a proportion of the population in 1982 at 6.77 per cent ( of the total population over the age of 10 ) before declining to 5.99 per cent in 1988 . |
| 9 | Andrew first lost out to Dawe in 1989 , when he was dropped after the semi-final victory over Warwickshire . |
| 10 | Kevin Ball ( centre back ) : A knee injury received in the semi-final victory over Norwich threatened to wreck his Wembley dream but he has recovered and must be the leading contender to partner Anton Rogan in the centre of the defence . |
| 11 | The intensity and urgency of Galway 's hurling in the semi-final win over Tipperary surprised most people . |
| 12 | Kevin Ball , who has not played since being carried off injured in the semi-final win over Norwich , is back in contention for a place . |
| 13 | Also , the return to the international fold was marked with an emphatic victory by the Junior Springboks over Namibia . |
| 14 | Behind him was the rock-fortress of Stirling guarding the bridge , the narrow crossing over the Forth . |
| 15 | Bruce Springsteen began the Eighties with The River , an uneven double album but one which staked out the broad territory over which he would roam in the ensuing years . |
| 16 | Observers noted that Shevardnadze 's appointment was an attempt to reassure the West over the splintering of foreign policy into republican units , with the attendant worries over nuclear weapons and the co-ordination of foreign aid . |
| 17 | The initially strong emphasis on special educational needs ( and the attendant confusion over whether PNP was a special or general needs programme ) gave way to a concentration on curriculum development , mainly in response to the shifting national agenda . |
| 18 | One consequence of this is that the sharp rise in the proportion of young couples in the owner-occupied sector over the post-war period ( and the even greater number who aspire to this sector ) must have had some effect in reinforcing fertility decline in Britain in recent decades although , of course , many developed countries have also experienced declines over this period , so it would be naive to emphasize this ( or indeed any single cause ) as the sole or primary explanation . |
| 19 | The act was a considerable relaxation of earlier limitations and indeed , the progressive relaxation over the period seems to be as much a testimony to the improved load-bearing of the roads as an accommodation of the expanding volume of goods traffic . |
| 20 | His main role was to act as Tiny Rowlands 's front man in the increasingly acrimonious dispute with the Department of Trade and the Fayed brothers over the House of Fraser and Harrods . |
| 21 | Second , is the geographic area over which the restraint operates wider than is necessary ? |
| 22 | There have , of course , been many developments and improvements in the cell-casting method over the years and , while details are not disclosed , ICI has no doubt that its latest version of the process gives a better product than any other . |
| 23 | The European Commission is set to take Britain to the European Court over its failure to carry out environmental impact assessments ( EIA ) on three motorway extension projects . |
| 24 | I 'm most grateful to the honourable gentleman er of course these buildings are all related to the orders were discussing in order that M E Ps can be elected in the first place and is it not interesting to note that if agreement ca n't be reached as indeed is the position of the moment er in u what is called the European union over where actually the parliament is going to sit . |
| 25 | That gives him clout not only in tricky talks with America , Britain , France and the Soviet Union over how the new Germany will fit into Europe , but also in negotiations within the European Community over what sort of Europe it will be . |
| 26 | The dispute between America and the European Community over subsidies for Airbus is already bitter enough . |
| 27 | But the creation of the European Community over 30 years ago was inspired by the idea of no more war in Europe . |
| 28 | We wish to express concern about the above scheme which does not seem to be compatible with the environmental principles adopted by the European Community over recent years . |
| 29 | THE United States yesterday cancelled talks set for Monday with the European Community over a public procurement dispute and said sanctions were now hard to avoid . |
| 30 | AIR France has protested to the European Commission over alleged favouritism towards British Airways in recent takeover deals . |