Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spillover effect of safety demands on costs , coupled with an economic recession , had effectively resulted in no new nuclear stations being ordered in the United States for over a decade . |
| 2 | He might have told her that in the United States for over a decade now , the journals and magazines and guide-to-life books , aided and abetted by manufacturers , traders , and advertisers , had sung the song of the perfect home and the perfect homemaker . |
| 3 | Might this , one wonders , be one of the names that Albert Gunther so helpfully supplied Gould with over a chop at the British Museum ? |
| 4 | Its ten pavilions were to serve Paris for over a century and to take their place in the city 's folklore . |
| 5 | Madeleine had been in Paris for over a month , and was still ignorant of the fate of Jeanne . |
| 6 | A cyclist who 's been in prison in Nepal for over a month could be freed later this week . |
| 7 | That 's when Mrs Marsh from over the road comes and sits with her while I get to the shops . |
| 8 | Trade with Russia might survive if the Muscovy Company went out of business , but it was not easy to imagine that trade with Hudson Bay ( with all that it did for London furriers and re-exporters ) could continue if the Company lost its trading rights , and the Royal African Company was believed to be necessary for the slave trade until the 1690s , and the East India Company kept its position in trade with India for over a century after that . |
| 9 | Over this period , Italy expanded its output of machinery by two-thirds , Germany by over a half and the French by a tenth . |