Example sentences of "[vb pp] over the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the rate of deaths , the number per one thousand live births , has also dropped over the same period , from 2.30 in 1988 to 1.44 in 1991 . |
| 2 | Taking these two points into consideration leads us to the conclusion that meaningful chain dimensions can only be values averaged over the many conformations assumed . |
| 3 | The number claiming SB has risen over the same period from three million to just under five million ( figures from CPAG ) . |
| 4 | While male activity rates have fallen steadily from 58.1 per cent in 1970 to 55.6 per cent in 1986 , female activity rates have risen over the same period from 26.6 per cent to 32.5 per cent . |
| 5 | For advanced economies , substantial changes had occurred over the latter half of the 1960s because of loss of comparative advantage in what had become basic technologies which could be mastered by low-income countries , together with changes in the nature of world demand and direct and indirect forms of trade barriers erected to protect domestic industry . |
| 6 | A gold sword hilt from the temple at Mallia shows an acrobat performing a back somersault ( Figure 29 ) ; perhaps , as Professor Alexiou suggests ( undated , p. 49 ) , in reality this feat was performed over the self-same sword planted in the ground , point upwards . |
| 7 | This tuck stitch is easy to work on the Singer Big Nine and you can see from this sample that by working with a lighter shade for the background for the first four pattern repeats followed by a darker one for the background , similar amounts of yarn have been used over the same number of rows . |
| 8 | A further 147,000 vehicles which can not be converted will have to be replaced over the same period by new ones equipped with catalytic converters . |
| 9 | The former take little account of the latter although much of the HMI 's thinking has become known over the same period i.e. the late 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 10 | Specific cellular localisation of silver grains , indicating the presence of preproET-1 mRNA , was found over the same cells that demonstrated ET-1 immunostaining . |
| 11 | The third round of talks , in May , had been halted over the same issue [ see p. 38191 ] . |
| 12 | As regards undergraduates , Table 1.2 shows the numbers of full-time and part-time students enrolled over the same period , and Table 1.3 the number of first degrees awarded in each sector . |
| 13 | Gas demand has increased from 12% to 16% of total energy consumed over the same period but the major energy source remains coal at nearly 60% of demand in 1983 . |
| 14 | This modified strategy was run over the same sets of mid , mixed and phonemic utterances reported in the previous section . |
| 15 | I do not know how many men have since gone over the same wall , but there have been several even recently . |
| 16 | Extra-judicial killings by the security forces increased over the same period . |
| 17 | This is not the result of patients being ‘ switched ’ into a different mental health category since the incidence of other types of illness has not increased over the same period . |
| 18 | By contrast , palaeontology had increased over the same periods , from 14 to 25 , not quite doubling . |
| 19 | Third , downward mobility from positions in the service class to other class positions has steadily decreased over the same time span ( A. H. Halsey , A. F. Heath and John Ridge , Origins and Destinations , Oxford University Press , 1980 ) . |
| 20 | For nearly ten years a jungle war of incredible savagery had been fought over the same jungle tracks and expanses of savanna grassland where a decade later the Americans would lose to the Vietcong . |
| 21 | Meanwhile relations between Childebert and Guntram had soured over the latter 's treatment of lands once held by Sigibert . |