Example sentences of "[adj] amount [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The basic concept was that there should be a period of restraint to redress the balance of what has been a tremendous amount of development over the years , ’ he said , referring to the support the parish council had given to county and district while they were drawing up their local plans .
2 ‘ We have lost a tremendous amount of trade over the 14 months that the construction work has been going on and we should have been told exactly what was happening , ’ he said .
3 " Our objective is to test the law on the system of consents , by which companies are allowed to discharge limited amounts of pollutants over the course of a year " , explained a Greenpeace spokeswoman , Debbie Adams .
4 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 .
5 A stability test involves the accumulation of a substantial amount of data over a prolonged period of time and may require the production of reports at several stages of the test .
6 This argues that the volatility of futures prices will be relatively high during periods when substantial amounts of uncertainty over the levels of demand or supply for the underlying asset are resolved .
7 A House of Commons Select Committee found that local authorities had a considerable amount of discretion over what to include in or exclude from the secular curriculum .
8 She had taken a considerable amount of trouble over her appearance , she realized now , waiting for him to open the door .
9 Successful completion of a complex exercise such as this upgrade requires team work and a project team consisting of people from Services Delivery , Technical Services Systems Development and IBM have spent a considerable amount of time over the last few weeks to ensure that the upgrade when ahead without impact on Technology 's customers .
10 In summary , this study shows that ingestion of small amounts of gliadin over a lengthy period causes dose dependent damage to the small intestinal mucosa in children affected with coeliac disease .
11 A weekly competition at DPR awarded 1100 and a bottle of champagne to the AE who got in the largest amount of money over the five days .
12 What we 've done tonight , is spread that amount of money over a tremendous number of people tonight
13 Schools have always had a fair amount of control over their resources — making decisions about accommodation , capitation and so on — and their decisions have normally been used in accordance with the identified needs of the institution , whether explicitly identified or not .
14 She has a fair amount of control over her work ; ‘ being one 's own boss ’ was a phrase used by over half the sample .
15 Francis Tidbury received a certain amount of sympathy over the following few days , but the public were so outraged at the brutality involved , it carried little weight .
16 Then later , as his speed and timing improve and after gaining a certain amount of success over his own ranks , he can go a step higher and spar with a student with more experience than himself .
17 In Ipswich in particular — as stated earlier in this chapter — the development officer expressed a certain amount of frustration over institutionalised clients .
18 The broader ranks of managerial and professional employees have a degree of autonomy in their work , a degree of decision-making responsibility , and a certain amount of control over others .
19 What this means , of course , is that the user gives up a certain amount of control over the layout and the actual construction of the document .
20 They therefore had a certain amount of power over others and were also known to receive ‘ perks ’ , for example extra food from the kitchen .
21 Determinations were made at approximately 50–100 ft ( 15–30 m ) intervals from top Carboniferous to TD in each sampled well ; the minimum amount of section over which measurements were made was 18 ft ( 6 m ) and the maximum was 11240 ft ( 3425 m ) .
22 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 .
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