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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had taken a considerable amount of trouble over her appearance , she realized now , waiting for him to open the door . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What we 've done tonight , is spread that amount of money over a tremendous number of people tonight |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She has a fair amount of control over her work ; ‘ being one 's own boss ’ was a phrase used by over half the sample . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In Ipswich in particular — as stated earlier in this chapter — the development officer expressed a certain amount of frustration over institutionalised clients . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They therefore had a certain amount of power over others and were also known to receive ‘ perks ’ , for example extra food from the kitchen . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |