Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [prep] over " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Drawn up by the Council for Economic Planning and Development , the plan involved expenditure of the equivalent of over US$300,000 million on 779 projects , including road , rail and subway systems , petrochemical and other heavy industry installations , a fourth nuclear power station and new pollution-control facilities . |
2 | The tendency to contract arises from the both the polymer-polymer interactions and the resistance to expansion of the chain into over extended and energetically less favoured conformations . |
3 | In early December a former Kuwaiti minister had estimated total costs resulting from the invasion at over US$40,000 million , half as a result of destruction and looting , and half as a result of the freezing of Kuwaiti foreign assets , losses to private businesses and unrealized oil production . |
4 | Church bells ringing out the old year from the tower at Over Stowey probably formed a distant accompaniment to Coleridge 's first night in the Lime Street cottage . |
5 | Did she bail herself out in the end with over her money situation . |
6 | Did she bail herself out in the end with over her money situation ? |
7 | The pub has been in the family for over a century . |
8 | What would you say to the criticism that by opening up new routes you simply add to the problem of over capacity , and so there 's less money for everyone ? |
9 | ‘ It will be a disaster if the current team is maintained , ’ said the former India captain , whose left-arm spin mesmerised batsmen around the world for over a decade . |