Example sentences of "[adv] over [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some bank loans are provided in the form of a standby-credit or commitment which means a bank will provide funds if required to do so over a stated period , either on a fixed or floating rate basis . |
| 2 | The larger unincorporated industrial towns could petition for incorporation under this Act and many did so over the following years . |
| 3 | We tended to think of Sandy as a liability because he had been so over the past years . |
| 4 | Now an endowment is obviously based on a principle of interest only on l loan , so over the same term , of twenty years , you 've only ever paid interest off the loan and you still owe th a after twenty years , you 'd still owe the building society ten thousand pounds . |
| 5 | America inherited Britain 's thankless task of trying to maintain a semblance of stability in the Middle East , and has been singularly unsuccessful in doing so over the three decades that have passed since Suez . |
| 6 | I hope that the waiting list for cardiac surgery will reduce greatly over the next year . |
| 7 | This happens only over a limited Reynolds number range . |
| 8 | I 'm not , it 's only over a two week period , they 're jammed in , I 'm getting in several days , all I have is three exams |
| 9 | The " good years " of textile out-workers , for example , began before the war but lasted only over the first half of it . |
| 10 | The appellate jurisdiction of the Paris Parlement not only over the three dioceses of Limoges , Càhors and Périgueux , but the whole of the duchy , meant that a constant ducal presence at Paris was necessary . |
| 11 | The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century . |
| 12 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 13 | Advisers say the change — aimed at meeting European Community moves towards equality for the sexes — should be phased in over a 15-year period . |
| 14 | The tax will be phased in over a three-year period from July 1994 . |
| 15 | Given that this reform will hit hardest those firms with most part-time workers , it is suggested that this change is phased in over a five-year period . |
| 16 | Bush did not indicate how the changes , which were to be phased in over a five-year period at a cost of up to $100,000 million , would be financed . |
| 17 | He did this willingly and without complaint , often coming in over a complete weekend in order to have all the new cards out by the end of August which was largely achieved . ’ |
| 18 | This level of pay was never conceived of as being a realizable objective for a statutory minimum wage that would be brought in over a short period of time . |
| 19 | SCOTVEC 's new system of Advanced Courses will be phased in over a three year period . |
| 20 | Leaning in over the sleeping child I must have wanted to see myself as the angel , hovering in protection of an infant who was so obviously in peril . |
| 21 | He became aware of the disapproving looks his noisy party were receiving from some of the older locals who had drifted in over the last hour . |
| 22 | Certainly not the army of supporters who 've been painting , odd-jobbing and generally mucking in over the past week . |
| 23 | The plaudits have been pouring in over the past weeks , as the following reports show . |
| 24 | You add up all the bills you know will come in over the next year — plus a bit more for contingencies — and divide by twelve . |
| 25 | The free edge of the epidermis has clearly moved in over the marked wound mesenchyme , leaving less than 10% of it exposed by this stage . |
| 26 | In the morning clouds boiled ominously over the distant Baltoro peaks as we cramponed to the start of the east ridge . |
| 27 | Passing swiftly over the visual arts bit — a series of paintings of living artists by Zsuzsi Roboz suggestive of nothing so much as chalk drawings on the pavements of Charing Cross Road — Mr Roosen is also offering ‘ complementary and holistic programmes for use in the private and corporate sectors worldwide ’ . |
| 28 | But it did n't move too swiftly over the rocky soil , and I began to doubt if it would reach me before the deadly rain finished me off . |
| 29 | Work on the Quality Development Programme has already started and will continue apace over the next year . |
| 30 | ‘ And a holiday abroad each year to make up for not seeing you much over the past while ! ’ |