Example sentences of "[adv] in [noun] over the " in BNC.

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1 And he says things have changed greatly in Cleveland over the last five years .
2 People want to spend their day forgetting about hard times — even if they pay it off in instalments over the next ten years .
3 She was in line as a possible replacement for Gregory , and had actually taken a bass guitar to her parent 's home in Portsmouth over the Christmas holidays to set about learning how to play The Wedding Present 's material .
4 The sun is arisen and is breaking forth in splendour over the Christian Church ( which is founded on a rock ) dispersing the clouds of night and illuminating , with his new-born light the benighted land .
5 Negotiations were still in progress over the division of the Fleet , with Ukraine , Russia and Georgia all demanding a share .
6 The Chadian Foreign Minister Ahmad Soungui said on Oct. 18 that he had had to explain to Libya that the accord was invalid , since the two countries were still in dispute over the Aouzou strip [ see p. 36841 ] .
7 Although the four former Soviet republics with nuclear weapons — Russia , Ukraine , Byelarus and Kazakhstan — were still in dispute over the fate of the former Soviet nuclear arsenal , they reiterated their intention to dismantle most of these weapons and to concentrate the remainder in Russia .
8 Yet some big securities houses are up in arms over the Elwes report .
9 I do not believe that the people of Scotland are up in arms over the fact that my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds , North-East ( Mr. Kirkhope ) is , among his many other duties , the Scottish Whip .
10 Still to come : farmers are up in arms over the Poll Tax on empty farm cottages , and forty thousand pounds from the N H S lottery comes to Oxford .
11 Pension funds increased thirtyfold in size over the twenty-five years to 1985 ; insurance companies grew fourteenfold over the same period .
12 There were some individual exceptions but the state of the Church of England seems to have changed little in Sussex over the next ninety years .
13 If one looks across the channel , as some of us have , and sees the way in which the matter is approached there , it is humiliating to consider what has gone on in Britain over the past few years .
14 Department of Health and Social Services staff throughout Northern Ireland walked out in protest over the attack , and many offices remained closed for more than a week .
15 The card will be tried out in Northampton over the next six months and should go into full production in nineteen ninety five .
16 a a step back in time over the last five years of what has been delivering and there are many thousands of customers using in that manner .
17 The patient places both arms over the ball and rolls it forwards while extending his seat backwards , and then selectively tilts his pelvis forwards and backwards , keeping his arms well in position over the gymnastic ball .
18 ‘ If you are in quality stocks with strong balance sheets in less cyclical areas of the market you will do well in equities over the next few years . ’
19 Foreign businesses , which have invested heavily in Britain over the past few years , were not left out yesterday .
20 The real stroke and the paddle stroke will drift apart in style over the years .
21 Patterns of family formation have changed significantly in Britain over the last century .
22 This has failed to move significantly in price over the last two years ; people who bought 1983 en primeur in 1984 should have left their money on deposit instead .
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