Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [prep] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fleischmann then showed a proposal that he and Pons had submitted to the Department of Energy ( DOE ) in Washington requesting financial support for them to carry through a definitive series of experiments over a period of three years . |
| 2 | By using the dichotomy between ‘ public ’ and ‘ private ’ , the Wolfenden Committee was able to propose an extended series of controls over prostitutes , particularly over those who were highly visible , although the law — the Street Offences Act 1959 — in practice has also been extended to other less visible sectors of prostitution . |
| 3 | In a remarkable series of investigations over the past four years , the MMC has examined the practices in beer , petroleum , and motor vehicle supply . |
| 4 | Elsewhere , Midland Bank reported profits much in line with expectations , helping the shares to a 4 pence rise to 351 pence , while Courtald lost 5 pence to 377 pence on concerns over their proposed textile de-merger plans . |
| 5 | Long experience suggests that magnetic disks have seen off a long series of challenges over the past 15 years — but a review of the survival and thriving of the technology gives a very partial and inadequate view . |
| 6 | The plan to make unions responsible for unofficial action arose out of the strikes in the summer on the London Underground , where an informal group of drivers and guards led a long series of stoppages over pay . |
| 7 | Thomas Huxley , the great biologist , whose household was dominated by a long series of cats over a period of forty years , described how one of them , a young tabby tom-cat , developed the alarming game of jumping on the shoulders of his dinner-guests and refusing to dismount until they fed him some titbit . |
| 8 | And it has suffered an extraordinary series of mishaps over the past decade . |
| 9 | There have been an enormous series of changes over the last ten or fifteen years , and maybe some school teachers would be glad if it slowed down a little bit to make their life a little easier , I do n't know . |
| 10 | This is not good news for Leeds who are coming upto a difficult series of games over the next month . |
| 11 | Though they admitted a whole series of assaults over the previous three years , they disputed their frequency , he said in his closing speech . |
| 12 | This had led to a lengthy series of negotiations over the sort of contracts which should bind printers in his new plant . |