Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | has said about most cases being unfounded though Mr McPhee does say that they ( the travellers ) do not stay on permanent sites whereas there has been a constant settlement of varying numbers of caravans over the past two years . |
| 2 | " Our objective is to test the law on the system of consents , by which companies are allowed to discharge limited amounts of pollutants over the course of a year " , explained a Greenpeace spokeswoman , Debbie Adams . |
| 3 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 4 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 5 | Austin Texas-based Alliance Technologies Inc will introduce TextMachine , a set of tools for indexing , storing and accessing large volumes of documents over client/server architectures . |
| 6 | The giant ground sloths and armadillos of the past were clearly South American in character , showing that this continent had been populated by unique families of animals over a vast period of time . |
| 7 | People also experience radically unequal patterns of earnings over the span of their working lives as employees . |
| 8 | ONE of the great advantages of villages over cities for chronic insomniacs , such as I am , is that late at night there is nothing to do in a village except read . |
| 9 | One of the major advantages of letters over telephone conversations is that they provide a permanent record . |
| 10 | Despite this minimal preparation , and regular changes of personnel over the past fortnight , they achieved a wholly implausible blend of skill , aggression and indomitable spirit . |
| 11 | It is proposed to focus on insider dealing within financial conglomerates because of the probable extent of such trading , that is , the degree to which insider dealing probably occurs ; the damage it causes , both economically ( through the disruption of the efficient allocation of scarce economic resources ) , and socially ( through losses in public confidence in the operation of the financial markets ) ; and finally , the problem of detection ( self-evident from the low levels of prosecutions over recent years ) . |
| 12 | To say anything sensible about ( d ) and ( c ) , substantial long-term studies of changes over time as well as in different places are called for . |
| 13 | well it was real value buy buying nine bags of nuts over Christmas was n't it ? |
| 14 | It is understood Cork is in dispute with a number of American firms of lawyers over unpaid fees , which the lawyers claim run into many millions of dollars . |
| 15 | For example there were 367 recorded deaths of buzzards over a ten year period , although according to the RSPB the real figure is likely to be ten times that number . |
| 16 | The project will examine the religious activities of women over an area of Northern Greece . |
| 17 | While a broad historical trend was noted towards the limitation of the once near-absolute rights of parents over children by state agencies , with the declared objective of protecting the child 's interests and welfare , it seemed that in recent policies a number of different themes could be identified , involving potentially conflicting values and assumptions about children , parents , the state and the rights and roles of different parties in the child care situation . |
| 18 | Even if the other district had its own system , it was unlikely that there was much communication between the two sets of officials over such matters . |
| 19 | There are abundant examples of good new uses for churches and many of these have only emerged in the final stages of battles over individual churches . |
| 20 | In April 1985 a tanker spilled 200 litres of PCBs over the main Trans-Canada Highway on the border between Ontario and Manitoba . |