Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] in [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most exciting developments in biology over the past few years has been the identification of the specific genes that allow some viruses to cause cancer . |
| 2 | The remit which I set myself is to examine in outline the ways in which the political parties have both responded to and helped to shape the pertinent social collectivities in Britain over the post-war years , and how the activities of political forces have been constrained by , and have served to maintain or transform , the economic class relations of British capitalism . |
| 3 | In July 1989 there were further disturbances in Abkhazia over plans to open a section of Tbilisi University in the Abkhazian capital Sukhumi . |
| 4 | As Table 4 indicates , substantial changes took place in the structure of residential services in Nottinghamshire over the period of the study . |
| 5 | The Round Table , which has always worked closely with the Trust has organised thirteen clinics in Oxfordshire over the next fortnight . |
| 6 | However , in a few cases there were serious disputes in families over questions of inheritance , apparently always followed by very cool relationships between the parties , or ceasing contact altogether . |
| 7 | In 1982 , he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Foreign Office minister Cranley Onslow , but resigned after just six days in protest over a dispute involving Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | VERBAL fireworks in Liverpool over how government officials compile Bonfire Night injury figures have hit their target . |
| 9 | There were characteristic variations in waveform over the left temporal region as a function of different spoken letters , but no parallel changes were recorded over the corresponding region of the right hemisphere . |
| 10 | Analysis of the moment-by-moment changes in performance over a ten-minute period has shown that while the sleep-deprived subject may be performing well at the beginning , all responses are slowed towards the end , as well as frank lapses occurring . |
| 11 | Intensive diplomatic activity in the first half of September included ( i ) meetings by the UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz in Amman on Aug. 31-Sept. 1 , which the former described on Sept. 2 as disappointing ; ( ii ) numerous visits to the region and bilateral consultations , including Baker 's tour of the Gulf and European capitals , and a Gulf visit on Aug. 31-Sept. 5 by UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd , which was marked by hostile demonstrations in Jordan over British policy ; and ( iii ) the superpower summit meeting in Helsinki on Sept. 9 . |
| 12 | The balance between the two varied according to economic circumstances , and it is very difficult for us to reconstruct the nature of these services in detail over a wide area before the thirteenth century . |
| 13 | THE sickening events in Romania over the past few days now leave Albania as the last resort of old-style Stalinism . |
| 14 | First , there have been substantial improvements in mortality over this century which are reflected in increased life expectancy . |
| 15 | Rosemary teaches people with learning difficulties at Oulton Broad while Marlene has taught many classes in Suffolk over the past 20 years ( including 50+ groups ) , assisted with the Norfolk Training Course , and has brought several teams of class members to perform items at our Annual Reunions . |
| 16 | There have been considerable changes in vocabulary and slight changes in pronunciation over the last fifty years . |
| 17 | The plan is to sell 20,000 games in Sheffield over the Christmas period that is , 1 in 20 homes . |
| 18 | Many commentators have suggested that non-manual workers enjoy considerable advantages in employment over their manual counterparts : they tend to enjoy more job security , work shorter hours , have longer holidays , more fringe benefits , and have greater promotion prospects ( Table 7 below illustrates some of these points ) . |
| 19 | The decision to increase American aid reflected the ‘ dramatic changes in Poland over the past two months ’ , said Mr Fitzwater . |
| 20 | Harvey 's own house in Hayle , Cornwall , is an elegant Regency villa with floral swags in stucco over the windows . |
| 21 | In fact it has been known since the late 1950s ( see for example Nature , vol. 208 , p 423 ) that Po is widely distributed in the environment , and in man , as a result of atmospheric fall-out of the decay products of natural radon-222 , with an abundance in northern temperate latitudes of about 0.06 curie per sq.km or of the order of 10 6 curies in total over the surface of the world land mass . |
| 22 | As some of these private functions of unions have been taken over by welfare state agencies , unions have taken on other roles — especially representing their members in legal or industrial tribunals in claims over redundancy , discrimination , and negligence . |
| 23 | ‘ Our aim is to raise low wages in Britain over time so that the lowest-paid worker will receive an hourly rate not less than two-thirds of that received by the male median full-time worker . ’ |
| 24 | There were reports of anti-government demonstrations in Armenia over the defeat . |
| 25 | Split There were two or more correct hypotheses in sequence over the region of the hand-transcribed phoneme . |
| 26 | Such is the importance of these events that none of the radical changes in Japan over the last 150 years can be properly understood without reference to them . |
| 27 | CB is also most unlikely to reach its ambitious goal of generating half its earnings outside France by 1992 , despite having started 20 new businesses in Europe over the last few years . |
| 28 | With two games in hand over all of the teams above them they are still well-placed for an automatic promotion spot . |
| 29 | Agriculture has learned to respond quickly to technical advances and has achieved greater increases in productivity over the last 25 years than any other industry . |
| 30 | Book illustration is a field marked by sharp increases in price over the last two decades . |