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

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1 Recession has hit some towns harder than others , and Bookland branches reflected this in sales over the Christmas period ranging from 20% up to declines of 15%l ‘ Overall takings will be up by a few points , but volume will be very slightly down . ’
2 Below : Dan Keller 's NA-64 Yale N3406 leads another in formation over the New York State greensward .
3 Masons seem to have earned around 15s in London over the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century , and if employment was regular , that seems to represent a " middle line " for metropolitan artisans until the steeply inflationary 1790s .
4 The details were such that Austria and England were nearly involved in war over the matter .
5 The case for such objective assessment before operation seems particularly strong in women over the age of 50 because they may have suffered occult damage to the anal sphincter during the childbirth and could be at particular risk of a poor functional outcome if the sphincter were to sustain further damage at the time of operation .
6 Research shows 60 per cent of those in homes over the age of 70 have impaired hearing , yet less than one-quarter have hearing aids .
7 The ending of mining rights would lead to a loss of some 20,000 jobs and $ 2 billion in revenue over the next seven years .
8 This led commentators to predict a widening of the rift between Klaus and Havel already evident in differences over the pace of market economic reforms , and even a split in Civic Forum .
9 The increasing stocking density evident in Powys over the last 3 decades also explains the broadleaved woodland regeneration problem and clarifies why such woods are now often grazed to billiard table-like turf when in the more distant past grazing levels must have been low enough to allow regeneration .
10 Life has certainly been tough in Poland over the past year .
11 And I noticed that the skin was hanging loose in folds over the shoulder and behind it , as if it had fit a rounder form yesterday , before the rigours of birth .
12 Of this total , SDR33,600,000 ( about US$45 million ) were available in instalments over the next 12 months under a standby arrangement .
13 The failure of a chromosome to split properly is much more common in women over the age of about 35 — the older the woman is the more likely she is to have a baby with Down 's .
14 The centre has been allocated £10 million in funds over the next five years .
15 At a World Bank-sponsored meeting in Paris on Oct. 27 leading developed countries and multilateral agencies approved a further $2,200 million in aid over the three years 1990-92 .
16 He was active in Westmorland over the forced loan .
17 The better opinion is that the pre-1926 priorities of the legal over the equitable estate , and of the earlier in time over the later , still apply , except in so far as they are abrogated by the provisions of the 1925 legislation .
18 The stimulus for the reopening of dialogue ( broken off by North Korea in early 1990 in protest over the annual joint South Korean-United States " Team Spirit " military exercise ) came from the North in late June , following improving relations between South Korea and the Soviet Union [ see p. 37533 ] .
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