Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] over [art] " in BNC.

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1	But it appears to me that the whole trend of authority for over a century is clearly against permitting any such investigation .
2	Now that the shouting is over and the most homophobic piece of legislation for over a century is on the statute books , lesbians and gays are picking themselves up and asking if our involvement with local government was really worth the effort .
3	Mr Baker said the main area of concern for over the next few years was ‘ serious downturn ’ in the economies of export markets in Europe and Japan .
4	Trade with Russia might survive if the Muscovy Company went out of business , but it was not easy to imagine that trade with Hudson Bay ( with all that it did for London furriers and re-exporters ) could continue if the Company lost its trading rights , and the Royal African Company was believed to be necessary for the slave trade until the 1690s , and the East India Company kept its position in trade with India for over a century after that .
5	‘ You are , after all , in charge of over a thousand men .
6	Madeleine had been in Paris for over a month , and was still ignorant of the fate of Jeanne .
7	A cyclist who 's been in prison in Nepal for over a month could be freed later this week .
8	To begin with , her assertion that the U.K. undergoes ‘ extreme political shifts ’ sounds most peculiar when one considers that the same party has been in power for over a decade .
9	The measure was primarily designed to raise an additional US$500,000,000 to finance pay increases for 260,000 teachers ( on strike for over a month for an 800 per cent pay rise ) and 85,000 health workers ( on strike for three months for a minimum wage increase of 200 per cent ) .
10	My next step is to decide what I am going to use to pre-bait with over the next three weeks .
11	Creoles have been a focus of interest for linguists for over a century , because of their distinctive history .

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