Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know what I mean : people expect you to talk about dark strangers from over the water and golden fortunes coming their way . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've had a lot of conflicting information from over there . |
| 3 | In fact the cost of physical imports has exceeded the value of exported products for over a century . |
| 4 | Yes I suppose it 's true that for somebody like me I 've been involved in quite a lot of different groups over over the years and the quarry men 's support group is it 's difficult to put in words really er exactly how it 's erm you know I think it 's very easy f for groups to become sort of s set really and er well I 've always wanted it to involve everybody and I think it does that in a way it sort of er it 's quite special to all of us in in a funny sort of way it 's er you know we feel quite committed . |
| 5 | ‘ Nothing remains a kick long , does it ? ’ said Hilary , scooping back a lock of fair hair from over his eye . |
| 6 | In 1986/87 , 70% of mergers involved firms with combined sales of over 1 billion ecus , whereas the figure in 1988/89 was over 90% . |
| 7 | Government officials announced that spending would be cut by 15 per cent and civil service recruitment by 40 per cent , with consequent savings of over KSh600,000,000 . |
| 8 | After all , if you can borrow ( or exchange your existing UK mortgage where you are paying rates at the highest level in real terms for over a century ) for a Swiss franc mortgage at around 9.5 per cent , a mark mortgage at just under 10 per cent , an Ecu mortgage ( Ecu is the European currency unit which is made up of a ‘ basket ’ of 10 currencies including sterling ) at about 10 per cent or a Japanese yen mortgage at just under 8 per cent , why not do so ? |
| 9 | As the Thatcher government gradually recovered from a shaky and difficult start to retain power by a hugely increased majority in 1983 , followed by another overwhelming electoral triumph ( in seats if not in votes ) in 1987 and as the spectacle was observed in 1989 of a Prime Minister remaining in unchallenged power for over a decade , comparable to Lord Liverpool if not yet Robert Walpole in the past , the belief took hold that the values and style of modern Britain had been transformed . |
| 10 | Yet these have also been the first two years of the Making Belfast Work programme , which if we are to believe the glossies , is the answer to structural unemployment of over one third of the workforce in West Belfast , using even the government 's definition of being unemployed . |
| 11 | On July 12 the Chamber of Accounts of the Alpes-Maritimes département had issued an interim verdict holding Médecin responsible for irregular payments of over F13,000,000 ( approximately US$2,400,000 ) in public funds to a Paris finance house during an exercise in 1986 to restructure Nice city council 's debts ; he had been given until Sept. 17 to explain himself , ahead of a final ruling due in November . |