Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , he says , will be increased to £40m to allow for the insulation of 250,000 low income homes over the next year . |
| 2 | The Deserted Medieval Village Research Group ( now the Medieval Villages Research Group ) , which was formed in 1952 as a multi-disciplinary research body , drawing in geographers , historians , and archaeologists as well as natural scientists , has revolutionised our concepts of rural settlement changes over the last 2000 years . |
| 3 | Sadly , however , his delicate tidiness is wasted-the bin is a bottomless shell and the liquid vomit showers over the wall , on to his trousers . |
| 4 | At the same time he introduced progressive speed trials over the measured mile for all vessels built at the yard . |
| 5 | It may mean also that strikes are openly directed against state policy as much as against management 's negotiating position , as with the French public sector strike in the mid-1960s against government fixing of the total wage bill ( Dubois 1975 : 114–15 ) , or the wave of public sector conflicts over the Spanish government 's wage control and restructuring policies in early 1987 . |
| 6 | Hung safety chains over the outgoing pipes here and at the upstream connection manhold . |
| 7 | Data are not available about changes in socio-economic access to social security benefits over the years . |
| 8 | Salinity on density surfaces close to the temperature and salinity minimum of LSW from the CONVEX-91 northern section shows two main features ( Fig. 2 b ) : first , an increase in salinity from west to east ( high salinity values over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Rockall plateau are probably the result of enhanced mixing over the topography ) ; second , a change in the density surface of the salinity minimum . |
| 9 | Trends in Old Master drawings over the last twelve years analysed by Professor Victor Ginsburgh and Nicholas Schwed of Brussels University , who apply a new methodology |
| 10 | The study comes at a time when many health authorities are reducing the number of clinics and there has been a 35% rise in teenage pregnancy rates over the last 10 years . |
| 11 | Significant differences can be detected in the technological edge of the high technology industries over the medium technology industries : |
| 12 | Many punk bands extended this antagonism to all established rock musicians over the age of twenty-five . |
| 13 | The Imperial Dry Dock measured 167.6 metres by 21.3 metres with 7.7 metres at ordinary Spring Tides over the sill . |
| 14 | Anne Owers , director of Justice , a charity which investigates alleged miscarriages of justice , also says there are serious question marks over the conviction , which she describes as ‘ dodgy ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ It is a matter of some regret ’ , he writes , ‘ that the Court did not see fit to investigate civil law developments over the twelve year period since Corbett was decided . ’ |
| 16 | Approaches such as these should lead to further major advances in our understanding of these fascinating and versatile transport systems over the next decade . |
| 17 | Taylor ( 1964 ) in particular noted that the distribution of GSRs over distance travelled corresponded very closely to the distribution of actual accident figures over the same distance . |
| 18 | This project aims at monitoring by quantitative analysis some aspects of changes in the structure of British central government departments over the dozen years from 1972 to date . |
| 19 | We obviously also monitored the sales of our savings , mortgages and Balanced Banking arrangements over the same periods . |
| 20 | This run of Tory election victories over the 1950s prompted the speculation at the time that the Tories had managed to establish themselves as the ‘ natural party of government ’ . |
| 21 | The Director of Public Prosecutions will decide in the next few weeks if BR must face corporate manslaughter charges over the disaster on December 12 which claimed 35 lives . |
| 22 | The main shift , however , is in the new emphasis the White Paper is bound to place on intervention and regulation , words that have been regarded as mostly unpalatable in Tory conference debates over the past decade . |
| 23 | Scurrilous newspaper allegations over the years have hinted at blackmail , involving an unsavoury incident in the Walborough shower , forged Sheffield Wednesday rosettes and a second-hand Ford Popular Reg sold to Ken Mentle in 1954 . |
| 24 | THE All England Club has been cleared of unfair trading practices over the sale of Wimbledon tickets . |
| 25 | IBM says it competed with Amdahl Corp , Unisys Corp and some of the top-end Unix vendors over the contract , which was signed last December , but won out because of its integration skills . |
| 26 | I 'm talking about saving human life governments over the last twenty years , troops over the last twenty years , policemen over the last twenty years , laws over the last twenty years , and politicians , including myself , have all failed in all the efforts that we 've made including condemnation of violence , everything , but I am now saying that this dialogue is the best hope I 've seen or , surely I 'm entitled to say to the Prime Minister , alright given that I have said that why do n't you put me to the test ? |
| 27 | The company , which has already dipped its toe into the end-user market with firms such as the Bank of Montreal , Library of Congress , Equitable Life and Safeway , would be happy to win just five to ten large SNA accounts over the next year . |
| 28 | Water was poured into large clay pots over the plant material ( usually cedarwood ) and the pot openings were covered in woollen fibres . |
| 29 | All too clearly , he remembered the long procession of terribly mutilated corpses , stretched out on cold mortuary slabs over the past five years , in the wake of the man 's bloodlust . |
| 30 | Specimen jar of sea water in hand , she cheerfully highlighted the embarrassing prospect of European Court prosecutions over the pollution of nearby pleasure beaches . |