Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fig. 9.1 Age-sex profiles for Great Britain over a period of 130 years . |
| 2 | A total of 62% of firms said they expected to lose clients through business failures over the next 12 months , the largest area of concern ; 54% named cash flow as an area of concern , while 47% named staff overheads and 38% property overheads . |
| 3 | To sail over a wave without jumping you need to unhook and let your legs absorb the rising wave — rather like a skier uses his legs as shock absorbers over bumps . |
| 4 | The abolition of tax concessions for home owners over the next two years , along with continued falls in house prices , will trigger a stampede to rent , it says . |
| 5 | It has also been clear in his methods of training orchestras over long periods of time . |
| 6 | Too full to speak , Paige slid her arm about his waist and let the hovering waves of sleep drift over her . |
| 7 | He stood looking down at her and Maggie felt waves of anxiety wash over her . |
| 8 | It may be that the Minoans enjoyed the social and diplomatic aspects of long-drawn-out negotiations over the price of a cargo with Egyptian , Cypriot , or Trojan merchants . |
| 9 | President Bush signed into law on Dec. 18 a transport bill which allocated $119,000 million of federal funds to road construction over a six-year period , and $31,500 million to mass transit . |
| 10 | There has been a plethora of books on country houses over the last ten years , but author and illustrator Peter Morter and Brian Delf , have found a new and intriguing approach . |
| 11 | Although he refused to speak against Gates , who had supported his election , Bush announced that Attorney General Thornburgh had begun a national review of the 15,000 complaints made to the federal government concerning acts of police brutality over the previous six years . |
| 12 | The Knights wear mantles of wolf skins over their red-coloured armour . |
| 13 | It is of course essential to our readers ' work to be able to compare changing patterns of land use over time , and often to be able to pinpoint a particular feature for various dates during , perhaps , more than a century of the topographic record . |
| 14 | Indeed Frost and Spence conclude that the main result of their detailed study of employment change between 1971 and 1977 must be ( 1984 , 146 ) ‘ the critical role that service activities and particularly the widespread public services have played in influencing the nature and patterns of employment change over the period ’ . |
| 15 | In addition to the structure I have also provisionally examined the numbers of staff likely to be needed for Council Tax purposes having regard to experiences of Poll Tax over recent years . |
| 16 | The great advantages of copper pipe over the old-fashioned lead piping are that it is light in weight , relatively cheap and easy to work with . |
| 17 | When the policy and administrative costs of checking this are considered , the advantages of in-kind transfer over cash transfer are reduced . |
| 18 | What are the advantages of Gift Aid over a Deed of Covenant ? |
| 19 | Imports of passenger cars over the three months rose only two per cent by volume , whilst imports of capital goods were down six per cent . |
| 20 | A total of 15 US military personnel were reported to have lost their lives in El Salvador over the past decade . |
| 21 | During the course of the century the limitations to government authority over the pomeshchiks were fully exposed . |
| 22 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with Overseas Development Ministers of OECD countries on aid matters over the last month . |
| 23 | Social workers , librarians , planners , architects , housing staff , tax , careers and school officers will be taking part in the vote for six days of strike action over a six week period from October 4 . |
| 24 | From our dressing-cum-locker room we can see the audience hopelessly running around with pieces of plastic sheeting over their heads , trying to stay dry . |
| 25 | to assess the degree of convergence or divergence of input provision between and within classes of education authorities over the period 1975-84 ; |
| 26 | I say ‘ more or less stable ’ because , of course , conventions of meaning change over time . |
| 27 | The credentials of team B over the last two General Elections have been so patently hopeless that the floating voter has very rightly not applied the principle . |
| 28 | His catalogue of indiscretions really began in 1987 when he crossed swords with Kenny Dalglish over Jones ' alleged threat that he intended ‘ to rip off his ear and spit in the hole . ’ |
| 29 | Those who directly represent the citizens ( legislative and oversight bodies ) , which includes members of state legislatures , county commissions , city councils , boards of trustees , school boards and those executive branch officials with oversight responsibility over other levels of government . |
| 30 | BR said the ballot showed there were real reservations among rail staff over taking industrial action and urged the union to pull back from a strike . |