Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The librarian should normally plan a long-term programme of stock revisions over a period of , say , one to three years , selecting a number of specified priority subjects to be revised during that period . |
| 2 | Shamir made his call in the light of Cabinet disagreements over a Police Ministry proposal to prevent all unmarried Palestinian men under the age of 30 from entering Israel . |
| 3 | The article was a review of process developments over the years and the way changing technology has impacted on fuel design . |
| 4 | Gigolo Aunts ' casual tenacity has been rewarded with a deal with Fire Records over here , which gives everyone the opportunity to catch ‘ Cope ’ and its maudlin lyrical concerns . |
| 5 | Since the 1970s , scientists had observed a significant depletion in ozone levels over the Antarctic . |
| 6 | The decision came after confusion in government circles over the move and a threat from Andrei Plesu , Minister of Culture , to resign . |
| 7 | Furthermore , energy was over 30 per cent cheaper in the South than in the northeast in 1980 , according to Agnew ( 1987b , p. 174 ) , who draws on Bensel 's ( 1984 ) work , which combines the energy and unionization advantages of the South , to illustrate the growing gap in growth rates over the post-war decades between , on the one hand , the energy-rich/right-to-work States and , on the other , the energy-disadvantaged ( high cost , mostly imported ) and heavily-unionized . |
| 8 | In comparison the er the the smallest projection put forward by Mr Thomas , would actually result in a twenty one percent decrease in building rates over that approved in the adopted adopted plan , and a thirty two percent increase over the actual rate experienced since nineteen eighty one . |
| 9 | In a relaxed first address to Labour 's Scottish conference at Inverness which brought him a warm reception , he closed the embarrassing divide in party ranks over water privatisation . |
| 10 | The first , ‘ conservative ’ option proposes a gradual switch to market principles over an unspecified number of years . |
| 11 | What comes through the screen is the sheer sense of enjoyment of the game and that is why more than 10 million people have watched the programme on Tuesday nights over the past 26 weeks . |
| 12 | And you have incorporated visits to the controversial THORP complex at Sellafield and had the USDAW chief executive talk to BAIE members over lunch . ’ |
| 13 | The Johnston and McClelland model therefore predicts that the advantage of word targets over letter targets will be the same with a backward mask which is a word , as with as backward mask consisting of a random sequence of letters . |
| 14 | Pensions Under Irish GAAP , the expected cost of providing pensions to employees is charged to the profit and loss account as incurred over the period of employment of pensionable employees , with any surplus or deficit of plan obligations over plan assets amortized to the income statement over the expected future service lives of the active employees , at a fixed proportion of pensionable pay . |
| 15 | One cause of friction was the discontent of BIA officers over the failure to implement promises of independence made publicly by General Iida of the Japanese army when the BIA first entered Tavoy in the south . |
| 16 | An issue for research libraries over the next few years is to seize the opportunity offered by technology for enrichment of OPACs as electronic access tools . |
| 17 | " They say we 've sold our souls to France in return for rice fields over which the crane might fly all morning without encountering barriers . |
| 18 | The second aspect is the relative stability in the proportion of transport workers over the two decades , despite , as we know from Figure 3.1 , the job losses that have occurred in the transport service industries since the 1960s . |
| 19 | However , the most direct influence of county councils over housing and the social composition of villages occurs in their policies for restricting the growth of some settlements in favour of ‘ key villages ’ . |
| 20 | We have also been impressed by the independent influence of family relationships over the generations , an approach which has been brought home to us through discussion with family therapists . |
| 21 | If there were , then the last decade and a half of selectionist-neutralist controversies over all these different non-definitional issues could have been settled in advance without recourse to empirical data , in an armchair with a scientist 's glossary and a logician 's truth table . |
| 22 | However , the talks were reported to have centred on the issue of water rights over the Jordan and Yarmouk rivers . |
| 23 | ALTON Community Centre will be offering a range of holiday activities over Easter . |
| 24 | In a particular market , given its underlying cost and demand parameters , it will usually be possible to define a range of discount rates over which agreement on some collusive set of outputs or prices can be sustained by some threatened punishment strategy . |
| 25 | The creation or improvement of a range of wildlife habitats over a 20-year period . |
| 26 | According to UK database analyst Martin Butler , disagreement amongst SAG members over common development goals and the establishment of labyrinth committee structure has laden the organisation with bureaucracy . |
| 27 | Soon after making The Public Enemy Cagney was to publicize his battle with Warner Bros over the roles he was being made to play and it became very evident that he was a shrewd and realistic businessman who perfectly understood his commercial and artistic value to the studios . |
| 28 | Cawson defines corporatism as a process ‘ in which organizations representing monopolistic functional interests engage in political exchange with state agencies over public policy outputs which involves those organizations in a role that combines interest representation and policy implementation through delegated self-enforcement ’ ( 1985a , p. 8 ) . |
| 29 | The October 1990 rate cut was anticipated for some time in advance by the gilt market which bought gilts and drove up gilt prices ( see Fig. 17.3 ) , as was the continued fall in base rates over the next two years . |
| 30 | This is only partly explained by a fall in pupil numbers over the same period — of 17% . |