Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil had told me that he might spend the daytime hours between tides over here on Seal Island . |
| 2 | Some scientists predict a great increase in skin cancers in humans over the next decades , and the effects on other life forms can hardly be calculated . |
| 3 | They seem to be working their way around the main shopping areas of Britain over the last two years . |
| 4 | Fighting in the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan has intensified , meanwhile , in the run-up to the latest round of peace talks in Rome over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh . |
| 5 | Skinhead bites off ear over dog row |
| 6 | The Rural Development Commission expects 100,000 job losses in agriculture over the next decade and 50,000 associated redundancies because of CAP reform . |
| 7 | Increased concern over the atmospheric ozone layer followed from the discovery of massive springtime reductions in ozone over Antarctica . |
| 8 | Anger is growing among hill trampers in Scotland over controversial plans to build a restaurant at the foot of the Cuillin mountain range on the island of Skye . |
| 9 | The Model 10102 has 12 shielded twisted pair ports for local links and four fibre ports for links over up to 6,000 feet . |
| 10 | Protests from shop owners in Sunderland over increased parking charges have been dismissed by the city 's director of engineering Tom Ball who said that city parking was still amongst the cheapest in the country . |
| 11 | We we do that in terms of of of capital control for Translink and Computer Services , and it 's interesting to note that we do n't class as a debt free authority , so what we have is a number of scare stories from Vincent over there , which is irresponsible . |
| 12 | Thus , when the Bank of England wishes to bring about a change in base rates , which in turn affect all other sterling rates of interest over the whole yield curve , it does so by adjusting its money market intervention rates , in what must be , by definition , the discount market . |
| 13 | Mr Shaban told AIBS representatives of the difficulties he had experienced in establishing Amnesty pre-groups in Gaza over the past three years . |
| 14 | Although the Student Tutoring Scheme and the Enterprise Studentships have been the main focus of Student Enterprise activities within Napier over the last year , students have been involved in ‘ enterprising ’ activities elsewhere : |
| 15 | Anyone involved with PCs can hardly have failed to notice the dramatic price reductions in PCs over the last year . |
| 16 | The National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has set out its proposals for the development of water resources in Britain over the next 30 years . |
| 17 | Billions of pounds were wiped off share prices amid fears over the state of the global economy . |
| 18 | He wants the findings and recommendations of the Commission for Local Authority Accounts in Scotland over a special report on the Western Isles Council and BCCI set aside in an action for judicial review that went before Lord Prosser yesterday . |
| 19 | Changes in mortality have influenced the marital status composition of the older age groups in Britain over the last century . |
| 20 | More 's study ( 1980 ) of skill levels among engineering workers in England over the period 1870–1914 comes to the conclusion that it is not possible to sustain a definite ‘ deskilling ’ thesis on the evidence available . |
| 21 | However , Mongolian students staged a protest outside the Chinese embassy in Ulan Bator on June 4 , 1990 , to commemorate the crushing of the Chinese democracy movement in June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] , and there were further student protests in October over the issue of political prisoners in Inner Mongolia . |
| 22 | They are being backed by the United Kingdom Egg Producers and Retailers Association which says their plight has highlighted the problems being faced by thousands of small egg producers after publicity over salmonella infection . |
| 23 | Simon worked for discreet administrative transformations within government , avoiding until late in his career clashes with ministers over contentious issues of policy and principle . |
| 24 | The FE market was large and growing , and the recent Budget had allowed still further provision to expand it in line with government policy to increase student numbers by 25% over the next three academic years , Mr Whitnall said . |
| 25 | The product development venture , SunSolutions , a new moon circling Sun Technology Enterprises , last week debuted its first product , ShowMe , its computer conference software : based on Open Look , it says it can be deployed for on-line meetings and collaborating on compound documents in real-time over a TCP/IP net work . |
| 26 | He also got a copy of the underground railway map , and tried to trace that invisible geography over what he could actually see ; he would even try and trace the map of the flight paths of aeroplanes over the city , deciding which direction indicated which distant country . |
| 27 | Hewlett-Packard Co has won a ‘ several hundred million dollar ’ piece of action with PRC Systems Inc , prime contractor for the $2.5bn AFCAC 300 US defence contract : HP is to supply up to 5,200 Unix workstations to PRC over the next five years . |
| 28 | The mean number of Scottish geology theses per university over the period is 18.3 , or 3.3% of the total . |
| 29 | An exhibition including the Irises and six other Impressionist works has travelled round the capital cities of Austrlia over the past two and a half months , ending in Perth . |
| 30 | This week , reductions in National Insurance contributions worth £2.8bn over the next 12 months go into effect . |