Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One consequence of this has been a distrust of geometric intuition and the downgrading of geometry by educationalists over the past 50 years or so . |
| 2 | He showed no desire to get up and greet me but I was merciless and dragged him inch by inch over the cobbles till he was lying at my feet . |
| 3 | There were layers of Gaily 's patience , built up grain by grain over the years like geological strata . |
| 4 | In the preceding arguments I have deliberately used the term ‘ enterprise democracy ’ to refer to democratic control by workers over the enterprises which employ them , within the context of the socialist project . |
| 5 | SunSoft has enhanced Solaris 2.0 to 2.2 ( though it 's not officially calling it that ) boosting symmetric multiprocessing performance by 60% over the previous version as measured on an eight-way system . |
| 6 | The Bristol-based Frenchay Healthcare Trust , said the 89 job losses were needed to help cut spending by £2.3m over the next year . |
| 7 | Coutts had considered Virgin 's request to exceed their overdraft by £200,000 over the next seven days . |
| 8 | In June there were a number of developments in Soviet-United States relations designed to repair the political damage caused earlier in the year by differences over the Gulf war , the Soviet crackdown in the Baltic republics , and difficulties in arms control negotiations . |
| 9 | The producer must provide a description , checking that it is accurate ( no identifiable solvent residues ) , prepare a transfer note , ensure that the skip is secure , check that the waste transfer site is appropriately licensed to accept all the wastes in the skip , transfer the waste to the site suitably contained ( in this case by sheeting over the skip ) — and finally retain the transfer document for two years . |
| 10 | I am also sure that schools will take these concepts , adapt them to their needs and circumstances and successfully absorb them , as they have with the many other innovations taken on board by education over the past few years . |
| 11 | The number of properties repossessed rose by 74% over the 1990 figure to 75,540 in 1991 . |
| 12 | 2 In spite of the enormous flow of creative production by women over the last 20 years or so , much of it is still little known outside ‘ feminist art ’ circles . |
| 13 | Now the company has 270 staff ( it started out with just 30 three years ago ) , has increased production by 20% over the past year and has a turnover of £l2m ( it expects that to rise to £l4m next year ) . |