Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , the talks were reported to have centred on the issue of water rights over the Jordan and Yarmouk rivers . |
| 12 | ALTON Community Centre will be offering a range of holiday activities over Easter . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The creation or improvement of a range of wildlife habitats over a 20-year period . |
| 15 | Based on this information , meteorological and atmospheric dispersion models are employed to predict the spatial distribution of pollution concentrations over the area . |
| 16 | This type of generalization requires the comparison of maps showing the two spatial patterns of elevation of the terrain above sea-level and the distribution of pine trees over that same terrain . |
| 17 | It is this combination of factors that has led to a stream of government interventions over pay determination , productivity and working practices , investment and closure decisions , and industrial conflict . |
| 18 | The rate of basic pension depends on your record of NI contributions over your working life . |
| 19 | Actor , author and director of multi-media events over the last ten years , Ricardo Mosner has concentrated mainly on painting , sculpture and graphic art . |
| 20 | Yellowfin became elusive after the El Nino current change affected the availability of food supplies over the last two decades . |
| 21 | I should tell you that er , the budget really represents er , an increase in the availability of police resources over the previous years . |
| 22 | And the tally of crown successes over its opponents far outnumbers its few failures ; Douglases , Crichtons , Livingstones , Erskines , Gordons , Hamiltons and many other members of aristocratic families who lost out to the crown over a huge range of disputes , from the heights of violent conflict to the crown 's ability to beat off rival claimants to lands , would have been astonished by the belief of later historians that they were more powerful than the monarchy . |
| 23 | LIVERPOOL has had more than its share of pop stars over the years . |
| 24 | Monitoring is necessary in order to limit the tendency of team members to ‘ shirk ’ , that is , to increase leisure and reduce effort ‘ on the job ’ ( they explain the existence of the firm by reference to the superiority of internal monitoring through observation of the behaviour of team members over monitoring of teams by market competition ) . |
| 25 | Data about utilization of hospital services over time are sparse . |
| 26 | An excess of GP referrals over other referrals of women informally admitted was matched by an excess of female over male GP referrals who were informally admitted . |
| 27 | In the UK at present , the public sector is in substantial budget surplus , ( ie the excess of tax receipts over government spending ) . |
| 28 | In a report to the schools subcommittee , director of education Keith Mitchell said more than £1m was available for the development of nursery schools over the next two years . |
| 29 | In a report to the schools subcommittee , director of education Keith Mitchell says more than £1m is available for the development of nursery units over the next two years . |
| 30 | The Human Development Report 1992 released by the UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) on April 23 showed that the doubling of income disparities over the last 30 years had enabled " the richest 20 per cent of the world 's people [ to become ] … at least 150 times more than the poorest 20 per cent " . |