Example sentences of "[num] [noun] of [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quoted in an interview in Pravda , Konovalov said that his ministry was set to triple output by 2000 , adding an extra 19,600 megawatts of capacity over the next ten years . |
| 2 | In the USA , in national opinion polls conducted since Chernobyl , there has been a consistent two-to-one margin of opposition over support for new construction of nuclear power stations . |
| 3 | The Blinky Bill case ( International News , 6th November 1992 ) has been settled after six months of wrangling over the interpretation of Australia 's trademark and copyright legislation . |
| 4 | The agreement , which was announced by the Department of Health , brings to an end six years of controversy over the future of the Adelaide . |
| 5 | Gloucester thereupon went off to capture Berwick-upon-Tweed and , after thirteen changes of ownership over the centuries , made it once and for all English . |
| 6 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 7 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 8 | Melt the plain chocolate with three tablespoons of water over a pan of hot water . |
| 9 | Milk about three pints of milk over this . |
| 10 | It is a measure of the seriousness with which the European issue divides the Conservative Party that the Prime Minister came within three votes of defeat over Maastricht — despite having Lib Dem support — in the paving vote last November . |
| 11 | But 18 months of argument over the treaty has left Denmark deeply divided . |
| 12 | A typical combination of elements might be 20 minutes of full screen , full motion video , 5000 high resolution stills , 6 hours of audio over the stills and the equivalent of about 15,000 pages of text . |
| 13 | In the same pan , dissolve the sugar in one tablespoon of water over a low heat , then cook until just beginning to turn golden . |
| 14 | Prime Minister Felipe González , the leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) , on April 5 won a vote of confidence in the Congress of Deputies , concluding five months of uncertainty over the exact distribution of seats in the 350-seat Congress resulting from the October general election , after which recounts and repeat elections had been necessary in a number of constituencies . |
| 15 | A PWR is estimated to produce 8 tonnes of plutonium over a 35-year operational life , and an AGR 5 tonnes over 25 years . |
| 16 | One area of dispute over the EFA 's development was apparently overcome , however , when the West German and UK Defence Ministers met on Jan. 22 , 1990 , and reportedly agreed to back the use of the proposed ECR-90 radar system to be developed by the British company Ferranti International , rather than the alternative West German-built MD-2000 system using technology under licence from the US company Hughes . |
| 17 | Moreover , the law is only one method of control over what is placed in the public arena . |
| 18 | well it was real value buy buying nine bags of nuts over Christmas was n't it ? |
| 19 | I 'm not recommending one form of love over another . |
| 20 | What variables determine a preference for one form of reference over another ? |
| 21 | Putting just one shade of green over several ‘ bitty ’ shades of green on your tree can improve your painting . |
| 22 | Clinton 's chief henchman , Venner , was an amiable enough fellow but his conversation revolved around bear and cock fighting and the virtues of one breed of horse over another . |
| 23 | The dazzle effect of grids can be subdued by establishing a hierarchy of one set of parallels over another . |
| 24 | Hierarchy in a grid is most readily achieved by superimposing one set of parallels over the other . |
| 25 | In this way the choice between a particular and a universal interpretation of the concept of social representation can involve more than a preference for one son of definition over another . |
| 26 | There are still a few , knowing they have no chance of winning , who enter just for ‘ fun ’ and the feeling of achievement which carrying fifty kilos of coal over an uphill 1,000 metre course can bring . |
| 27 | SIR , — Of a total of 3715,762 infants delivered in Japan after 23 weeks of gestation over the three years 1989 to 1991 , 22,531 were stillborn . |
| 28 | A survey late last year by Mori Building , a big development company , calculated that 85m square feet ( 7.9m square metres ) of office space is scheduled to be built — in large blocks alone — in the 23 wards of Tokyo over the next five years , 87% more than was completed in the past five . |
| 29 | Dr Rhodes Boyson , Minister at the DEDNI , received 2,200 letters of protest over the proposed lignite mining . |
| 30 | Amnesty said that the torture of those detained by the army and police was a daily routine , and that it had received reports of more than 200 cases of torture over the past two years , but believed the true figure to be much higher . |