Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cheetahs lost 47 to 43 at Bellevue over the weekend , but despite that defeat hundreds of supporters turned up to see world cup er world champion Hans Nielsen in training last night relieved and smiling that their hero was staying in Oxford . |
| 2 | In Spain are three famous bridges ; one is at Alcántara , built in A.D. 105 by Hadrian over the River Tagus . |
| 3 | Krase , who was sacked by the Defence Ministry in 1984 for incompetence over the affair and died in 1988 , had prepared the MAD reports which led the then Defence Minister Manfred Wörner to dismiss Kiessling . |
| 4 | Masons seem to have earned around 15s in London over the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century , and if employment was regular , that seems to represent a " middle line " for metropolitan artisans until the steeply inflationary 1790s . |
| 5 | Absolute losses also fell in Outer London , from 26,000 to only 3,000 per year over the same period . |
| 6 | GERMANY 'S railway system will need £140 billion of investment over the next eight years and should be privatised to avoid a budgetary ‘ disaster ’ for taxpayers , the head of the rail network Heinz Durr told the government . |
| 7 | The ending of mining rights would lead to a loss of some 20,000 jobs and $ 2 billion in revenue over the next seven years . |
| 8 | Geophysical studies in Scotland are also fairly constant , averaging 3 per year over the whole period , although since 1977 , the average is 5 per year . |
| 9 | All right , let us talk about yesterday if the hon. Gentleman wants — let us talk about giving more than £1 billion to industry over the next two years to ensure that there is no increase in business rates . |
| 10 | In the meantime the Government plans to spend £6.3 billion on roads over the next three years , with 40 new schemes starting next year . |
| 11 | The Department of Trade and Industry may have lost millions of pounds over the sale of the Rover Group to British Aerospace , a National Audit Office report is thought to have concluded . |
| 12 | The Department of Trade and Industry may have lost millions of pounds over the sale of the Rover Group to British Aerospace , according to a National Audit Office report . |
| 13 | ALLEGATIONS that the Department of Trade and Industry may have lost the taxpayer millions of pounds over the sale of the Rover Group to British Aerospace are to be made by the National Audit Office , Parliament 's financial watchdog . |
| 14 | DARLINGTON 's Bank Top railway station has benefited from a major facelift costing millions of pounds over the last decade . |
| 15 | This must be quite disappointing to the Danes who have spent millions of pounds over the years building up ‘ Danish ’ as a trademark on a par with Bisto or Nescafe . |
| 16 | A second survey on the German CASE market , in which 151 organisation were polled , showed that those already using CASE had invested DM 800,000 on average so far and plan to spend a further DM 120,000 on average over the next 12 months . |
| 17 | He announced that the five northern ( largely Islamic ) states — Sokoto , Bornu , Katsina , Kano and Bauchi — were to be excised from the federation , until the " rightful heir " to the Sultanate of Sokoto was installed [ see p. 36325 for controversy over the appointment in November 1988 of an ally of Babangida as successor to the late Sultan , the spiritual leader of Nigeria 's 60,000,000 Moslems ] . |
| 18 | The sixth session of the Supreme Soviet opened on Sept. 15 amid uncertainty over the course of Ukraine 's economic reform and fears that its slow pace would jeopardize IMF credits [ for Ukraine 's entry to the IMF see p. 39120 ] , and also amid opposition calls for the replacement of the government . |
| 19 | The explanatory power ( coefficient of multiple determination R2 ) of this test was found to be 0.743 on average over the 42 groups . |
| 20 | The centre has been allocated £10 million in funds over the next five years . |
| 21 | At a World Bank-sponsored meeting in Paris on Oct. 27 leading developed countries and multilateral agencies approved a further $2,200 million in aid over the three years 1990-92 . |
| 22 | On the first day of the summit González signed with President Fernando Collor de Mello of Brazil an agreement according to which Spain would made loans and investments of US$3,000 million to Brazil over the next five years , including credits to finance Spanish exports to Brazil . |
| 23 | Talks with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) remained deadlocked throughout 1989 by disagreement over the timescale and extent of reforms needed ( see also p. 36435 ) . |
| 24 | He must have embezzled thousands of pounds over the years . ’ |
| 25 | Maybe the weight itself of thousands of boys over the last couple of decades had led to some sort of subsidence . |
| 26 | Yesterday Mr Mandela began a three-day tour of the Natal Midlands , cockpit of the virtual civil war between the ANC and Inkatha which has claimed thousands of lives over the last three years . |
| 27 | THE man who founded Swaledale Outdoor Club and inspired a spirit of adventure in thousands of people over the past quarter of a century stood down as chairman at this week 's annual meeting , prior to moving to South Africa . |
| 28 | Accordingly , leaders of the Jewish community were packed off to Vienna to receive first-hand information on organising mass emigration , though how anyone could think of forcing thousands of destitutes over the border — . |
| 29 | The fast-swimming Dall 's porpoise has been particularly hard hit in the North Pacific and hundreds of thousands of animals over the last 20 years have been entangled in the giant drift-nets of the salmon , squid , and tuna fisheries . |
| 30 | There is no reliable estimate of abundance for the franciscana , although the incidental gill-net kill of tens of thousands of dolphins over the last 30 years has undoubtedly significantly reduced the total population . |