Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] 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 our clinic we have managed 262 pregnancies in 203 women with diabetes over the past five years , 143 of whom had non-insulin dependent diabetes . |
| 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 | In 1982 , he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Foreign Office minister Cranley Onslow , but resigned after just six days in protest over a dispute involving Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Melt the plain chocolate with three tablespoons of water over a pan of hot water . |
| 8 | Milk about three pints of milk over this . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But 18 months of argument over the treaty has left Denmark deeply divided . |
| 11 | With press media , it is possible to spread the same money over a much longer period , especially if monthly magazines are used , since monthlies accumulate their readership of as many as 10 or 11 readers per copy over quite a long period . |
| 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 fact it has been known since the late 1950s ( see for example Nature , vol. 208 , p 423 ) that Po is widely distributed in the environment , and in man , as a result of atmospheric fall-out of the decay products of natural radon-222 , with an abundance in northern temperate latitudes of about 0.06 curie per sq.km or of the order of 10 6 curies in total over the surface of the world land mass . |
| 14 | The results contained in the Report suggest total losses of between 0.8 and 2.0 inches per day over the surface of the canal . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A PWR is estimated to produce 8 tonnes of plutonium over a 35-year operational life , and an AGR 5 tonnes over 25 years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Shirley Brasher , the 1957 French Open champion , represented Queen 's Club , who won the ladies over 40 doubles with victory over Purley Sports , 4–0 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Night marches now and then to keep the men fit — not exactly a picnic doing twenty miles at night over cobbles . |
| 21 | Dr Rhodes Boyson , Minister at the DEDNI , received 2,200 letters of protest over the proposed lignite mining . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Ronald Venetiaan , the candidate of the coalition New Front for Democracy and Development ( NF ) , was elected President on Sept. 7 , ending four months of uncertainty over the future government of the country . |
| 24 | There was two feet of sand over the highest part of the island where the wind had carried it and all the heavy bridge-building machines were on their sides . |
| 25 | In other words , without continued energy efficiency improvements , Europe , North America , Japan and Australasia would need the equivalent of an extra 1,300 million tonnes of oil over the next 7 years . |
| 26 | A Russian , the first of nine charter flights due to ferry in nine hundred tonnes of rice over the next two weeks . |
| 27 | Put equal amounts of ice in the two glasses and sprinkle two teaspoonfuls of salt over the ice in one glass . |
| 28 | And here I am , Kate thinks , sitting opposite you and thinking there 's more distance between us in terms of class and sex awareness than a million years of chat over drinks at six dollars a go on the Oriental Hotel terrace could ever hope to bridge . |
| 29 | Set two pieces of meat over the nests , a pastry case to the side and a ribbon of sauce around the outside of each plate . |
| 30 | Austin Cars in North America are thirty million pounds into advertising over the next few month . |