Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smaller , darker mountain type with black points and mucosae is very like the Piedmont of northwest Italy and is ideal for extensive systems , but it has been declining in numbers over the last 50 years and by 1980 was down to about 35,000 . |
| 2 | The martins were now coming and going in numbers over the water . |
| 3 | With our Association growing in numbers over the years , to what seems to be a plateau of about 1200 members , the collective voice has been heard , especially since some of those members are Community , District and Borough Councils ; as well as various clubs and businesses . |
| 4 | Eighty years does n't seem a very long time when you consider the art of acting has been prospering in Europe over the last four hundred or so years , quite apart from the great traditions of ancient Greek drama . |
| 5 | The community reaction to mining in Ireland over the last two decades is one that can be presented in an almost linear , chronological fashion . |
| 6 | He said Dr Clarke would be canvassing in Darlington over the next three weeks and the party intended to hold public meetings . |
| 7 | We had shrimps for tea , watercress , celery stacked in a glass jug , fishpaste sandwiches , flan made from the blackberries hanging in thickets over the back garden fence from the wild common beyond . |
| 8 | I 'm therefore doubly grateful to you for giving me the chance to meet you today , and I hope that some of the contacts I might make today will stand me in good stead in the job that I 'm doing in Oxford over the next year or so . |
| 9 | His early and unexpected death was a cruel setback which left the College floundering in indecision over the choice of a suitable successor . |
| 10 | While Frank Reed 's relations waited expectantly in both Damascus and the United States , there were however , ominous signs of the power struggle continuing in Tehran over the hostage issue . |
| 11 | and there 's a white one coming in look over the end of the jetty there |
| 12 | For , oh , how awful is the seizure of the invisible , last enemy , sitting in triumph over the body , which is all over which he can have power . ’ |
| 13 | The clouds of mosquitoes are beginning to arrive and are hovering in strength over the slit trenches . |
| 14 | But abuse was another matter and he was extremely nervous about the treatment he was then receiving in America over the award of the Bollingen Prize to Ezra Pound . |
| 15 | Archaeologists working in Israel over the summer at Caesarea Philippi , the Roman town founded in 3BC , have uncovered what seems to be the earliest known Christian church . |