Example sentences of "[coord] over the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , any child whose weight is on or over the ninety-seventh centile is seriously overweight . |
| 2 | There will be a range of thermal beard extensions which will simply clip on to or over the existing facial fur , providing the customer with that little bit of extra insulation . |
| 3 | Parts of the aircraft were missing when Harris purchased 133722 , and over the following two years , the tail assembly , engine , engine mount , cowlings , and many other portions of the aircraft had to be located , acquired , modified or made . |
| 4 | Not that Andrew Orkney will dwell too much this week on leading them into the Canal Turn and over the final six flights and up the long finish and on to the post and becoming the first optician to win and riding into history . |
| 5 | The train passed a fire station , a brewery , and over the wide murky river . |
| 6 | LAUGHTER is the best medicine and over the last two weeks we hope we 've given you a real tonic with our |
| 7 | The six months since Britain left the ERM have seen a more complete U turn in British economic policy than at any time in recent memory ; and over the last two years the deterioration in the nation 's finances has also been spectacular . |
| 8 | And we 've noticed that up to and over the last two to three weeks , not only because our sale is on er but we 're far more confident about the general economy . |
| 9 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
| 10 | In April 1991 a new compliance classification of effluent analysis was adopted by FRPB whereby ‘ borderline ’ ie 20% of consent figure was abandoned and compliance means absolute limits ie Pass or Fail and over the last four samples on the new basis Whitburn New had 0% compliance . |
| 11 | Walking is a natural exercise for most people , and over the last six years the Health Education Department of Lothian Health Board with the help of SHEG , and the Recreation & Leisure Departments of East Lothian , Edinburgh , Midlothian and West Lothian , have promoted this to encourage family and friends to Walkaboutabit . |
| 12 | It is because trying to give credit to this great poet commits a patriotic Englishman ( or Scotsman for that matter — Fraser is a Scot ) to very tormenting and unwelcome questions and reflections about the spiritual state of England or Scotland today , and over the last fifty years . |
| 13 | That was in 1980 , and over the last eleven years Tony Bowran 's studio has produced a continuous output of consistently high quality creative photography for many a major advertising campaign . |
| 14 | Today the big draught breeds , especially in the Massif Central , have found new roles in the beef industry and over the last few years they have been exported in increasing numbers to boost beef production in several parts of the world , sometimes displacing some of the famous traditional British beef breeds . |
| 15 | Better police equipment might lead to more offences being recorded , as might an increase in police numbers , and over the last few years there has been a recruitment drive by the police . |
| 16 | Kate was curiously fascinating , but mixed in with the fascination was a sort of fear ; and over the last few months she had made it quite clear that the less she had to do with him , the better she would like it . |
| 17 | Sometimes erm given me the questions and sometimes answering the questions for me , its always informing me and over the last few years I 've erm , I said that to try and understand erm , how to use this information in my own work as , as a writer , and I see , I see parallels in all forms of art , communication is of course one , erm and the need to recognise and respond the plight of others is , is another area and the area that as a writer I 'm particularly drawn too . |
| 18 | MY wife and I joined the National Trust at Cragside in Northumberland and over the last few years have cut a pretty wide swathe through Trust properties in Northumbria , North Yorkshire , Kent , the Lake District and East Anglia . |
| 19 | The easier areas of supply are beginning to become saturated and over the last few years more effort has tended to be put into SUPPLYING gas to outlying villages which , because of the application of modern pipelaying techniques , and the subsequent reduction in unit costs , have become more attractive . |
| 20 | ‘ We carefully assess our use of intensive care beds and over the last 12 months we have been a little concerned that , at times , they were full , ’ said Mr Murray . |
| 21 | The six months since Britain left the ERM have seen a more complete U-turn in British economic policy than at any time in recent memory ; and over the past two years the deterioration in the nation 's finances has also been spectacular . |
| 22 | And over the past eighteen months several agencies , among them the International Fund for Ireland and LEDU , have begun to have a presence in the most economically underdeveloped areas and to make claims about how they are targeting resources on places like West Belfast . |
| 23 | There have been significant advances in management techniques in industry , and over the past five years CAC has been actively developing ways of transferring TQM education into new working behaviour and attitudes . |
| 24 | And over the past five years , they 've brought in experts to watch the families of pipitrelles and brown long eared bats come and go . |
| 25 | ‘ The more the activities of foreign spies have increased ’ he says , ‘ the more our activities have increased , and over the past five years , we 've uncovered more agents than in the previous fifteen ’ . |
| 26 | Yet by the end of the 1960s , institutions had once again become places of last resort , and over the past thirty years the numbers of youngsters admitted to institutions has declined sharply in all three countries ( Lammertyn and Antoons , 1990 ; Ploeg , 1986 ) . |
| 27 | The UK shares market has been one of the most buoyant in the world and over the past 12 months £80 billion has flooded in from investors . |
| 28 | The Training Department has also been involved in CCG 's expansion and over the past three months trainers have been delivering induction courses for our openings at SG Warburg , British Gas Heysham , Sunderland schools and recent public sector contracts . |
| 29 | Most of this required data is found in a dictionary , and over the past few years more paper dictionaries have become available in machine-readable form . |
| 30 | It was a disgraceful affair and over the past few years there have been far too many riots in our prisons . |