Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economists estimated that the rate of inflation had increased to 20 per cent during fiscal 1989 , an increase of 1.5 percentage points over the previous year . |
| 2 | The Deserted Medieval Village Research Group ( now the Medieval Villages Research Group ) , which was formed in 1952 as a multi-disciplinary research body , drawing in geographers , historians , and archaeologists as well as natural scientists , has revolutionised our concepts of rural settlement changes over the last 2000 years . |
| 3 | Culminations of hanging wall complexes over footwall ramps appear to be promising sites for hydrocarbon accumulation , and are likely to have seismic , gravity , and magnetic expression . |
| 4 | Specimen jar of sea water in hand , she cheerfully highlighted the embarrassing prospect of European Court prosecutions over the pollution of nearby pleasure beaches . |
| 5 | Declining car sales in the UK last year did little to dent the popularity of German car manufacturers over here . |
| 6 | The Legend of St. Elisabeth ( 1857–62 ) features three pieces from the Oratorio on piano solo : the ‘ Orchestral Introduction ’ sets the atmosphere with a simple devotional melody ; ‘ Crusaders ’ March ’ is a series of contrasting fanfare motives over a vigorously varied key structure , and ‘ Interludium ’ uses first , fifth and eighth note repeated sequences with a tail-end flourish throughout . |
| 7 | Central Enterprise will test the capabilities of tactical air operations over western europe and the North Sea … |
| 8 | It may mean also that strikes are openly directed against state policy as much as against management 's negotiating position , as with the French public sector strike in the mid-1960s against government fixing of the total wage bill ( Dubois 1975 : 114–15 ) , or the wave of public sector conflicts over the Spanish government 's wage control and restructuring policies in early 1987 . |
| 9 | As a 19 year old Flight Engineer , he was already a veteran of 12 bomber sorties over Germany . |
| 10 | As a 19 year old Flight Engineer , he was already a veteran of 12 bomber sorties over Germany . |
| 11 | Payment of social security contributions over a given period ‘ entitles ’ the payer to a benefit , ( though only until the law is changed ! ) . |
| 12 | Multiply billions of tiny energy surpluses over billions of years of time and you find that you have a vast energy surplus . |
| 13 | Taylor ( 1964 ) in particular noted that the distribution of GSRs over distance travelled corresponded very closely to the distribution of actual accident figures over the same distance . |
| 14 | THE All England Club has been cleared of unfair trading practices over the sale of Wimbledon tickets . |
| 15 | This run of Tory election victories over the 1950s prompted the speculation at the time that the Tories had managed to establish themselves as the ‘ natural party of government ’ . |
| 16 | To serve , squeeze some of mild-scented garlic insides over each potato , add salt if wished , and pop into your mouth while hot . |
| 17 | There 's a much , much larger range of great designer clothes over here because it 's just a bigger population . |
| 18 | The Macintosh Application Services software previewed at the IBM PowerOpen launch last week ( CI No 2,123 ) is an indication of the growing popularity of binary-to-binary conversion techniques over straightforward emulation , which is still associated with poor performance . |
| 19 | Public administration and management in central government has stood up to these strains , but the weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the last 25 years . |
| 20 | The weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the past 25 years . " |
| 21 | Bueche expressed this as where is the glass temperature of a polymer with a very large molar mass , θ is the free volume contribution of one chain end and is 2θ for a linear polymer , ρ is the polymer density , N A is Avogradro 's constant , and α f is the free volume expansivity defined as The linear expression in equation ( 12.33 ) has been widely used and describes the behaviour of many polymer systems over a reasonable range of molar mass ( > 5000 ) . |
| 22 | Her hands and arms are streaked with maroon paint , a clot of maroon hair flops over one eye . |
| 23 | Given the behaviour of fixed-interest security prices over the period , this may reflect a desire to hold such stock mainly for its capital gain potential . |
| 24 | Two elasticated loops , made of shirring elastic or similar — but certainly not tight across the inner eyelets — are used to retain the zig-zag of folded shroud lines over the shoulder risers . |
| 25 | In the event , however , the crisis served mainly to demonstrate the dominance of older pacifist traditions over revolutionary ideas . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , quantitative data do provide some guide to changes in the subject balance of first degree courses over recent years . |
| 27 | As reported in last year 's Annual Report , the most serious factor in relation to purchasing for 1989–90 , owing to Government 's failure to meet the cost of nationally-negotiated pay awards over recent years , was the need to divert purchasing funds to pay essential salary costs during the year , thereby causing substantial reductions in the purchases of printed books of all periods , as well as manuscripts , maps and music . |
| 28 | Arrest of former deputy ministers over coup plot |
| 29 | Flexible so that it can take account of changing family circumstances over time . |
| 30 | This would explain the pre-eminence of various investment banks over the years and the inability of many new entrants to gain profitability . |