Example sentences of "of [adj] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , one person out of fifty over the year is n't bad , is it ? |
| 2 | You must if if you 're scared if you have any doubts about putting the price of that over the phone then forget doing this . |
| 3 | Halsey and his associates provide abundant evidence in support of this over the years . |
| 4 | The most spectacular case where the government lost control of the timetable was in the spring of 1969 over the Parliament ( No. 2 ) — House of Lords Reform — Bill . |
| 5 | After a high turnout poll , Mr Ashdown retained the Somerset seat with 30,950 votes , a majority of 8,833 over the Tories — an increase of 3,133 on 1987 . |
| 6 | There had been a " partial agreement " with the Vatican since 1964 [ see p. 20341 ] , which itself had helped improve relations following the conflicts of 1949-50 over the secularization of schools and enforced closure of certain religious orders [ see pp. 9721-22 ; 11259 ] . |
| 7 | However , although only one in twenty of those over the age of 55 reported that they were pleased about the plant closure , those who did so were concentrated almost entirely in the group that was within three years of pension age when the redundancies took place . |
| 8 | of those over the age of 75 live alone . |
| 9 | Her winning time of 19:55 over the 5600m course , ensured the 19-year-old Parkside runner a place in the six-woman team at the World Cross-Country Championships in Antwerp . |
| 10 | On this issue the debate between T. H. Huxley and Bishop Wilberforce at the British Association meeting of 1860 over the significance of Darwin 's recently published The Origin of Species has entered into our mythology . |
| 11 | There is a similar early map of Mendip showing the upland pasture surrounded by the villages and hamlets which had rights of common over the area . |
| 12 | IT WAS Robert Dunlop at the treble in to-day 's Coca Cola North West 200 watched by a crowd of 60,000 over the Portstewart-Coleraine-Portrush circuit . |