Example sentences of "of [noun prp] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Farrant will be talking about the development of Brighton over the past three hundred years and how patterns of trade and commerce have tended to repeat themselves . |
| 2 | In several incidents in the eastern part of Germany over the past two months the Russians have continued to act like occupiers — and drawn only mild reproof from the German government . |
| 3 | I know how long he has been concerned about the aggravated taking of vehicles and the mayhem caused by young men in parts of Nottinghamshire over the past couple of years . |
| 4 | I have had the immense privilege of serving the people of Worcester over the past 30 years . |
| 5 | Launching a report on the changing face of England over the past 50 years , Burton called on the government to target the 150,000 hectares of derelict land in cities before it allows more building in the countryside . |
| 6 | In particular they have been seen as a system of colonization , and as institutions designed to ensure the military dominance of Israel over the indigenous Palestinian population . |
| 7 | Even some in new houses now want to move out because of the construction works , traffic congestion , and a general decline in the image and attractiveness of Docklands over the past three years . |
| 8 | Pour a sloppy mix of plaster of Paris over the damaged area to form a new key |
| 9 | On June 15 the UN in Geneva launched a fresh consolidated inter-agency appeal to the international community for US$541,000,000 to fund emergency assistance for populations in the Horn of Africa over the next six months . |
| 10 | It shocked my manager a lot too and he 's going to be concentrating on a big relaunch of Suzanne over the next while so I think it 's a good opportunity for me to take my career more into my own hands . ’ |
| 11 | At the final turn into the tailwind , eight miles from the finish , Curry still led but only by 10 seconds , and from here on in Boone pulled ahead taking 1.29 out of Curry over the final miles . |
| 12 | As a rounded account of the rise of Saddam it has one serious failing in that it pays far too little attention to the economic and social development of Iraq over the past 20 years . |
| 13 | We are the descendants of all those generations that emigrated out of Europe over the last three centuries to populate the emptier quarters of the earth . |
| 14 | They seem to be working their way around the main shopping areas of Britain over the last two years . |
| 15 | One of the dominant social characteristics of Britain over the past fifty years has been the degree of upward social mobility of those whose parents held traditional working-class jobs . |
| 16 | At Messina they succeeded in winning the support of Italy for a move towards broad economic integration , triumphing over both a more limited conception advocated by West Germany that fell somewhere between supranationalism and the old sectoral route , and the doubts of France over the whole concept of a common market . |
| 17 | A survey late last year by Mori Building , a big development company , calculated that 85m square feet ( 7.9m square metres ) of office space is scheduled to be built — in large blocks alone — in the 23 wards of Tokyo over the next five years , 87% more than was completed in the past five . |
| 18 | CCG HAS started a new contract to provide school meals for the London Borough of Wandesworth over the next four years . |
| 19 | We are , therefore , solely concerned with nine papal letters contaminated to a greater or lesser extent , predominantly with a view to providing explicit papal authority for the primacy of Canterbury over the whole area of Britain . |
| 20 | The consequence of Oswiu 's decision at Whitby , therefore , was the destruction of the authority of Iona in Anglo-Saxon territory and the restoration of the authority of the archbishop of Canterbury over the northern Angles . |
| 21 | He will be discussing the future of Leeds over the next 5 years or so . |