Example sentences of "was [vb pp] over the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 It was formed over the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries by the Princes zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck , and displayed at Schloss Dyck , their picturesque Rhineland ‘ water-castle ’ in the north-west of the country near Düsseldorf .
2 Whaddon saw their acceptance into the Combination as the first tentative step towards professional League football , and work was undertaken over the next five years on building and improving basic facilities at ‘ The Tip ’ .
3 A cover was installed over the second seat and a new canopy and windscreen were built .
4 Expansion of the routes was expected over the next decade .
5 Urine was collected over the first 6 hours after PEG deposition .
6 Nobody else was moved over the next couple of days so we talked endlessly about what it might mean .
7 With the return to market relations for the bulk of the economy there also arose the need for a stable currency ; this was effected over the next few years with the introduction of a new , gold based rouble , alongside the paper Soviet rouble which was finally driven out of circulation .
8 In terms of world production , OPEC output was estimated over the second half of 1988 and the first half of 1989 to have represented about 34 per cent of the total ; in addition approximately 20 per cent was produced by the Soviet Union and about 15 per cent by the United States , around 5 per cent each by Mexico and China , and about 3 per cent each by the United Kingdom and Canada .
9 The policy was cleared over the next few days and on 19 March I told the House of Commons that
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