Example sentences of "over [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 so they 've all we 've all been vetted over over a number of years .
2 And she 'd I think she had about eight , over over a period of years you know .
3 Yet the report of the Enquiry ( presided over by a QC ) set up by the Inner London Education Authority to resolve the dispute had the effect of fuelling a campaign for educational retrenchment .
4 Coal and Power called for an integrated and rationalized scheme for power , a follow up to the Liberal Manifesto of 1923 which suggested that coal and power supplies should be placed under the control of a public board presided over by a minister .
5 Shortly after my fourth birthday we moved to a village in Somerset with my father 's employer , a retired lawyer , a bachelor , whose household was presided over by a sister-in-law whose husband had died at about the time of my birth .
6 The Crown Court is presided over by a judge or a recorder and it hears the more serious criminal cases .
7 But Mr Andriessen conceded that the 18-country EES would be presided over by a council of ministers ‘ shaping decisions by consensus ’ .
8 Its name also implies that the mineral springs , which have continued in use until now , were once presided over by a patron deity called Arnemetia , goddess of the sacred grove .
9 The inquest was local , held in the parish hall and presided over by a doctor from the big resort town further down the lake .
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