Example sentences of "over [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | CONTRARY to popular belief , a £1m damages award is not over generous when a young person suffers severe brain damage in a road accident . |
| 2 | This book has concentrated on the political and social values of Africa today , and traced their evolution over more than a century . |
| 3 | With her formidable industry , Mrs Thatcher , over more than a decade , acquired a grasp of EC detail which left her own experts trailing and , more important , often enabled her to wrong-foot hostile EC officials . |
| 4 | With an illustrious past stretching back over more than a century and with no fewer than 30 Championships behind them the challenge for Yorkshire cricket in 1992 is to find a team that can live up to the tradition . |
| 5 | The programmatic development of the Copernican theory over more than a century has already provided us with one example . |
| 6 | To give details of the internal organisation of each of the foreign offices of Europe , and of the endless changes in detail which took place over more than a century , would be wearisome and repetitive . |
| 7 | Averell Harriman , from his unique experience of Anglo-American relations over more than a generation , observed that while Roosevelt and Churchill had made the more far-reaching decisions , they were much less close than Macmillan and Kennedy . |
| 8 | Talking to our readers , Personnel Managers , we find that they 're having to force most of Britain 's bosses to take time off over less than a quarter of British managers regularly take all their holiday entitlement . |