Example sentences of "that over " in BNC.
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| 1 | This flat had to be sold by the council , and the ADC states that by allowing tenants to purchase such dwellings , the Government will ensure that over time younger households will buy up accommodation formerly occupied by older people ; |
| 2 | AMP said that over the past 10 years , measured in terms of new annual premiums , Pearl 's market position has fallen sharply and its share has declined consistently . |
| 3 | Terence Chute , the chairman , explained that over the past year the company has invested over £11m in revenue producing equipment , with existing operations being upgraded and new subsidiaries launched . |
| 4 | Taking into account that over the past year changes in Europe have proceeded vastly faster than almost everyone predicted , it is imperative that we start thinking now about what a new ‘ European security order ’ , without vast Soviet and American armies on German soil , might look like . |
| 5 | These imports have to be paid for and what is interesting — and why manufacturing is vital to us — is that over the past hundred years , if not longer , seventy per cent of these imports have been paid for by the export of British manufactured goods . |
| 6 | Each month we take note of your letters and try to redress the balance , hoping that over the year we get it just about right . |
| 7 | The report points out that over the past two years there have been international hotel mergers and acquisitions worth $8.8b ( £5.5b ) . |
| 8 | I guess that over the last six years television has given him only a quarter of her exposure . |
| 9 | The report noted that over the past few years the government departments had introduced competitive fee bidding for the appointment of consulting engineers leading to lower fee rates . |
| 10 | THERE 'S little doubt that over the past decade the British public has been moving towards the Tory party 's ideal of a nation of home owners . |
| 11 | It all makes many believe that over the coming months share prices will drop below the levels at which they opened 1991 . |
| 12 | It already has a labour force there of 15,000 and plans to double that over the next year or two , investing around DM1 billion . |
| 13 | The Kroll investigation also found that over the past ten years some $10 billion had either been salted away in banks or used to buy shares of western companies . |
| 14 | No one could foresee that over the course of the next few years the steel industry would be successfully reorganized and taken into the private sector . |
| 15 | It is true that over the years a few railway signalmen have been convicted of manslaughter for wrongful acts and omissions leading to fatal train crashes , but there is not the natural resort to the criminal law which is now a feature of road-traffic cases . |
| 16 | Mine comes from peaty moorland and the pH is too low with the result that over the years copper pipework corrodes in places , especially at low points . |
| 17 | When the Left want to take control of a particular constituency , they look at its controlling group and note that over a six-month period the maximum number of people attending the decision-making meetings is never more than ( say ) twenty-seven . |
| 18 | She came to a familiar boulder ; it had fallen where the river met the hollow that over the years had become the pond . |
| 19 | The RYA says that over the next 10 years demand for new berths will reach 85,000 nationally on top of the present 190,000 . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , he forsees that over the next two years there may be problems as fleets dispose of the diesels acquired during the last oil-burner boom . |
| 21 | Lord Lane paid tribute to his ‘ team ’ of judges and revealed that over the past four years he had reviewed almost 1,500 life sentences — a task he had been unable to delegate and which he willingly relinquished to his successor , Lord Justice Taylor . |
| 22 | Set against this , however , is that over the same period the number of compounds screened for every new product generated has increased from 2 × 10 3 to 2 × 10 4 , which inevitably increases development costs . |
| 23 | Few things are more poignant than a holiday romance , and we 're very happy to say that over the years we 've brought more than a few couples together who are now living happily every after . |
| 24 | It should come as no surprise then , if we tell you that over the last three years Florida has become one of our great Club 18–30 success stories , with thousands of club fans making the trip across the ‘ big pond ’ for their first stateside holiday . |
| 25 | Despite the fact that over the years America has been Israel 's guardian , both politically and militarily , and continues to give Israel $3 billion-worth of aid annually , that does not stop it from falling victim to Mossad 's activities . |
| 26 | Here Gehlen collected up the thousands of spools of microfilm that over the years he had painstakingly amassed as part of his record of Russian intelligence . |
| 27 | I have found that over the years we have never had a problem with the Michelin tyres and they offer excellent value for money . |
| 28 | Using the same analysis as Government statisticians , the figures show that over the period 1979 to 1988 , real disposable incomes rose by over 30 per cent . |
| 29 | From the seventeenth until the early nineteenth century , parish records suggest that over one-half of widows would normally have been provided with regular pensions on the rates ; and still more remarkable , when compared with working-class incomes , these pensions were twice as good as those offered by state pensions today ( see Fig. 1 ) . |
| 30 | In September 1968 the executive sanitary officer in his annual report for 1967 said that over one thousand houses were occupied by more than one family and in several cases seven or eight families occupied what was originally a single dwelling . |