Example sentences of "over so [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Always have to be alive to the possibility it 's more than one person , Cameron , especially with a group of crimes spread out over so much territory , and fairly complicated ones at that . ’ |
| 2 | Sally-Anne tossed her head at this , and repeated that it was all nothing — ‘ And really you should not make such a fuss over so little ’ — but all the same she was happy to let Matey help her up to bed ; she felt strangely weak , and the thought of Sunday lunch and washing up , and all the work to be done before the day was over , made her feel worse than ever . |
| 3 | Cricket had the fourth largest aggregate audience on television in 1988 , according to the figures of AGB Sports Watch/ BARB , but over so many hours that its audience at any one time is insignificant . |
| 4 | No wonder this part of Ireland felt a closer allegiance to Scotland than to the rest of Ireland over so many centuries . |
| 5 | The North might well observe too that it would rather be free of national economic policies that have only succeeded , over so many post-war years and through several alternating governments , in bringing the country to a level of GNP per head visibly falling behind all our respectable rivals — and some newcomers till recently beneath notice . |
| 6 | But she and Matthew had had so many cold steely little tussles these last few weeks over so many small things — like the panelling in the hall and cutting some trees down at the side of the house which she said darkened the drawing-room and which he had gone berserk about — that Sara did not feel she could be obstructive again . |
| 7 | But , you know , when you when you borrow money , you get er , an interest rate , do n't you , over so many , yo you 've got to figure out ho how many years you 're gon na pay it back . |