Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One benefit of the Windows version over the DOS one is the ability to perform unattended scans . |
| 2 | Their whole day was spent arguing with a customs official over the contents of their truck . |
| 3 | The Branch recently received the Wings Trophy , awarded annually to the branch which has made the most consistent progress in the Wings collection over the past 10 years , from North East Area Chairman Brian Wilkie . |
| 4 | Self taught , Albert , who is a relative of George Barron , of BBC TV 's Beechgrove Garden fame , has been tending the gardens for 16 years and has been a consistent winner in the gardens competition over the years . |
| 5 | Nuclear weapons can not escape from the kinds of restraints built up carefully in the laws-of-war tradition over the centuries , but there is a risk that they may be thought to be so escaping ( especially in view of the UK and US reservations to 1977 Geneva Protocol I ) unless positive action in this direction is taken , The comparative neglect of the whole subject of laws-of-war restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons has endured for forty years , for reasons which can be understood if not approved . |
| 6 | Like Graham and Sabrina he too had been left a holdall , containing a Geiger-Muller counter and his favourite handgun , a Browning Mk2 , in a locker at the main railway station where he had spent three hours studiously checking the invoices for all the freight loaded at the goods yard over the past ten days . |