Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] over the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century . |
| 2 | Bankings which have been torn apart over the last two centuries and then rebuilt and rebuilt again may have to be moved back to take the sting out of the pile-driving force of the river in spate . |
| 3 | The stolen cars have been occurring now over the last year . |
| 4 | What had been happening financially over the last five or six years is unclear but in 1932 the situation was regarded as ‘ serious ’ and it was to continue so ( as with other Clubs in the Depression ) until the late 1930's . |
| 5 | Castle continues to value video copyrights on a historical cost basis because its catalogue has only been built up over the last two or three years and there is less earnings experience on which to base a valuation . |
| 6 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 7 | Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin . |
| 8 | There I mean there was nothing like the bombing that 's been going on , well , at least that 's what we 're told , the bombing that 's been going on over the last twenty four , forty eight hours of Baghdad for instance . |
| 9 | This aspect of the work has been phased out over the last few years as the UK content in most projects has risen to more than 70 per cent , leaving OSO to concentrate on its other roles in encouraging research and development into new offshore technology and using UK expertise to gain export orders on the back of North Sea achievements . |
| 10 | A BS spokesman said he could see no possible solution to the problem at this stage but the issue would be examined closely over the next six months . |
| 11 | A Declaratory Order covering 270 acres was proposed with a view to designating extensively war-damaged land , subject to compulsory purchase ; this was required for essential improvements to be carried out over the next 15 years . |
| 12 | Follow-up visits will be carried out over the next three weeks , to obtain additional information on equipment , software , and your immediate working environment . |
| 13 | The tests are due to be carried out over the next fortnight but parents will face a six-week wait for the results . |
| 14 | Tory sources insist that Mr Major is leaving the decision up to backbenchers , who will be sounded out over the next few days . |
| 15 | The extra 300 staff will be phased in over the next few years . |
| 16 | They 'll be coming out over the next year or so . |
| 17 | XPG4 will be updated constantly over the next five years before the introduction of XPG5 , which is expected , by that time , to specify fully functional , object-oriented technology from the kernel level upwards . |
| 18 | The first will be shipped out over the next few weeks to start competing with the conventional hydrofoils , Boeing Jetfoil and high-speed catamarans that vie for business on the 78 km route to Macau . |
| 19 | A single agency to control all forms of pollution in Scotland is to be set up over the next three years . |
| 20 | The yard will be run down over the next three weeks with the loss of 600 jobs . |
| 21 | And that 's an arrangement which will be carrying on over the next few years . |
| 22 | Next year the event will be held in the Grand Hall of Olympia 1 , which will provide 50% more floor space to be taken up over the next five years . |
| 23 | Details for opening the ‘ corridors ’ are to be thrashed out over the next four days . |
| 24 | These are aspects we will be exploring precisely over the next few weeks and months . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We do n't know in detail what these would involve , but they are aspects we will be exploring precisely over the next few weeks and months . ’ |
| 26 | That will be the next stage we shall be working on over the next half-year or so , and what we do want to do is to seek the help of all the local authorities and teachers in this work , because one should perhaps put things into context , we 're a committee of twenty-two people , we have a staff , which when they 're all fully employed they 'll be about fifty , we have a budget of two million , but we have got to communicate with something like four hundred to five hundred thousand teachers , something like erm five thousand secondary schools and twenty-six thousand primary schools . |
| 27 | Roughly six tonnes of plutonium and 30 tonnes of HEU are due to be released annually over the next 15 years as Soviet warheads are scrapped . |
| 28 | The pattern of angina and reinfarction is mimicked by the pattern of intervention , and our experience is that half of all interventions take place in the first 3 months and the rest are spread out over the next 2 years . |
| 29 | Hence the keen interest in this result and the fierceness of the battle which has been fought here over the last few weeks . |
| 30 | In fact most outstanding problems were ironed out over the last couple of months , Goldstein says ; bug fixing remains . |