Example sentences of "[noun sg] over [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Toney captured the IBF super-middleweight title from Iran Barkley when the doctor halted their bout in Las Vegas after the ninth round of their scheduled 12-rounder , while Markus Bott , of Germany , won the WBO cruiserweight title when he outpointed American holder Tyrone Booze over 12 rounds in Hamburg . |
| 2 | I continued the search over six weeks in Bristol , Oxford , Swindon , London , Rochester , Brighton , Cambridge , Derby , Edinburgh and Exeter , where this book was written . |
| 3 | Through the search over three continents , homelessness and pain-memory , she is able to find a new tongue as the last poem , in a sort of quiet , cautious exultation , shows . |
| 4 | I sent away for a video instruction tape over two months ago ; the cheque was cashed well over a month ago but as yet I have not received the tape . |
| 5 | The same procedure was repeated for percentiles of the crypt column , and a running mean over five percentiles was calculated to smooth the distribution . |
| 6 | For glutamine the rate of metabolism in the first hour was 5.1 ( 1.1 ) nmol/µg protein , 4.6 ( 2.2 ) nmol/h/ µg protein over two hours , and 4.3 ( 1.0 ) over three hours ( p<0.0001 for linearity test ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Now it is an even contest over 80 minutes . |
| 8 | Bill 's orders had been for Captive Audience to lead Shine On at racing speed over six furlongs , then for them both to stride out for home over the last two furlongs . |
| 9 | Victoria Woodhull Claffin — later 19th Century free-thinking radical feminist who was the first woman to run for the office of United States President over 30 years before women 's suffrage . |
| 10 | Most of the lava followed the courses of river valleys , principally the Skaftar and the Hverfisfljot , and formed glowing rivers of rock over fifty-six kilometres long . |
| 11 | As early as 1924 Herbert Morrison ( who else ? ) pointed to the four-fold increase in the Labour vote over six years , and offered an explanation of the previous poor record : |
| 12 | UNEP also organises fair loans from rich donor countries to poor developing nations , and is looking to spend $8 billion in aid over five years . |
| 13 | In exchange , Washington would provide Palau with $460 million in aid over 15 years . |
| 14 | Referring to Adams 's advice , Llewellyn said : ‘ I listened closely and I also learned a lot schooling the horse over nine fences and while watching videos of Andrew riding him . |
| 15 | We divided the chicks into four groups and spread the experiment over two days . |
| 16 | A group of electronics specialists chaired by John Alvey , the director of technology at British Telecom , said the government should contribute the lion 's share of a £350 million programme over five years to coordinate IT research in universities and industry . |
| 17 | He 's having a wonderful week here with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra , he says , with the opportunity to develop his Shostakovich programme over four performances . |
| 18 | DAG 's three-man team returned from Sri Lanka in September on completion of a large-scale programme over three years of local government training under the Urban Programme Unit 's Performance Improvement Programme . |
| 19 | A 100 million investment programme over three years has illus ; been announced , with a major programme of efficiency and productivity improvements at a time when the market has shown sharp and sudden decline . |
| 20 | WATMOUGHS , the colour printers , yesterday announced a new contract to print the News of the World colour magazine in 1994 , a 51 per cent jump in profits for 1992 and an ambitious £100 million investment programme over three years , writes Clifford German . |
| 21 | The positive K factor was intended to allow water prices to rise by more than the rate of inflation , in order to help finance a £18.65 billion investment programme over ten years . |
| 22 | On the streets of Northern Ireland , or on the battlefield over 3 centuries , the Glosters have a special bond to unite them . |
| 23 | In conclusion , research over eight decades has demonstrated the predictive validity of ability tests to be high , or certainly much higher than an interview . |
| 24 | Syremont , a subsidiary of the Italian chemical company Montedison , began this type of research over twenty years ago . |
| 25 | A study carried out at the University of California in Berkeley compared woman who maintained 20 per cent weight loss over two years with dieters who relapsed . |
| 26 | The Government had offered a 9 per cent deal over 18 months . |
| 27 | But at the other end of the scale , a £10-a-month investment over five years in the Friends Provident Stewardship Income fund ( now worth £683.88 ) and the Buckmaster Fellowship fund ( worth £667.98 ) would have been better off investing in a building society investment account ( worth £686.76 ) . |
| 28 | Golf : Thorpe Hall pair Jonathan Neal and Stephen Shields head the field of 16 qualifiers attempting to win the Keating Trophy over 36 holes at Romford today . |
| 29 | In fact , most industrial countries passed this figure over twenty-five years ago , with tax ratios of over 40% for some countries in the 1970s , yet they experienced low inflation and rapid growth of real incomes . |
| 30 | You can knit a braid over nine stitches by first crossing the six stitches to the left of the nine stitches , knitting three rows , then crossing the six stitches to the right and knitting three rows . |