Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [prep] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Labour and Liberal Democrats made gains in elections held on May 2 for over 12,000 seats on 369 local ( district ) councils in England ( excluding Greater London ) and Wales . |
| 2 | The Conservative Party made net gains of 308 seats in local elections held on May 7 for over 3,800 seats on 207 local district councils in England , Scotland and Wales , only one month after the general election in which it was returned to power for a fourth term [ see pp. 38868-69 ] . |
| 3 | Elections were held on May 6-7 to over 6,000 town councils , and to 87 provincial governments and the regional councils ( parliaments ) of the 15 regions governed by normal statute ( Liguria , Piedmont , Lombardy , Veneto , Emilia-Romagna , Tuscany , Umbria , Marches , Abruzzi , Latium , Molise , Apulia , Campania , Basilicata and Calabria ) . |
| 4 | One February Sunday , on just about the coldest night I 've ever known , four of us queued up outside a cinema in Golders Green for over an hour to see Crocodile Dundee . |
| 5 | York 's director of housing services Bob Towner said the city council 's waiting list stood at almost 2,750 on April 1 with over 600 families on the homeless list . |
| 6 | These factors help explain some of the reasons why the total number of ACET clients covered at any one time by our on call service in London has more than doubled from 70 in April 1990 to over 150 by March 1991 ; and why the nature of the services required has become so much more sophisticated . |