Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The methods he used then had altered little over the years , but he was aware change was in the air . |
| 2 | Sideshows have varied little over the years . |
| 3 | That car 's been parked there over a week , and I was just beginning to wonder about ringing the police . |
| 4 | It was announced on state radio on Jan. 4 that Goma-Foutou , in his capacity as Territorial Administration Minister , had banned state radio journalists from broadcasting news about opposition parties ; these had been legalized just over a week earlier . |
| 5 | Sunnie , the 78-year-old wife of Jackie Mann , who was freed just over a year ago , briefly regained consciousness before passing away . |
| 6 | Presiding from the centre of the dais , Mr Crumwallis looked as if he had told wearily over every second of every minute of the watches of that night . |
| 7 | His wife had died just over a year earlier ; one of his daughters was a teacher in Tel Aviv , the other a painter , and Shlomo Green was himself a sculptor of some distinction . |
| 8 | This was precisely the situation in which Charles and Elizabeth found themselves in 1772 ; and we may surmise that they did what brother John was to do later — in the absence of Thomas the Calvinist , who had died just over a year previously , they honoured Charles 's elder brother William by making him the godfather and giving the child his Christian name . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've got just over a week . |
| 10 | We 've invested well over a million pound in micro-computers for the teaching of pupils right across the three phases of first , middle , and upper schools . |
| 11 | This was clearly illustrated just over a week ago when , by the cynical abuse of the legislative process , they introduced an amendment to the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill at the eleventh hour in the Lords . |
| 12 | Di Driver brought along some photographs taken just over a year ago . |
| 13 | It began in September 1989 and has taken just over a year to finalise all the details with the design being personally approved by Her Majesty The Queen . |
| 14 | the new boat is just arriving in the showroom … only these two have been launched so far … it 's taken just over a year to design and develop … |
| 15 | Late last night he was believed to have taken well over a third of all the votes cast in the Sicilian capital . |
| 16 | The whole block was completely destroyed just over a week ago in a fire that claimed the lives of two firemen . |
| 17 | We have now licensed well over a hundred cable TV networks and this new industry expects to invest £3,000 million over the next five years . |
| 18 | Total permanent grassland represented 65% of the utilised agricultural land and this proportion has changed little over the years . |
| 19 | The Red Lion Milford Street façade has changed little over the years but the adjoining shop at the Catherine Street corner has had a number of owners in different retail trades . |
| 20 | The two great Norfolk courses are not only similar in style ; each is the focal point of a charmingly old-fashioned resort that has changed little over the years . |
| 21 | The picture on the costs and deprivations of work is fairly clear : manual workers suffer more than non-manual workers and the differences between the two groups appear to have changed little over the years . |
| 22 | The village and surrounding farms have changed little over the centuries ; the Aleppo Merchants Inn , standing on the route of the old Roman road , was first licensed in 1632 . |
| 23 | Trani Cathedral was a large pilgrimage church built by the edge of the sea in a setting which appears to have changed little over the centuries . |
| 24 | And it 's changed little over the centuries . |
| 25 | It seems that medics have not changed much over a hundred years . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've been married just over a year , ’ said Gaynor , ‘ and we do n't want to start a family just yet . |