Example sentences of "over the [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | THE Scottish champion , Peter Nicol , failed to repeat his recent league victory over the former British champion , Paul Gregory , and suffered a disappointing 3-0 defeat in yesterday 's first round of the British Players ' Championship at Cheshunt , Hertfordshire , writes Elspeth Burnside . |
| 32 | He cited among other threats the loss of Russian central control over the former Soviet Union 's vast nuclear arsenal . |
| 33 | Teams of officials from Britain , Hong Kong and China had spent five days haggling over the many points of disagreement left over from the visit of Douglas Hurd , the British foreign secretary , to China last month . |
| 34 | Miss Danziger had heard a variety of interpretations over the many years . … |
| 35 | Being harder and more durable , they also have withstood the elements over the many centuries that have passed since their arrival , while their softer plinths have been eroded by wind and rain and frost , leaving unaffected only those parts actually under the ‘ umbrella ’ protection of the boulders above . |
| 36 | However both males and females differ in the control which they have over the many muscles , including the diaphragm , used in voice production . |
| 37 | Over the many years preceding the period now being described the ownership of properties and land in Combsburgh had changed hands many times . |
| 38 | Over the many hundreds of years that Night Goblins have lived in the tunnels they have become quite used to dealing with these fearsome creatures . |
| 39 | But I would not be true to myself if I did not record my own thanks to all who serve on the Board for their hard and devoted work and at this time , to take a moment to thank the retiring vice convenor Bill for his work , his prayers , his support , his wisdom and his fellowship over the many years that he and I have served together . |
| 40 | All things considered , however , the film does n't exactly fly so much as hope from one gag to the next , relying on the awe of Brando and affection for the Kellog character to carry it over the many black spots . |
| 41 | Although this place has heard tales of much horror and beastliness over the many generations that hon. Members have spoken about the plight of victims throughout the history of this place , I suggest that the plight of the people whose human rights we will discuss this morning transcends almost every other horror that we have heard here . |
| 42 | Taking these two points into consideration leads us to the conclusion that meaningful chain dimensions can only be values averaged over the many conformations assumed . |
| 43 | All things considered , however , the film does n't exactly fly so much as hope from one gag to the next , relying on the awe of Brando and affection for the Kellog character to carry it over the many black spots . |
| 44 | John , one of the PPLs at our flying club , had made a beautiful job of building his little Jodel and I had followed his progress closely over the several years it had taken him to complete it . |
| 45 | The Tokugawa confirmed their hold on power by a complex structure of physical , political and economic controls over the several hundred local lords ( daimyo ) whose domains ( han ) made up the rest of the country , the samurai ( warrior ) class who constituted their followers and the populace who resided within their territories . |
| 46 | Over the same period , the Church of Ireland experienced continuing rounds of church closures and became top-heavy in numbers of clergy . |
| 47 | Over the same period BR 's annual freight tonnage fell only marginally , from 169 million tonnes to 149 million tonnes , so the reduction in size of the wagon fleet was a remarkable achievement . |
| 48 | Over the same period new business almost doubled to FFr68.4bn , total loans and other financings grew from FFr94.3bn to FFr146bn , and savings managed jumped from FFr6.3bn to FFr29.9bn . |
| 49 | Medium qualities have also risen noticeably , from 98p to 145p , over the same period . |
| 50 | Over the same period university expenditure , where more research is undertaken , was fairly constant at about £5,200 per student . |
| 51 | London and the South-east will have to absorb 900,000 extra households over the same span of years . |
| 52 | ‘ They are all fighting over the same cake . |
| 53 | The difference between Kinnock 's visibility to those with high and low levels of political interest dropped from 45 per cent before the campaign to 20 per cent at the end of the campaign ; the difference between his visibility to highbrow and lowbrow paper readers dropped from 28 per cent to a mere 5 per cent ; but over the same period the difference between his visibility amongst viewers and nonviewers of television news actually rose slightly . |
| 54 | Conan suggests that Australia may have received £550 million from Britain in the period 1945–51 , South Africa perhaps £400 million over the same period . |
| 55 | Figures from the Public Health Laboratory Service ( PHLS ) revealed 7,848 confirmed cases of salmonella during the first six months of this year , a 17% decrease over the same period last year . |
| 56 | Over the same period , over 400,000 immigrants have come to Britain and over a million people have emigrated to other countries . |
| 57 | Over the same distance , people use two and a half times more energy ( per kilogram of their bulk ) than the average camel . |
| 58 | That was better than the OECD ( Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ) European average of 106 falling to 89 over the same period . |
| 59 | The number out of work fell from a seasonally-adjusted peak of 3.1m ( 11.2% of the workforce ) in July 1986 to a low of 1.6m ( 5.6% ) in March 1990 , while the rise in earnings jumped by only two percentage points over the same period , to 9.5% . |
| 60 | Over the same period Canada 's industrial output fell 2.8% . |