Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] [noun sg] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the oral phases , extending over the first year or so of life , his main concerns involve activities like sucking , swallowing and biting ; and the nature of his oral experiences during this period will have considerable repercussions in the long as well as the short term . |
| 2 | Over the coming year or so X/Open will introduce a range of XPG profiles — the XPG portability guide is a subset of CAE — to cope with the volume of technology areas it now embraces ( there are 37 XPG specifications in total ) . |
| 3 | Over the past decade or so we have also seen changes in our lifestyle with dogs . |
| 4 | This is just one more sign that the courts may be balancing the scales of justice a little more fairly than has been the case over the past decade or so . |
| 5 | Prompted by the rapid development of medical technology over the past decade or so , the medical community has come to reject the notion that death is associated exclusively with breathing and heartbeat , the ‘ vital functions ’ . |
| 6 | Over the past decade or so , all this has changed . |
| 7 | SALES of mistletoe at Christmas have been reducing over the past decade or so . |
| 8 | Over the past decade or so , there has been evidence to show that an increasing number of low-paid families in work were caught in the poverty trap . |
| 9 | When considering transport , it is fashionable to say that transport has changed dramatically over the past decade or so , and no one would deny that . |
| 10 | Employee trusts have increased in popularity over the past decade or so as a method of providing incentives for employees . |
| 11 | In RENFE , collective bargaining over the past decade or so has basically been a process of dismantling the framework of Francoist labour regulation and replacing it with a series of negotiated agreements . |
| 12 | In the UK , the service sector has grown tremendously over the past decade or so , largely because manufacturers have attempted to reduce labour intensive tasks . |
| 13 | And apologies if any of you have tried sending mail and stuff to the list or listserv over the past hour or so ; it was n't working . |
| 14 | Though she had nothing remotely suitable with her to wear to a party , over the past hour or so , as she 'd arranged salami slices and stuffed olives and listened to Agnese and Filippo 's bubbly chatter , she 'd found herself slipping into a party mood . |
| 15 | Maps that use these peculiar motions to build up pictures of the amount of matter in space have been prepared by various researchers over the past year or so . |
| 16 | Over the past year or so , there has been growing concern about the number of cheques being stolen in the post . |
| 17 | ‘ I used to let the critics get to me but over the past year or so I have learned to relax and not worry . |
| 18 | The staff of the Unit continues largely unchanged , though we have been pleased to have had four postdoctorals associated with our activities over the past year or so . |
| 19 | So much depends upon individual circumstances that little would be gained from cataloguing here the many court cases on this subject over the past century or so . |
| 20 | Over the past week or so . |
| 21 | In fact , the courts have progressively narrowed this species of manslaughter over the last century or so : there was a time when the mere commission of a tort or civil wrong sufficed as the ‘ unlawful act ’ , and when there was no additional requirement of ‘ dangerousness ’ to be satisfied . |
| 22 | But a study of the Roman coins accumulated over the last century or so in museums has thrown up consistent differences between northern France and Italy , enabling certain conclusions to be drawn about the currencies of those areas . |
| 23 | Despite legal changes , smaller families and improved educational and employment opportunities over the last century or so , marked inequalities remain between the social and economic roles of men and women . |
| 24 | Over the last century or so there have been frequent conflicts between individual and group interests . |
| 25 | He argues that over the last century or so the number of white-collar jobs has increased rapidly , but at the same time the skill required to do the jobs has been reduced . |
| 26 | That would certainly make a welcome change , since the weakness of trade over the last year or so has clearly deepened the recession . |
| 27 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 28 | Nearly all the leading contenders have all been eliminated over the last year or so . |
| 29 | This pattern has been changing ; there is a tendency now for girls to keep their babies , and over the last year or so girls have been sent there for a variety of other reasons , but essentially so that they can be assessed on their ability to care for their child . |
| 30 | This can , as we have all seen over the last year or so in particular , have very severe effects on normally solvent companies . |