Example sentences of "[verb] over the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But both companies ' increase in money sales merely matched the six-fold increase in the retail prices index over the 20 years . |
| 2 | ‘ We hope over the five years to make a significant impact into solving the area 's many problems , ’ said Coun Carr . |
| 3 | Tony Baldwin of The Fairline Bookshop , , took over the 600 sq ft shop after he retired from teaching in 1983 . |
| 4 | Even so , the larger features in Figure 9.3 are visible from the Earth and many have been observed to hardly change over the 100 or so years for which Jupiter has been subject to extensive and continuous observation with powerful telescopes . |
| 5 | Gaddafi again held out the possibility of handing over the two men for trial by the Arab League in an Arab country , saying such a solution would be ‘ fine ’ . |
| 6 | The UN Security Council on March 31 approved Resolution 748 that if Libya on April 15 had still failed to comply with the UN resolution of Jan. 21 by handing over the two Lockerbie bombing suspects [ see p. 38743 ] , UN member-states would impose mandatory sanctions against Libya . |
| 7 | None seemed to begrudge handing over the thousands of dollars in tolls payable in cash by each ship to the Canal Commission , which brought in more than £150 million in 1988 . |
| 8 | He is chairman of the authority that has taken over the 16,200 hectare ( 40,000 acre ) site and mayor of Olongapo City , the town that grew up alongside the base . |
| 9 | I do n't know whether this will be acceptable to Policy and Resources Committee or the Council at the end of the day , but essentially what is showing there is something that , taken over the three years meets er , a figure equivalent to the annual but it does n't do it uniformly over the three years . |
| 10 | Push the icing down well into the bag , fold over the two corners into the centre and then the top corner over this . |
| 11 | 2 a ) Did " Certo " sales increase over the six weeks ? b ) By how much ? |
| 12 | 13 a ) Did " Toothless " sales increase over the six week period ? b ) By how much ? |
| 13 | increase over the 1990-91 settlement . |
| 14 | Active code page not available from CON device as long as you have a standard UK keyboard , with the pounds sign over the 3 key , then ‘ Current Keyboard code : UK ’ is what you are looking for . |
| 15 | The International Court of Justice in The Hague yesterday rejected Col Gaddafi 's request for an injunction to prevent Britain , the United States and France from putting pressure on Libya to hand over the two suspects . |
| 16 | Earlier , all three countries dismissed an offer to hand over the two men to Malta . |
| 17 | Sanctions , including a ban on air traffic and arms sales and the reduction in Libyan diplomatic representation , went into effect at dawn yesterday with the expiry of a grace period for Col Gaddafi to hand over the two suspected bombers of a Pan Am jumbo jet which exploded over Lockerbie , Scotland , in December 1988 . |
| 18 | The sanctions are designed to force Libya to hand over the two Lockerbie suspects and to co-operate in the investigation in a similar case , the mid-air explosion of a French airliner over Africa in 1989 . |
| 19 | Libya 's response , presented to the Security Council by UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on Feb. 12 , refused to hand over the two men , offering instead to try them in Libya . |
| 20 | On March 1 the Libyan Secretary for Foreign Affairs , Ibrahim Bishari , said after a meeting in Cairo with the Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev that Libya " is ready to hand over the two suspects for trial in front of a neutral court in any neutral country " . |