Example sentences of "[adv] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The larger unincorporated industrial towns could petition for incorporation under this Act and many did so over the following years . |
| 2 | We tended to think of Sandy as a liability because he had been so over the past years . |
| 3 | The additional attraction of moving to a central control , for some , is that it has often been argued , and increasingly so over the past 20 years , that debt charges do not measure ‘ cost of service ’ and should not be charged to detailed revenue accounts anyway . |
| 4 | Fewer than 1 in 5 of the men in our sample has confined his sexual experience to a single partner , though two-thirds of them have done so over the last 12 months . |
| 5 | So over the next few months we 'll be looking at the underlying organization of Windows from a practical point of view ; showing you exactly how to install , run and remove applications ( and other things , like printer drivers ) from Windows . |
| 6 | There was a lot of helpful feedback from these pieces so over the next few months I will try to provide a few more examples to expand this work . |
| 7 | As our study has also shown that most subjects who were seropositive in 1969 remained so over the next 21 years , it is probable that the high prevalence of H pylori antibodies seen in elderly subjects is at least in part a reflection of greater exposure to the infection in earlier years . |
| 8 | so over the next five minutes sort it out . |
| 9 | Now an endowment is obviously based on a principle of interest only on l loan , so over the same term , of twenty years , you 've only ever paid interest off the loan and you still owe th a after twenty years , you 'd still owe the building society ten thousand pounds . |
| 10 | America inherited Britain 's thankless task of trying to maintain a semblance of stability in the Middle East , and has been singularly unsuccessful in doing so over the three decades that have passed since Suez . |
| 11 | His problems have increased greatly over the past eight years . |
| 12 | While the proportion of mentally ill among homeless people has probably not changed greatly over the past two decades , the absolute number has probably doubled in parallel with the number of homeless people . |
| 13 | I hope that the waiting list for cardiac surgery will reduce greatly over the next year . |
| 14 | There has been so much drama , not only over the first two days , when Henri Leconte had made his fairy tale return to Davis Cup play with his stunning defeat of Sampras in the second singles and then his inspirational contribution to France 's doubles success as he and Forget maintained an 8–0 unbeaten record together in the competition , that it was both right and proper that there should have been more to come . |
| 15 | The " good years " of textile out-workers , for example , began before the war but lasted only over the first half of it . |
| 16 | The appellate jurisdiction of the Paris Parlement not only over the three dioceses of Limoges , Càhors and Périgueux , but the whole of the duchy , meant that a constant ducal presence at Paris was necessary . |
| 17 | The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century . |
| 18 | It was only over the last six holes that Faldo put a spurt on . |
| 19 | Only over the last few months had she noticed the subtle swing of attention away from her towards medical students , or the younger female doctors . |
| 20 | Cultural contamination of soil on a large scale has occurred only over the last 200 years and is generally absent in the more remote areas . |
| 21 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 22 | And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election . |
| 23 | Leaning in over the sleeping child I must have wanted to see myself as the angel , hovering in protection of an infant who was so obviously in peril . |
| 24 | Sea-water was washing in over the slippery grey stones . |
| 25 | But what er what happened is when they rebuilt this building in the fifteenth century the masons found these and reused them reset them inside because they 'd lost their significance in over the three hundred years , so but they were useful structural er things . |
| 26 | This is our first effort at a full newsletter and we now really appreciate how much effort Lynn has put in over the last few years . |
| 27 | He became aware of the disapproving looks his noisy party were receiving from some of the older locals who had drifted in over the last hour . |
| 28 | And er at the end of it I think we all felt we knew where we were going , and , and what the work that we 'd put in over the last three years on the management procedures , which form the foundations of our quality system . |
| 29 | His followers at the Yorkshire track have raked it in over the last five years with a 1 level stake on all his mounts showing more than 45 to the good . |
| 30 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |