Example sentences of "[conj] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , any child whose weight is on or over the ninety-seventh centile is seriously overweight . |
| 2 | There will be a range of thermal beard extensions which will simply clip on to or over the existing facial fur , providing the customer with that little bit of extra insulation . |
| 3 | This option allows the user to generate an alphanumerically ordered Relationships Listing which can be grouped either by individual charge code or over the entire LIFESPAN system . |
| 4 | It is unlike East London , where over the last ten or twenty years the heart has been torn out of manufacturing industry in the docks and with it has gone traditional working-class organisation . |
| 5 | To make an equivalent investment in one slice , rather than over the 15-year span recorded in this volume , would be an enormous burden . |
| 6 | I think that I am probably a bit sharper in the burst than over the long distance but during the two ‘ B ’ games I felt really sharp and I have been working on my speed and strength with the SRU fitness specialist , David McLean ’ . |
| 7 | In the 1990s the number of people of working age will either fall or grow more slowly than over the past two decades in all the big industrial economies , which should help to reduce dole queues . |
| 8 | In the first 20 days of December , car sales were 30% higher than over the same period in 1991 . |
| 9 | There were more kidnappings and hostage takings ( especially by organized gangs and during prison escapes ) in January-August 1989 than over the previous decade . |
| 10 | I noticed that over the four days Brian expanded on these subjects . |
| 11 | Will he now confirm , since he seems to regard all problems as being entirely domestic , that over the second half of the last year industrial production fell in the United States , in Japan and elsewhere and that Germany 's gross domestic product has now declined for three quarters in succession and Germany is in recession ? |
| 12 | There has been less debate on those here , and I guess that over the two days of the debate there will still be less . |
| 13 | Mr McNally : ‘ Is it correct that over the two days Mr Anderson was interviewed not one shred of forensic evidence was put to him ? ’ |
| 14 | A MAFF study in Staffordshire showed that over the 1978–81 period , 246 larger farmers ( 500 smds or above ) spent an average of £4,419 on capital works ( grant-aided ) while 202 smaller farmers ( 150–250 smds ) spent an average of only £328 . |
| 15 | Gershuny ( 1978 ) provides a counter-example to Braverman 's law of job degradation for the majority , by showing that over the 1960s in UK manufacturing industry the proportionate decline in skilled manual employment was significantly lower than the proportionate increase in the ‘ administrative and technical ’ section of the workforce . |
| 16 | The Guardian of April 3 reported that over the preceding months Treuhand had become the " focus of growing public anger " and was viewed as the " embodiment of eastern Germany 's economic misery " . |
| 17 | At any rate , it would be an exaggeration to speak of a collapse of militancy , or to infer that over the long term workers ' resistance can not be maintained . |
| 18 | Biological anthropology in the present context considers infants and their care within an evolutionary perspective , arguing that over the millions of years it has taken for humans to evolve , infant-parent contact was likely to have been virtually constant for at least the first year of life . |
| 19 | In my answers to the Murray Commission , I was not very complimentary to 40-overs Sunday cricket , thinking based on the fact that this version of the game is the one furthest removed from ‘ proper ’ cricket , and that over the 1991 season I had become so disenchanted with the Sunday slog ( in both senses ) that I had played so consistently badly on the Sabbath as to persuade my employers that somebody else might be more usefully selected on the day . |
| 20 | The winning issue carried an impressive number of topics from six pages of news items , to Thai Shell 's centenary and a meaty , commissioned article by political economist Susan Strange on corporate glue ; it 's the only corporate publication within the Shell group at a public level , ’ says Felton , adding that over the five years of his editorship , Shell has allowed him ‘ an awful lot of space ’ . |
| 21 | The KPMG barometer suggests that over the six years that fraud has been tracked , Scotland has been less affected than most regions , with total fraud in the overall period of £34.1 million or 2.1 per cent of the UK total reported . |
| 22 | Cruickshank believes that over the three years the results have been that ‘ so much of what we do is now being delineated by what the users want — the Patients ’ Charter is just one example of that — and health boards are taking much more time to get views , getting people like general practitioners contributing in strategy-setting and so on , so they are less likely to make mistakes . |
| 23 | It already has a labour force there of 15,000 and plans to double that over the next year or two , investing around DM1 billion . |
| 24 | The RYA says that over the next 10 years demand for new berths will reach 85,000 nationally on top of the present 190,000 . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , he forsees that over the next two years there may be problems as fleets dispose of the diesels acquired during the last oil-burner boom . |
| 26 | We should note that over the next decade about half the children aged from 7–11 years will not have adequate conditions to attend primary school normally in terms of the law on the National System of Education and that many other older children will be likewise unable to attend school . |
| 27 | The basis for that is that over the next few years the South Africans will be on an upward learning curve after being without international competition for so long . |
| 28 | All we ask is that over the next year , you make four more selections from over 300 titles for children of all ages — each picked by our expert panel for its quality and educational value , and described for you in our free monthly magazine . |
| 29 | Mead says that over the next several years it will move from a mainframe-centric architecture to a more flexible Unix environment , and Hewlett products are being incorporated as components of Mead Data 's internally developed Lexis and Nexis legal , business , financial and medical databases . |
| 30 | A market economy in China promises to mean that over the next decade Asia 's geography can reassert itself . |