Example sentences of "[prep] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all the interests of our citizens have been looked after over the last twelve years . |
| 2 | Start thinking today what you would really like to work towards over the next few months and even years . |
| 3 | The disk version of Over The Net features different backdrops for the four beaches . |
| 4 | Er , er it I think the whole place is sort of over the other side there 's a , sort of a bridge there and possibly , I mean , I 'm sure that I 've seen a photograph from the other side . |
| 5 | Not much was said of over the next four hours , and the identities of Sixsmith 's supplicants emerged only partially and piecemeal . |
| 6 | there 's a thousand pound he said , you know , if you can make it right sort of over the next month but he said basically I can not do anything until erm the end of February , he said you come in the end of February he said and then we can start to sort it out , he said I ca n't do anything for you until then . |
| 7 | He then assumes that for each country the rate of growth of aggregate demand or nominal spending has followed a very simple process ; that is , where is the rate of growth of the ith country 's nominal spending , is the mean value of over the whole period , and is the deviation of from its mean . |
| 8 | I do n't get red , I 've never have done I , its only sort of over the past sort of half year , and I do n't know why , they never started , started to go red |
| 9 | Unlike over the past 11 years , say . |
| 10 | The discovery that she was — goodness knows why — still in love with her husband was something she had fought hard and long against over the past few days . |
| 11 | She 'd invited every theatre and film person she 'd run into over the past few years , and a lot she had n't . |
| 12 | Deputy Chief executive Dominic Fitzpatrick confirms that the most difficult area they had to deal with over the last year has been the advertising element . |
| 13 | The person you 've been working with over the last couple of days . |
| 14 | ‘ What remains is the problem which I have been concerned with over the past year , which is to try to regenerate enough political pressure within the international community to oblige Iran to reverse its current policy . |
| 15 | My next step is to decide what I am going to use to pre-bait with over the next three weeks . |
| 16 | The first specks of light rain fell on Trent 's face as he looked up to see the motor yacht 's captain studying him from over the brilliantly-varnished taffrail . |
| 17 | With England now the enemy , this was inevitably one of the most vulnerable places in the northern kingdom — and indeed had been captured early in the Wars of Independence by Edward Plantagenet and remained in English hands ever since , its garrison readily supplied and reinforced from over the nearby Border . |
| 18 | There was a strange rasping noise coming from over the next rise . |
| 19 | These were the number accidents the driver reported having being involved in over the past five years and the number of near misses they had experienced in the previous year . |
| 20 | But Government put more than £2 billion a year into UK farming now and would put an extra £2.4 billion in over the next three years . |
| 21 | In the 1970s Soviet commentators accepted that despite Turkish participation in ‘ imperialist blocs ’ , which acted to restrict joint Turkish actions with the non-aligned states in resolving international problems , such as over the Middle East and disarmament , Turkey and the non-aligned countries faced ‘ very many similar problems ’ . |
| 22 | Plans are far from fixed , but the replacement could be be Hewlett-Packard Co 's PA RISC , since the Japanese firm has already reportedly pledged to buy $80m worth over the next three or four years . |
| 23 | I 'm sure that over the years , you 'll have er , gone through some of the experiences that Madeline and I have been talking about over the last five minutes . |
| 24 | Mr Baker said the main area of concern for over the next few years was ‘ serious downturn ’ in the economies of export markets in Europe and Japan . |
| 25 | If your particular interest in the aquatics hobby is catfish then you have had a bumper year , for over the last twelve months various different catfish especially Corydoras and Plecs have been appearing , that are both new to the hobby and beautiful . |
| 26 | THE MAJOR purses Duke McKenzie has fought and campaigned for over the last seven years could finally be just two victories away . |
| 27 | As a life-long Socialist , Baroness Castle admits that politics has been the breath of life to her for over the last 50 years . |
| 28 | Would it have any grass at all ? he wondered , for over the past few miles the grass had become scarce , huddled together in tiny clumps or hiding behind rocks for shelter . |
| 29 | The arts world has almost grown accustomed to the hand-to-mouth condition in which it is kept , but what it has not become resigned to over the long period of Tory rule is the positive hostility to its aims and values . |
| 30 | It was built in the 13th century on older foundations , as a shared church , serving both a convent of nuns and the local parish , and was added to over the next five centuries . |