Example sentences of "[prep] over [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After over eight years of rule by the strongly pro-US Jamaica Labour Party , a period marked by great hardship as the economy was forcibly ‘ restructured ’ , the February 1989 election returned Michael Manley 's People 's National Party . |
| 2 | The failure of the League of Nations in Danzig was a failure of nerve and understanding on the part of the member states : unforgivably they minimised the difficulty and frustrations of the position they had carved for Poland — a country emerging to modernity after over 100 years of partition , a country without financial capital , with hostile neighbours , border problems , huge minorities but without a port of its own . |
| 3 | But the importance of being a woman in the rock arena can not be over-emphasised — even in 1992 , after over 30 years of the genre , it must be celebrated , because the new breed , this new chapter is gaining power , momentum and energy . |
| 4 | He replaces Sir Robert Reid who retires in March from his £95,000 a year post after over 40 years in the railway industry . |
| 5 | Still popular , and made in new materials with plastic or nylon sail , the Peter Powell kite has introduced millions to the sight of its long tube tails following the looping flight pattern , and still , after over 15 years of its production when all else around has seen so much change , is a firm recommendation for anyone wishing to take up stunt flying for the first time . |
| 6 | After two hours Ii managed to get David to sign the papers knowing full well that , after over 12 years of living in those conditions , I would probably want to die myself . |
| 7 | I understand that recent tests undertaken in Germany by PFI , ( the German equivalent to SATRA , the Northamptonshire based Footwear Technology Centre ) , have shown that after over 600 miles of testing , the Head Anatom revealed a reduction in height of less than a millimetre . |
| 8 | With a capacity of over 100,000 tonnes of methyl methacrylate , ICI is the second biggest producer in Europe , fifth in the world . |
| 9 | This gave an average population density of over 1600 inhabitants per square mile in 1981 . |
| 10 | The first part of the statement announced a specific policy relating to prisoners serving determinate sentences of over five years for offences of violence or drug trafficking . |
| 11 | According to the Global Environment Monitoring System , the city of Xian has the highest levels measured anywhere , at an average density of over 500 micrograms per cubic metre ( Shenyang and Beijing are third and fourth , with around 400 mcg per cubic metre . |
| 12 | The record was beaten just a year later , but Worrell is still the only batsman to share in two partnerships of over 500 runs in first-class cricket . |
| 13 | There was a transfer waiting list of over 500 applicants in early 1980 in South Hams , and many of these , if moved , would release houses for families , especially if they were elderly persons waiting to go into purpose-built flats . |
| 14 | These consultants co-ordinate the work of over 100 specialists in the professional services divisions of local NCR subsidiaries . |
| 15 | These consultants co-ordinate the work of over 100 specialists in the professional services divisions of local NCR subsidiaries . |
| 16 | He will also get a national squad of over 100 players into place . |
| 17 | Art show AN exhibition of over 100 paintings by the National Society of Botanic Artists is to be held at Erddig Hall , Wrexham , between June 13–27 . |
| 18 | During conference debate on industrial law , Brenda Dean , general secretary of the print union Sogat , attacked Mr Maxwell over the treatment of over 100 workers at the Nuffield Press in Oxford who , she said , had to agree to individual contracts or be sacked at the end of the week . |
| 19 | The results of a survey of over 5000 managers in 9 countries is presented in Table 2.1 . |
| 20 | Workers ' Compensation reported an increase in premium income on a reduced policy count and achieved an improvement of over 4.6 points in the Operating Ratio . |
| 21 | Concurrent with the arrest of Guiding Lights , a combined police and customs task force swooped on twenty five addresses in London to unearth a further cache of over two tons of cannabis in a garage . |
| 22 | In a study of over 200 women with abnormal results , each woman was compared with a control matched for obesity , age , ethnicity , and parity and who had screened negative for glucose intolerance . |
| 23 | There are , however , wide variations , ranging from densities of over 200 persons per hectare in some inner wards in London to virtually uninhabited remote moorland areas in Scotland . |
| 24 | About 17 acres was scheduled for the development of over 200 houses by Poole Borough Council , which had granted itself planning permission in early 1989 . |
| 25 | A sea passage of over 200 kilometres from mainland Asia and hostile terrain enabled her to develop more or less free of some of the pressures encouraged by closer geographical proximity — for example , population movements and territorial aggression — and fostered cultural and racial homogeneity . |
| 26 | The definitive work on sleep norms at different ages is by Robert Williams , Ismet Karacan and Carolyn Hursch from the Florida Sleep Laboratory who recorded the normal sleep patterns of over 200 subjects between three and seventy years of age and older over a period of fifteen years . |
| 27 | Recent vault clearances of over 2,000 coffins of the period 1729–1865 from St Marylebone Parish Church and Christchurch , Spitalfields , 18 exhibit a change in attitude ; for here , whilst it was not unusual to find wedding rings and dentures in situ , there were two instances — both men — of day-clothes having been used in place of the shroud : one in military uniform , the other an octogenarian macaroni with his walking stick , sporting an outfit more suited to a man sixty years his junior , as did the coiffure of his wig . |
| 28 | A shortfall of over 300,000 tonnes of rice was projected for the 1990/91 harvest , a result in part of drought and flooding , but also because of the displacement of farmers by guerrilla activity . |
| 29 | Paisley responded with public protest meetings and a march of over 6,000 loyalists to the City Hall Cenotaph where Councillor James McCarroll , a Protestant Unionist and an elder of Paisley 's church , laid a wreath : ‘ In memory of the members of the UVF , RUC and other civilian population [ sic ] who died in defence of the Ulster Constitution at the hands of Rebel Forces during and since the 1916 rising . ’ |
| 30 | The Foxton summit level is an artificial cut at a height of over 413 feet above sea level , and crosses in its 20 mile length the watersheds of 4 rivers . |