Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since then a major row has broken out over Russian supplies to Ukraine . |
| 2 | Worldwide alcohol consumption has fallen by over 13 per cent in the last ten years , reinforcing a downward trend that began in the late 1970s . |
| 3 | The containment of public spending has won out over local choice ; reducing the state in this area has meant central government rolling back the local state . |
| 4 | The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) , with a more than three quarters of a million members , has grown by over 40 per cent since the end of last year . |
| 5 | It should be remembered that the average house price has risen by over 200 per cent during the Tory years . |
| 6 | The index has risen by over 60 per cent while turnover is much higher than the Swedish market , with its much larger market capitalisation . |
| 7 | Over the last ten years , seafood consumption in the US has risen by over 60 per cent . |
| 8 | Since that date the number of jobs in the service sector has risen by over three million . |
| 9 | Oh sorry so that 's that 's what it 's what it 's about so what we want to do then over these next two days is to develop the skills of design and delivery and will allow us to do that allow us to improve our performance despite the fact that we do have the nerves and by practice by doing it by putting yourself in the situation where you have to make a presentation and almost as one chap said one time sitting there actually with your sitting there remembering he said actually volunteer to make presentations to the other people there . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , I shall soon get my stripes back and I shall enjoy the excitement of the Commandos ; anyway my Piper friend , I shall enjoy running all over these hills . |
| 11 | Sometimes , when writing we repeat a word unknowingly and when we read it again we recognise that our pen has slipped back over old ground : we have not found the right word . |
| 12 | Er , certainly in sort of , transportation technology , the easier it is to trade , the more trade there will be , and transportation technology has increased dramatically over this year , so we can now ex exploit the comparative advantage that other countries have in particular commodities , whether they be agricultural or manufacturing , quite simply because transport costs are no longer prohibitive . |
| 13 | In a twelve hour period the number of lorries has increased by over two hundred — and it 's similar with commercial vans . |
| 14 | Jebel Ali container volume has increased by over five times since 1988 and general cargo will be more than tripled by the end of 1991 , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that spending on disability benefits by this Government has increased by over 150 per cent. , in contrast to the policies advocated by the Labour party , the priorities of which are pensions and child benefits ? |
| 16 | As a consequence , the number of ministerial appointees with farming experience has increased by over half since 1980 so that farming interests now predominate among the ministerially appointed members , as well as among the members appointed by the councils . |
| 17 | A : The number of pieces of ware needed from the Johnson Brothers factories has decreased considerably over recent years . |
| 18 | A political row has blown up over public grants to an american firm which is ending production in Scotland . |
| 19 | A political storm has blown up over public grants to American firm Conner Peripherals in Irvine which is ending Scottish production . |
| 20 | The nationality of the top five lead managers in the eurobond market has changed significantly over this period — in itself an indicator of the intense competition prevalent in the market . |
| 21 | He was speaking from a mind full of ideas and images , which all offered insight in varying ways , which he sought to reflect on over several years . |
| 22 | The labour camps , temperatures of 50 degrees below zero , a lifetime condemned to stare out over thousands of miles of the bleak , barren permafrost , where blindness eventually came as a minor blessing . |
| 23 | ‘ Any idea what 's going to go down over this ? ’ |
| 24 | It was a huge thing , hanging in the air from a beam , its duct turned to point down over one of the stalls . |
| 25 | ‘ So I 've arranged for a whistle-stop tour around the country houses of some influential contacts , and there are one or two long-standing debts and favours due to me that I 'm going to call in over this weekend . ’ |
| 26 | We were puttering up river late in the afternoon and the sun was beginning to go down over these huge trees and a flight of big birds , herons or something , were taking off like pink seaplanes as someone said and the second assistant suddenly stood up and yelled out This is paradise , this is fucking paradise . |
| 27 | ‘ But you would have thought that someone would have looked up over all those days . |
| 28 | It has been predicted that , by 2025 , vehicles on the road will have increased by over 100 per cent . |
| 29 | The plesiosaur argument claims that the subterranean passages became blocked off over thousands of years , leaving a remnant of the past trapped in the loch , defying the process of evolution . |
| 30 | This decrease was achieved in part by highway vehicles reducing their emissions by one-third during this decade even though the number of vehicle miles travelled increased by over one-third during the same period . |