Example sentences of "[noun prp] over the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In a country where anything so conspicuous as reducing food subsidies courts trouble , cut backs in the health sector may seem a safer bet ( in 1977 7.7 per cent of GNP was devoted to health care , down from 9.5 per cent in 1955 ; in comparison , proportions in the United States over the same period rose from 8 per cent to 11 per cent ) . |
2 | In contrast , the drop in the United Kingdom over the same period has been from 4.4 to 3.1 per 100,000 of the population — a reduction of 32 per cent . |
3 | These cases highlight the need for vigilance in patients at risk and suggest that the epidemic of parvovirus in the UK over the latter part of 1992 is still continuing . |
4 | It faced north , with a splendid view of the Bay and Old Harry over the former orchard-garden of the Royal Victoria Hotel , but now developed as ‘ Peveril Heights ’ . |
5 | In an earlier article in this Journal , I dealt with the county representation to Westminster over the same period and showed the abuses to which the elections by the Freeholders gave rise . |
6 | Comparing chloride concentration with rainfall at St Louis and water flow in the Senegal River over the same period has displayed the signature of droughts ( in the 1970s , 1940s and 1910s ) and of intervening periods of higher rainfall and river flow . |
7 | RICHARD GOUGH , the subject of a Scottish League investigation for alleged statements that amounted to an illegal approach on Rangers behalf to Dundee United 's Duncan Ferguson , has now fallen foul of the SFA over the same player . |
8 | The postwar changes resulted in a prolonged boom , with exceptionally high rates of growth , from 1950 until the early 1970s , in the capitalist countries ( Postan , 1967 ; Maddison , 1982 ) , and similarly rapid growth in Eastern Europe over the same period . |