Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] over [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All manner of Masters records were broken over the first 36 holes . |
| 2 | Just as they were puzzling over the next move the man rang back to tell them that they were on a wild goose chase . |
| 3 | Figure 5 shows their distribution with time ; 49% occurred in the first four seconds after the onset of the common cavity episode and 34% were scattered over the 5th to the 27th second after the onset of the common cavity . |
| 4 | A spokesman said more cash calls were expected over the next few months as members become faced with increasing demands from agents to meet large losses . |
| 5 | To these eight , a further thirteen children were added over the next twenty years . |
| 6 | But it has also been argued that the basic features of positivism applied to all causal theories of crime , whether biological ( as in the case of the founding fathers ) , psychological or sociological , that were to appear over the next half century or more ( Jeffery , 1960 ; Matza , 1964 ) . |
| 7 | The VAS were averaged over the first 3 days of admission ( any patient with data missing was omitted from the analysis ) and these means compared by Mann-Whitney U tests . |
| 8 | Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track . |
| 9 | Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track . |
| 10 | Within the two weeks confidently predicted by Havelock Wilson company after company and local shipowner association after association made its peace with advances in wages and on 28 June some 100 shipowners met in London and decided , among other things , on the standardisation of the local rates which were accepted over the next few days . |
| 11 | Fortnightly intramuscular injections of 50 mg mycocrisin were administered over the next three months . |
| 12 | The great abbeys established as a thank-offering by the victorious Normans were complemented over the next four hundred years by a number of smaller foundations , dictated by the tenets of fashion and individual piety . |
| 13 | It was formed over the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries by the Princes zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck , and displayed at Schloss Dyck , their picturesque Rhineland ‘ water-castle ’ in the north-west of the country near Düsseldorf . |
| 14 | Whaddon saw their acceptance into the Combination as the first tentative step towards professional League football , and work was undertaken over the next five years on building and improving basic facilities at ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 15 | A cover was installed over the second seat and a new canopy and windscreen were built . |
| 16 | Expansion of the routes was expected over the next decade . |
| 17 | Urine was collected over the first 6 hours after PEG deposition . |
| 18 | Nobody else was moved over the next couple of days so we talked endlessly about what it might mean . |
| 19 | Broadly speaking the interest of the State in vocational guidance , registration and placement , and after-care , marks the beginning of its concern with wage-earning youth , which was to develop over the next twenty years with the formation of the Juvenile Organizations Committee in 1916 , the various measures to ameliorate juvenile unemployment between the wars , and the inauguration in 1939 of The ‘ Youth Service ’ , each of which was a response to economic and social pressures , and all of which refined and extended the image of youth . |
| 20 | What emerged over the first half of the century was a financial system which , if limited by comparison with what was to develop over the next two centuries , was capable of mobilising substantial funds and of providing most of the essential services needed by a diversifying economy growing both in output and in sophistication . |
| 21 | With the return to market relations for the bulk of the economy there also arose the need for a stable currency ; this was effected over the next few years with the introduction of a new , gold based rouble , alongside the paper Soviet rouble which was finally driven out of circulation . |
| 22 | Mrs Fletcher was bending over the last of a bed of weeds , hoping finally to rid herself of them before her husband returned from the potato harvesting . |
| 23 | In terms of world production , OPEC output was estimated over the second half of 1988 and the first half of 1989 to have represented about 34 per cent of the total ; in addition approximately 20 per cent was produced by the Soviet Union and about 15 per cent by the United States , around 5 per cent each by Mexico and China , and about 3 per cent each by the United Kingdom and Canada . |
| 24 | Its theme of ‘ the disintegration of African social life ’ pointed to a concept of applied anthropology — ‘ a dynamic science of man in the service of Africa ’ — which Smith was to advocate over the next two decades . |
| 25 | The policy was cleared over the next few days and on 19 March I told the House of Commons that |