Example sentences of "it [was/were] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was over a decade later that the link between ‘ personal troubles ’ and ‘ public issues of social structure ’ of clinical depression and women 's daily experience was demonstrated ( Brown and Harris , 1978 ) .
2 Their enthusiasm remains as infectious in the 90s as it was over a decade ago and we proudly welcome them to the Guinness Spot for their first and keenly anticipated visit to Belfast .
3 when I lost my weight with slimming we were try I was losing two pounds a week and I were n't starving , I was still drinking and it come off and I lost , I lost about I think it was about eighteen pounds , it was over a stone .
4 It was over a fortnight now since they 'd last met , outside the office .
5 Otherwise it is as complete as it was over a century ago , with no less than 700 lots being offered for sale in two parts .
6 It was over a titbit on the floor and occurred after a period when they growled at each other at feeding time .
7 When it was over the truck was unloaded and normal business resumed .
8 According to the leading present-day authority on this sector , Professor Supple , it was over the course of the eighteenth century that it assumed its modern form and structure , with agencies and branches , inter-company coordination of premium rates and policy conditions , and averaging of claims .
9 and it was it was over the footbridge you know when you go into Morpeth instead of turning
10 It was over the night I accompanied you to that dinner and backed up your story .
11 He would n't even tell me what it was over the phone . ’
12 It would be better to make the discharge below the level of the grating of the gully even if it was over the gully before , to prevent leaves and garden debris blocking the gully .
13 Well I was er it would be about nineteen twenty two , I was about , cos I , I was er used trip the light fantastic fantastic a bit you know when I ran about seventeen and we used to which billiard hall there was an entrance from Street and it went up the steps into the dance hall , it was over the top of the billiard hall right to the private houses next to them , it was quite a I was sixteen , seventeen in that er dance hall at the time .
14 It was over the Citation 's flying range , and Duncan flight-planned the first leg to Kirov where he would refuel .
15 Although the little hut at Trebyan was only a couple of hundred yards from the house and the pottery it was over the slope of the hill and hemmed in by gorse and hawthorn : a single large room with a verandah , built of lap boarding , raised on a brick base and set in the side of the hill .
16 But it was over the husband of her closest friend that she grieved most deeply .
17 After it was over the poet W.B. Yeats began to reflect on the significance of the rebellion and the subsequent executions .
18 I mean lunch time we were hearing how , because they stood up for what was right , it was over the killing of soldiers and that , this man job and actually he more or less said that he was something wrong with his head did n't he ?
19 When it was over the doctor there said , ‘ We 've found four polyps in your colon , and I 'm happy to tell you that none are cancerous . ’
20 Fitzormonde intervened ‘ It was over the Moor that the bad blood first surfaced between Burghgesh and Whitton . ’
21 In one minute it was over the target area .
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