Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in the New Year the organisation was moving from the Dickensian building in the city centre which it had inhabited for over fifty years to a new purpose-built high-rise office block south of the river , an area not long cleared of old slum dwellings and deratinised . |
| 2 | Total duration of oral contraceptive use was unimportant , but a very low rate of endometriosis was found among women currently or recently taking the pill compared with women who had never taken it or had stopped for over 12 months . |
| 3 | Growth in GNP was expected to slow to 2.2 per cent in 1991 and , although inflation might continue to decline , unemployment ( which had fallen from over 17 per cent in 1985-87 to 14 per cent in 1990 ) was expected to remain above the European average . |
| 4 | Paul Raynor , Conservative candidate for Middlesbrough , said South Tees acute hospitals were providing 30pc more treatments than ten years ago , whilst waiting lists had fallen from over 6,000 to approximately 4,000 in the same period . |
| 5 | Union membership had fallen from over 13 million in 1980 to below 10 million three years later . |
| 6 | Just as he had done on over 100 occasions during the previous three years , the seller sold some animal food to the buyer . |
| 7 | In 1957 there were just 140 lifers in prison ; thirty years later , in 1987 the number had grown to over 2,200 , of whom about one in five had received their life sentence for an offence other than murder . |
| 8 | By December , British casualties on the Somme had risen to over 400,000 . |
| 9 | The state had persisted for over three days now . |
| 10 | In the process of satisfying the demands of the flood of participants , the inquiry 's photocopiers had dealt with over fifteen million sheets of paper , enough to demolish a forest of 1,000 trees . |
| 11 | Fighting between the two rival Shia militias , the Syrian-backed Amal and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah , raged throughout West Beirut and the western Bekaa valley during December 1989 and had led to over 100 deaths by early January 1990 [ see p. 37137 ] . |
| 12 | By 1780 the number of British houses had increased to over seventy . |
| 13 | Thus wrote Fuller in a paper published after his death , on which he had worked for over 20 years . |
| 14 | The Independent of Aug. 7 , for instance , claimed that fighting between Iraqi forces and the Kuwait Maghaweer brigade at Al Jahra barracks on Aug. 2 had resulted in over 1,000 deaths . |
| 15 | This system of healing was discovered by Edward Bach , a doctor who had practised for over 20 years in London as a consultant , bacteriologist and homoeopath . |
| 16 | He had his ships and politics , she had her piano which she had practised for over twenty years , so now let the dream come true . |
| 17 | The bulk of his estate went to his common-law wife , Sarah Dovekin or Dufkin , a former servant of Mrs Manley , with whom he had lived for over twenty years . |
| 18 | The canals of 1900 had existed for over 100 years and during this time had changed but little . |
| 19 | He had waited for over ten minutes and decided that he would give his friend another five minutes before making off home . |
| 20 | In these circumstances the conditions for unquestioned support for the statutory town planning system , which had lasted for over 30 years , were now considered debatable . |
| 21 | By 1972 , that figure had doubled to over 120,000 offences and since then there has been a steady increase . |