Example sentences of "over [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four men have presided over the Fifth Republic created in 1958 : its founder , Charles de Gaulle ( born 1890 , President 1958 — 69 ) ; Georges Pompidou ( 1911 ; 1969–74 ) ; Valery Giscard d'Estaing ( 1926 ; 1974–8 1 ) ; Francois Mitterrand ( 1916 ; 1981- ) . |
| 2 | William Smith , the veteran Unitarian associate of Wilberforce , in particular introduced a tone of some urgency over the nineteenth century 's need to make ‘ quicker progress in the annihilation of slavery ’ . |
| 3 | Only lack of experience deprived Wapnick , based in Switzerland and ranked No 103 in the world , of victory over the ninth seed , Rodney Eyles , in a thrilling match lasting 74 minutes . |
| 4 | Whilst the form and degree of criticism has changed over the twentieth century , in essence it has remained the same , with similar international contrasts being drawn . |
| 5 | Table 10.1 summarizes some of the changes in women 's work , or at least its statistical visibility , over the twentieth century . |
| 6 | In addition , the research will assess the way in which the economic expectations of elderly people have changed over the twentieth century . |
| 7 | And they were about to trip over the first foot … |
| 8 | TONY Greener , who took over as chairman of Guinness last year , has presided over the first fall in its annual profits for more than a decade , reflecting the effects of the recession on sales and margins and the high marketing spending necessary to support the group 's premium brands . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't like working from pictures in books , ’ she went on , as her pencil began to skim over the first sheet . |
| 10 | The thickness does not decrease linearly , but follows an exponential curve , with the thickness decreasing much more over the first kilometre than the second , and so on . |
| 11 | During the oral phases , extending over the first year or so of life , his main concerns involve activities like sucking , swallowing and biting ; and the nature of his oral experiences during this period will have considerable repercussions in the long as well as the short term . |
| 12 | Competent teachers try not to convey too many ideas during first lectures but increase the " density " of lectures over the first year . |
| 13 | Over the first year shown , Inner London fared relatively well , with an average overall increase in assessed expenditure needs of 7.2 per cent , and Outer London and the Shire Counties had relatively small increases overall ( 2.6 and 2.7 per cent respectively ) . |
| 14 | Erm the actual percentage of the ingredients used over the first year erm is about five percent for water , twenty three point six percent for the bottle , I 'll explain that later that 's quite high , the cap is four percent , one percent for the gassing , erm one percent for the case , two point seven percent for labour , four percent for transport , a general overhead would be about seventeen point one percent . |
| 15 | Response over the first year to the new look has been ‘ overwhelmingly positive — if the yardstick is a demand for the paper . |
| 16 | Is this a *true* reflection of the quality of football we 've played over the first couple of months … and are we likely to break Cov 's unbeaten run ? |
| 17 | I was fortunate to have been associated with him in this development over the first half of the 1940s . |
| 18 | The hiatus between North and South is most directly shown in terms of trends in employment over the first half of the 1980s . |
| 19 | To repay the banks , Latin American countries exported more and more goods over the first half of the 1980s . |
| 20 | There was no dramatic increase in the total volume of shipping using British ports over the first half of the eighteenth century , but there was a relative shift away from London to provincial ports . |
| 21 | Professor Davis has calculated that over 75 per cent of the growth in English exporting over the first half of the eighteenth century depended on either southern Europe or the Americas . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Over the latter generally slowly improving money wages brought a degree of improvement in real wages because cereal prices were generally low over the first half of the century . |
| 24 | The " good years " of textile out-workers , for example , began before the war but lasted only over the first half of it . |
| 25 | So , she 's very keen , so she 's coming in quite a bit erm , over the first half term and she hopes that 'll continue during the year , not particularly with just the year eight people but maybe get other people to involve themselves as well . |
| 26 | There were always hundreds of students asking their foreign teachers for this ‘ favour ’ to get them over the first hurdle of the going abroad process . |
| 27 | You have n't even got over the first hurdle yet and you 're ready to quit ! |
| 28 | Despite the efforts of hordes of gluttonous ants who dined on much of the grass seed , the first game on the first Spanish cricket ground was played there on Saturday , January 11 and the club hosted the Inter-Island Balearic Championships over the first weekend of May . |
| 29 | The issue erupted again when asbestos spilled in the factory over the first weekend in June and Raybestos management announced it had closed down that section of the factory . |
| 30 | When Gloria had got over the first shock of Saul 's horrifying death , she put the warehouse up for sale , together with the contents of the ship-chandlers shop on the ground floor , confident that she would soon find a purchaser . |