Example sentences of "over the [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Francis Tidbury received a certain amount of sympathy over the following few days , but the public were so outraged at the brutality involved , it carried little weight . |
2 | To someone accustomed by the existing advanced accounting courses , with no involvement in the National Certificate , the proposals seemed somewhat revolutionary and the document generated a good deal of discussion over the following few weeks on the relative merits of the B1 and B2 models etc . |
3 | I remembered , however , that my father had told me of this sort of thing happening in the past , and the sands had always returned over the following few weeks and months . |
4 | Two more recent developments have been home blood glucose monitoring and the glycosylated haemoglobin ( HbA 1 ) or fructosamine — indicators of the integrated blood glucose level over the preceding few weeks . |
5 | Her next door neighbour , a Mrs. Ellen Greaves , gave evidence that she had constantly challenged Esther Dyson in sign language ( which she had learnt through daily contact with the deaf brother and sister ) over the preceding few months about her being in the family way . |
6 | Over the preceding half century , new kinds of bourgeois song , for theatre and home , emerge ; new kinds of social dance develop ; there is an explosion in urban street song , often using new kinds of tune ; the commercialization of traditional ( especially Scots and Irish ) song begins ; new kinds of song from industrialized working-class areas are produced ; new kinds of public house entertainments evolve ; organized mass choral singing and wind band movements begin . |
7 | Rogers had flown over the Front many times , and he thought of it as two huge armies entrenched against each other , launching and repelling attacks massively and obviously ; but now , he supposed , the fog must have dissolved the armies into isolated soldiers , each fighting his own tiny battle , with no way of knowing whether his side was winning or losing . |
8 | Watanabe 's initiative proposed that Shikoton and the four islets collectively known as Habomai , be returned immediately , and that temporary Japanese administrative rights be granted over the two more populous islands — Etorofu and Kunashiri — prior to their being handed back . |
9 | After that coat of paint has dried , a clear flat coat will be applied over the first that will produce a matt surface which will not fingerprint or stain . |
10 | Some Age Concern groups , social services departments and other organisations run a variety of hospital discharge schemes which can help people over the first few days or weeks after a stay in hospital . |
11 | I shall want a good start and be up there over the first few fences . |
12 | I wanted to just pop away over the first few for him to get his confidence . |
13 | The government estimated that nearly one in three businesses would pay rate increases of more than 50 per cent over the first few years , with some paying more than double their previous bill . |
14 | They find that pH declined from about 7.0 to 5.5 over the first few thousand years following deglaciation , owing to natural processes . |
15 | Again she went over the first few days of their itinerary in her mind . |
16 | Then came embarrassing memories of adolescent elbow lounging over the self same barrier . |
17 | Suck all the air out from under the plastic so it is forced down over the wooden former . |
18 | Power over people : the sacerdotal few over the compliant many . |
19 | Since new SVQs are being accredited almost on a monthly basis , SCOTVEC is introducing ‘ SVQ Accreditation Update ’ which will list all accredited SVQs and those expected to be approved over the ensuing few months . |
20 | Although there has probably been a long-term decline in serious violence in Europe over the past several centuries , the relationship of this trend to patterns of theft and other property crime , or to broad forces of social change , remains obscure . |
21 | These are now due to occur in 1991 , having been postponed on several occasions over the past few years . |
22 | I am writing in reply to all the letters you have printed over the past few months about Steffi Graf . |
23 | We have reviewed our corporate design over the past few months and as from November we will be presenting a new design for this newsletter series . |
24 | These numbers have increased considerably over the past few years , partly because income support is available to help cover the fees of residential and nursing home care , and money to pay for care at home is not easily available . |
25 | The result was an emphatic seven-try victory over a courageous side who , over the past few months in their own colours and in their other incarnation as the Canadian national team , have overwhelmed Japan and the United States and been pipped by Wales and Ireland ( minus their Lions ) after surrendering leads late on . |
26 | Over the past few years the bourgeoisie has taken probably £10bn of completely untaxed , totally unearned capital profit from selling their houses . |
27 | What is amazing , therefore , is that the agency that has the responsibility for this programme — Milton Keynes Development Corporation — has been largely wound down over the past few years and the remainder of it will cease to exist in 1992 . |
28 | ‘ We received enough indications over the past few days that he could have gone through with it , ’ a senior spokesman said . |
29 | I write that the paradox is apparent because there have been signs of the same phenomenon in England over the past few seasons — and also because it is not at all surprising when you come to think about it . |
30 | OVER THE past few years Britain and her European allies have been trying to adapt a system designed to catch Warsaw Pact spies to the task of hunting international terrorists . |