Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 2 | Thus in 1786 , on the death of Sir Horace Mann , the British envoy to the grand duke of Tuscany , the post was filled for over six months by his nephew , who had no recognised diplomatic status at all . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Ostrogothic era ; Ravenna was taken by Theodoric in 493 and he ruled for over 30 years . |
| 5 | It had been raining for over three hours , and the hide Duncan lay in was filled with water . |
| 6 | The Company 's Pest Control service covering Norfolk and Suffolk has moved from Norwich where it operated for over 30 years . |
| 7 | Details were traced for over 30000 workers involved in the construction of the large oil terminals in the Shetland and Orkney islands in northern Scotland or employed offshore . |
| 8 | Most of the sample group ( 82 per cent ) had been using for over two years before they first sought treatment . |
| 9 | Another concern we have is that special employment and training measures , ( now catering for over 31,000 people in the North ) , have become a substitute for jobs — a way of reducing the official unemployment statistics and complementing the massive statistical fraud which those figures now represent . |
| 10 | By 1980–1 , the number of CNAA first degree courses in art and design had grown to 196 , catering for over 15,350 students , of whom the great majority were to be found in the four Dip.AD specialist areas of Fine Art , Graphic Design , Three Dimensional Design and Textile and Fashion Design . |
| 11 | In 1973 there were 21 sixth form colleges in England ; by 1988 there were 104 , catering for over 64,000 pupils . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As from 3 May the premium for lots sold for over £30,000 will be raised to 15% while those making less than that figure will still be charged at 10% . |
| 14 | Those aware that in May 1989 Sotheby 's New York sold for $67 million a small group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings inherited and collected by Ortiz-Patiño and once displayed in his house in Switzerland ( notable among the eight paintings offered at the time was Gauguin 's ‘ Mata Mua ’ , a Tahitian composition that sold for over $24 million to its former co-owner , Baron Thyssen , having been jointly purchased by Ortiz-Patiño and Thyssen only five years before at Sotheby 's New York for $3.85 million ) , may ask themselves how will Jaime Ortiz-Patiño furnish and decorate his London flat ? |
| 15 | Notably Kent , whose player costs soared by 27 per cent between 1990 and 1991 and account for over 40 per cent of its total costs , have been forced to cut to 20 . |
| 16 | The police account for over a third of these specific grants . |
| 17 | They account for over a third of the western world 's output of mechanical engineering products and should , says the bulletin , maintain this position . |
| 18 | Together these two industries account for over 90 per cent of the exports generated . |
| 19 | Social services costs account for over 70 per cent of the amount spent in the public sector . |
| 20 | Our results confirm the constant prevalence of phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine , which together account for over 60% of all phospholipis identified in human gastric mucosa . |
| 21 | Advances are the major profit-earning asset for the banks and account for over 60 per cent of their sterling assets . |
| 22 | Investment accounts have offered competitive rates in the late 1980 's and now account for over 22 per cent of the total assets portfolio . |
| 23 | Nowadays , imports account for over 20 per cent of the UK carpet market and this percentage is increasing . |
| 24 | In a survey of more than 200 port operators ( which collectively account for over 70 per cent of all UK traffic movement ) 59 per cent of respondents reported an increase in competition since July 1989 ( 1 ) . |
| 25 | The most certain of these is that employment in the primary sector has fallen for over 100 years , and continues to fall by around 2 to 3 per cent a year . |
| 26 | A powerful figure in Ragusa was the Benedictine friar Mavro Vetranović , who was born in 1482 and who lived for over eighty years . |
| 27 | Sometime before Jacques married he had moved from the rue Dauphine St Andre des Arts , where he had lived from about 1714 , to the rue de Seine , in the parish of St Sulpice , where he had a large five-storey house in which he lived for over 40 years until his death in 1763 . |
| 28 | Cheshire is actually sold when it is one to two months old , but it can be matured for over a year . |
| 29 | Poles from the other areas of partitioned Poland rose up and fought for over eight months in support of his efforts to halt the dismemberment of the Polish state . |
| 30 | After moving to England , he fought for over two years without being defeated and reckoned : ‘ Ninety per cent of the public wanted to see me win the British title . |