Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burgon and Ball have been making shears in Sheffield for over 200 . |
| 2 | I have known Mrs Taylor for over three years . |
| 3 | The suspension of Mrs Kemp for over a year with no reasons being given by the local authority , caused grave misgivings in Orkney . |
| 4 | Ralph was associated with Gloucester by 1477 , possibly after an earlier flirtation with Northumberland , and his arrival in the duke 's service marks the end of a feud which had split the Nevilles for over forty years . |
| 5 | Ralph was associated with Gloucester by 1477 , possibly after an earlier flirtation with Northumberland , and his arrival in the duke 's service marks the end of a feud which had split the Nevilles for over forty years . |
| 6 | She has been an ally of Portugal for over 600 years . |
| 7 | The ex-250 world champion ( 1969 with Benelli ) had been with Yamaha for over 20 years but after the collapse of Giacomo Agostini 's 500 team , Carruthers found himself out of the heat of competition . |
| 8 | It was powerful enough to swallow the heavy might of a world superpower , and to affect that country so greatly , that it dominated the politics in the States for over ten years and massive pressure was put on the government by the US people . |
| 9 | Our first difference arose over the Biafran War , which began in July 1967 and in which , by the time it ended some three years later , there had been a civilian death toll alone in Biafra of over two million people . |
| 10 | Wang Ruowang , a prominent writer and dissident , was unexpectedly released on Oct. 29 after being held in detention in Shanghai for over a year . |
| 11 | I picked some black carbon fibre frames which had been signed by an Italian designer , made in Japan and retailed in England for over a hundred quid . |
| 12 | Well the first thing is that the City Council is charged with the defence of common land that and Port Meadow is a piece of common land that 's been in the possession of the people of Oxford and Oxfordshire and of England for over a thousand years . |
| 13 | Rennie McOwan has been hillwalking in Scotland for over 30 years and is the author of nine books on the outdoors |
| 14 | Rennie McOwan has been hillwalking in Scotland for over 30 years and is the author of nine books on the outdoors |
| 15 | Rennie McOwan has been hillwalking in Scotland for over 30 years and is the author of nine books on the outdoors |
| 16 | Rennie McOwan has been hillwalking in Scotland for over 30 years and is the author of nine books on the outdoors |
| 17 | A sample by OPCS of over 1000 couples divorced in 1979 showed that about one-third of both divorced husbands and divorced wives had remarried within two and a half years ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |
| 18 | From temperatures during the day in Darwin of over 100 degrees , it was minus three when they arrived in Tasmania . |
| 19 | His own club 's show — the next is due on 29 August in Dalkeith — is third largest in Scotland with over 900 birds on display . |
| 20 | Some leading Presbyterian Churchmen feel the Church 's status as the second largest religious denomination in Northern Ireland with over 336,000 ledged by programme makers and editors of newspapers . |
| 21 | That would account for the eight per cent swing from Labour to the Conservatives , which boosted Alan Stewart 's majority in Eastwood to over 11,000 . |
| 22 | This caused the austral to deteriorate still further as dollars were purchased , trading in February at over $1.00=4,000 australs and falling on Feb. 25 to a record low of $1.00=5,600 australs . |
| 23 | A 10-point council case included the fact that Bangor 's current library membership exceeds both Newtownards and Lisburn by over 30,000 , with over 100,000 more new issues in 1991–2 than Lisburn and over double that of Newtownards . |
| 24 | Bouchard , a close ally of Mulroney for over 30 years , also resigned from the ruling Progressive Conservative Party ( PCP ) in order to sit as an independent . |
| 25 | Finally , Mr Dicketts did not receive a response from the JMU for over five months . |
| 26 | I have lived in Grey Street for over 30 years and we have never had a bus service in all that time , so when it was introduced last year everyone was delighted . |
| 27 | Bert Green 's the name ; a waterman on the Thames for over 40 years . |
| 28 | Joshua , who had been in the Commons for over twenty years , knew only too well that there had never been a woman in the Conservative Whips ' Office . |
| 29 | A member of the WRVS for over 30 years , previously working on a hospital tea bar in Woolwich , she became involved with the court operation when she and her husband first moved to Hampshire . |
| 30 | Most of Lewis and Harris and the uplands of South Uist have a very low Potential Water Deficit , as precipitation equals or even exceeds evapo-transpiration in all months of the year , and the uplands of southern Lewis , Harris and South Uist are so moist that even in summer ( April-September ) there is a PWS of over 500 mm . |