Example sentences of "[vb pp] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Cheshire is actually sold when it is one to two months old , but it can be matured for over a year . |
| 8 | The changing distributions between 1970 and 1980 on this index have been calculated for over 100 countries , with some surprising results . |
| 9 | Although it was begun in the sixteenth-century the building was not actually completed for over a hundred years , the upper floor being added in the seventeenth-century . |
| 10 | Delayed for over four years , Nagisa Oshima 's Max Mon Amour features Charlotte Rampling indulging in extramarital horseplay , or rather between-the-sheets monkey business with her lover Max , a chimp . |
| 11 | Mrs Shaw , 30 , claimed the train , with more than 100 passengers on board , was delayed for over five minutes . |
| 12 | The effect that evening was that it hurt , especially as my supper was delayed for over an hour by blocked jets . |
| 13 | If your travel from the UK for your outward journey or from Holland for the return journey is delayed for over 12 hours ( due to strike/industrial action , weather conditions or mechanical breakdown ) from the scheduled time , then a benefit of £20 for the first 12 hours and £10 for each subsequent 12 hours up to a maximum of £60 . |
| 14 | Libyan politics has been dominated for over two decades by Col. Moamer al Kadhafi who came to power in the military coup of 1969 [ see p. 23569 ] . |
| 15 | And when the château the Princesse had now occupied for over twenty years emerged from amidst snow-clad trees halfway up an escarpment , she felt dizzy with the beauty of it all . |
| 16 | In a separate incident in Glengormley , houses were evacuated for over three hours after a suspect car was abandoned at Willowtree Park shortly after 1am yesterday . |
| 17 | It would have been frozen for over thirty years . |
| 18 | Chub to 4 lb at Ross and matches won with over 20 lb of dace at Symonds Yat . |
| 19 | This study has shown that when phonemes are selectively encoded as broad classes ( the mixed sets ) or entirely encoded as mid-classes , utterances are sometimes parsed into over a million word-strings . |
| 20 | The official estimate of the number who died in the violence that followed was 130 : unofficial estimates varied from over 200 to more than 1,000 . |
| 21 | Levels of government expenditure on education dropped from over 30 per cent of national expenditure and 6 to 7 per cent of GNP in the mid-1970s to 22 per cent and 4 per cent respectively in 1985 . |
| 22 | Coun Bill Dixon , chairman of the Labour-led authority 's housing committee , said the housing programme had been slashed from over £5m last year to just £2.8m . |
| 23 | From 1939 to 1964 , offences quadrupled to over 60,000 known offences . |
| 24 | Even before he became king , Edward sent out some ninety-four letters to religious superiors asking for benefices , pensions and corrodies for his clerks , and in the course of his reign over four hundred and fifty requests for corrodies , addressed to over two hundred houses , have been counted in just the Calendar of Close Rolls ; between 1308 and 1327 Worcester priory received no fewer than fifty-one royal requests on behalf of royal servants . |
| 25 | He declined to discuss the price , which some have pegged at over $1 million . |
| 26 | If SCO lets its MIPS development ride , one reason is certainly Intel 's efforts to pump up the performance — now reported at over 100 MIPS — and accelerate delivery schedules for the P5 . |
| 27 | A STOLEN caravan was stripped of over £2,000 worth of property when it was stored at an East Durham farm , a court heard yesterday . |
| 28 | The uncanny , oppressive atmosphere still hangs over that spot as it has done for over twenty years . |
| 29 | I write as one who has cycled for over 40 years and who rides between 8,000 and 9,000 miles per year ( I am an occasional motorist too ) . |
| 30 | ‘ I have read and thought and practised and observed and written for over a quarter of a century , survived a world war , and still I have not been able to provide a home in which my children may be happy . ’ |