Sentence examples for were destroyed over from inspiring English sources

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Today, the arena has reverted to its initial appearance because the inner structures were destroyed over the centuries.

For all the reconstruction efforts in the last 12 months, not a single house has been rebuilt with international assistance here in the capital, where a staggering 78,000 houses were destroyed over the years of fighting.

In all, 1,500 homes were destroyed over a two-week period, testimony not only to the persistence of the conflagration but also to the amount of new construction since the last firestorm, in 1993.

In a letter documenting Mr. Flynn's charges, written by his lawyer, Gary J. Aguirre, he maintains that at least 9,000 case files were destroyed over the last two decades.

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 18 — Villagers danced in the streets and threw rice on Friday as the Lebanese Army's soldiers reached the southern border with Israel for the first time in decades, and Hezbollah volunteers handed out grants of $12,000 — in stacks of American dollars — as part of its vigorous campaign to help families whose houses were destroyed over the past month.

It was of course Kristallnacht, when part of a nation were told that all their problems were caused by a minority group and stood by or joined in while Jewish homes, schools and hospitals were destroyed, over 1,000 synagogues were burned, 30,000 people put into concentration camps and many massacred that night alone.

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I once sat through an all-night movie feature in a downtown LA theater and watched five movies in a row where Los Angeles was destroyed over and over again.

I bet you he's destroyed over this".

More than £90 million of Burberry products have been destroyed over the past five years.

Residents said as many as eight buildings had been destroyed over two weeks.

It added that it "cannot say with certainty that no such documents have been destroyed over the past seventeen years".

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