Example sentences of "to over [num] [unc] [unc] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Spain , unemployment rose from 2.1 per cent in 1972 to over 17 per cent in 1982 . |
| 2 | As a result , in the sixty years from 1851 the proportion of old people living in institutions almost doubled , rising to over 7 per cent of men over 65 and nearly 10 per cent of those over 75 , and slightly over half this figure for women . |
| 3 | It may appear surprising that three parts in the valve have been found to have no function at all and that they amount to over 5 per cent of the total cost . |
| 4 | It may appear surprising that three parts in the valve have been found to have no function at all and that they amount to over 5 per cent of the total cost . |
| 5 | Although the currency was strong ( despite a revaluation in 1969 ) and the budget in surplus , wage demands were also high and inflation rose from 2 per cent in 1969 to over 5 per cent in 1972 . |
| 6 | Taking data on all full-time manual workers , figure 10.2 shows that the ratio of women 's hourly pay to men 's suddenly rose in the mid-1970s from the level it seems to have previously held over recorded history , 60 per cent , to over 70 per cent in 1977 , a level more or less maintained subsequently . |
| 7 | By contrast , West Bromwich , Manchester , London and Liverpool all sustained losses amounting to over 10 per cent of their work force . |
| 8 | The two most conspicuous features are the large holdings of UK securities , amounting to over 40 per cent of total assets and to about 60 per cent when combined with overseas securities . |
| 9 | Today it has risen to over 40 per cent in Britain , Scandinavia , and North America , and 30 per cent in France , in contrast to less than 7 per cent in China and Japan . |
| 10 | At present , only 7 per cent by volume of freight goes by rail ( compared to over 40 per cent in the 1950s ) . |
| 11 | This was in spite of the fact that the Glass Glover acquisition and last week 's £48.8 million purchase of Clifford Foods would help push gearing to over 60 per cent by the year end in March . |
| 12 | In the early years this had always been kept small , but in the 1980s the Treasury increased it from the traditional 2 per cent of planned public spending in the 1976–9 period to over 6 per cent in 1990–1 . |
| 13 | This growth and industrial expansion of Belfast , and a corresponding famine in the south , facilitated a dramatic rise in the city 's Catholic population ( from 6 per cent in 1800 to over 30 per cent in 1861 ) . |
| 14 | These imports reached on average over 10 million koku a year in the late 1920s , equivalent to over 15 per cent of annual domestic production . |
| 15 | Their numbers have grown by more than a third since 1979 , while the number of self-employed people has grown to over 12 per cent of the workforce . |
| 16 | A recent study by the North London Polytechnic shows that about 27 per cent of men have been victims of some unwanted sexual contact before they are 18 , compared to over 50 per cent for women . |
| 17 | For example , the Hospice des Enfants-Trouvés in Paris , founded 1670 , was admitting several thousand babies a year by the 1770s , equivalent to over 20 per cent of the yearly baptisms in Paris , although almost half came from outside the city , and 13 per cent into the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | The 12.9 per cent illiteracy rate in 1981 was admitted to have risen to over 20 per cent by the late 1980s . |
| 19 | Corby ( Northants ) , for example , received a zone after the closure of the British Steel plant , and an associated rise to over 25 per cent in male unemployment . |
| 20 | The four acute hospitals studied also varied in the extent to which they were dependent on business from their own district , from 20 per cent in a teaching hospital which had a large range of supraregional specialities and dealt with over 120 districts , to over 90 per cent in a rural district general hospital . |