Example sentences of "over and above the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Penson gave David Davies the job of preparing the foundations , embankment and approach road for the iron bridge over the Severn in the ‘ top sawyer 's ’ home town of Llandinam and was so pleased with his work that he recommended payment of an additional £15 over and above the contract price agreed . |
2 | Had the national insurance pensions been increased by an additional £5 a week over and above the inflation rate , and supplementary benefit uprated by the rate of inflation only , then virtually all of the 1.4 million claimants would no longer be entitled to supplementary benefit . |
3 | " Buyers should be made to pay a sustainability premium for the products over and above the market prices , " said Malaysian Primary Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik at a meeting of the International Tropical Timber Organisation . |
4 | The range of key values , divided by the number of addresses to be generated ( the calculation is shown on page 161 ) , will indicate the potential improvement , over and above the synonym percentages predicted by the Poisson distribution , that can be aimed for . |
5 | Mind you , you have to pay for your sound equipment over and above the list price . |
6 | The need to feed over and above the maintenance requirement is linked to the fish 's need to grow and reproduce . |