Example sentences of "[num] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The State of World Population 1992 report , released on April 29 by the United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA ) , projected an annual increase in the world 's population of about 97,000,000 over the next ten years . |
| 2 | In this sense , there is a direct parallel to the debate in Chapter 2 over the uneven impact of deindustrialization . |
| 3 | Talks broke down on April 22 over the allocation of government posts , although on April 11 it had appeared that a coalition could be formed when all parties agreed that the budget deficit should not exceed 5 per cent gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 4 | I can only get forty over the river before the ships come , and they wo n't have horses . ’ |
| 5 | that 's right , and he gets some unemployment money and I take ten pounds a week off him , for his food , I mean , it 's not enough but it 'll do , you know and then in dribs and drabs begrudgingly from that forty over the week once he starts to run out of money cos he 's paid once a fortnight I begin to give him his karate money and here 's two pounds fifty to go to the pub with Neil , you know , little bits |
| 6 | Debtor days have been reduced from more than 40 to less than 30 over the past two months . |
| 7 | On Feb. 26 , 1991 , the Anglo-Dutch food and cleaning products company , Unilever , announced that it would be cutting 5,500 jobs from a total workforce of 110,000 over the next three years . |
| 8 | A few years ago , some photographers began rephotographing the western vistas taken by Jackson and other pioneers who lugged their eight by tens over the mountain ranges 100 years ago . |
| 9 | However , the key quarterly average has dropped and is down to 33,700 over the three months to March . |
| 10 | Ernst and Young has cut its annual graduate recruitment by 110 to 540 over the last two years but generally the big firms , some with workforces of over 7,000 , have been slow to react to the downturn . |
| 11 | Peter Monteith 's gallant campaigner ran unplaced on the Flat at Ayr just 48 hours previously but , though still to score on the level , he has now amassed four hurdle wins in addition to 12 over the bigger obstacles . |
| 12 | The bottom 10 over the same period were , in descending order : Save & Prosper Scotyields ; Henderson High Income ; Scottish Mutual Managed Income ; Fleming European Fledgling ; Save & Prosper High Return ; Prosperity Income & Growth ; Britannia Life Income Growth ; Fidelity Income Plus ; Guardian Royal Exchange Income ; and Scottish National Capital shares . |
| 13 | got a very low test statistic either in terms of kie or F right so we have n't reached but the model is still a poor model because we do n't have erm er stable parameters , right , so you would actually reject this model as it stands , alright , because it did n't pass the diagnostic test statistics but there is no point generating parameters w if they , if they are not constant and you 're gon na say elastic demand is one point four six or really it it 's ranged between minus three plus , plus six over the sample , so you put estimate means so it must have constant parameters . |
| 14 | In March 1966 Labour was returned with a massively increased majority : 100 over the Conservatives , 97 overall . |
| 15 | Those of you who have acquired shares through the profit sharing scheme will note with pleasure that Rentokil shares have performed the best of all the FTSE 100 over the past five year period , with an almost fourfold increase since 1987 . |
| 16 | Thomas Cook 's UK travel agency network had its best year ever last year and plans are under way to increase the current branch network of 340 by at least another 100 over the next two years . |
| 17 | And then there are two further posts , two five's over the next twelve months . |
| 18 | Despite congressional opposition , legislation had been proposed to merge the Manila-based Philippine Constabulary with the Integrated National Police to form a constitutionally mandated Philippine National Police force with an eventual strength of 120,000 members — an increase of nearly 30,000 over the current combined staff of the two forces . |
| 19 | Despite having an army of 285,000 ( to be cut to 250,000 over the next three years ) , France would have been hard-pressed to do more . |
| 20 | Omron sold 6,000 Lunas in 1992 and expects to sell 3,000 Luna 2001s over the next twelve months . |
| 21 | Omron sold 6,000 Lunas in 1992 and expects to sell 3,000 Luna 2001s over the next 12 months . |
| 22 | I have probably waded through hundreds over the years . |
| 23 | Despite the viral epidemic which killed hundreds over the past two years , the Greenpeace scientists counted nearly 2,500 during a five week tour , suggesting that , despite fears to the contrary , there is still a sustainable population in the region . |
| 24 | At the time the name seemed just too obviously a snipe at rdbms rival Oracle Corp , which began rolling out its delayed Release 7 over the course of 1992 : Sybase 's current release name is 4.9 , and there seemed no logical reason to start calling anything out of the fast-growing system software supplier 's warehouses ‘ System 10 . ’ |
| 25 | At the time the name seemed just too obviously a snipe at relational database rival Oracle Corp , which began rolling out its delayed Release 7 over the course of 1992 : Sybase 's current release name is 4.9 , and there seemed no logical reason to start calling anything out of the fast-growing system software supplier 's warehouses ‘ System 10 ’ . |
| 26 | Another referendum was to be held on June 7 over the new constitution . |
| 27 | According to the Suda , Simonides of Magnesia sang of a victory by Antiochus III over the Gauls , about which we know nothing — unless it is to be identified with the episode to which II Maccabees refers as a success by eight thousand Babylonian Jews and four thousand Macedonians against Galatian raiders ( 8.20 ) . |
| 28 | Education Secretary John Patten says the Government wants to boost the number of students in further education by 222,000 over the next three years . |
| 29 | 7/JG 26 and elements of III/JG 27 escorted four He111s of II/KG 26 over the island at midday , this formation being intercepted by ‘ C ’ Flight Hurricane IIs from Hal Far . |
| 30 | A general strike was organized in Asturian mines on Dec. 26 over the issue of safety . |