Example sentences of "to [adj] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government 's health record provoked one of the largest backbench rebellions during the last session of Parliament , with the Government 's majority cut to eight over eye charges . |
| 2 | For example , between 1980 and 1990 the average advance to income ratio for first-time buyers rose from 1.67 to 2.19 , while the average percentage advance to first-time buyers rose from 73.8 to 82.5 over the same period . |
| 3 | In other words , one legacy of the regime of Councillor Pickles and his colleagues has been a city where the Conservatives have managed to stem the tide to Labour over the past decade . |
| 4 | And of course the harness was what they call a harness , you know your buckles used to that over that and they were on . |
| 5 | And what about the American safety record , is is it very different to that over here ? |
| 6 | But it cautioned that this did not constitute an ozone " hole " , similar to that over Antarctica , as had been widely reported . |
| 7 | Now fraction of total fraction of total So this is going to come to fifty over one fifty . |
| 8 | However , the key quarterly average has dropped and is down to 33,700 over the three months to March . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | According to a study by Italy 's joint chiefs of staff , a manpower shortage may lead to the army being cut by up to half over the next 20 years . |
| 11 | The government meets three quarters of the costs of section eleven projects , but that 's being cut to half over the next two years . |
| 12 | Our system of construction has been used for many years all over this country , by the sponsoring authorities and others , and erm we do n't have the earthquake requirements , but we do need many high value schools both quickly and on time , and we 've completed something like 2,000 projects similar to this over many years . |
| 13 | One reason why these categories have proved of little practical value is that particular individuals may shift from one to another over the course of time , a fact which also illustrates an additional distinction that has to be made in describing schizophrenia . |
| 14 | Virginia Woolf defined it inimitably when she wrote that ‘ for pages at a time he writes that terse springy prose which is the natural speech of a school of writers trained to the business of moving a large company briskly from one incident to another over the solid earth ’ . |
| 15 | If it seems surprising that the same forms of rioting should recur from one place to another over lapses of time , it should be remembered that food rioting was neither an isolated nor a continuous form of popular action . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There were reports from Carole Fuller on the number of congregants which had increased from 128 to 141 over the past ten months , and on the musical life of the church . |
| 19 | The business of environmental consultancy has evolved rapidly over the past decade , with the number of UK firms involved jumping from 100 to 225 over the past couple of years alone . |
| 20 | That was better than the OECD ( Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ) European average of 106 falling to 89 over the same period . |
| 21 | On Sept. 19 a vote was split 89 to 89 over whether communist deputies were to be allowed to attend . |
| 22 | The best thing to do with that are you you 're more used to erm You 're more used to opposite over adjacent and things like that are n't you . |
| 23 | Equity ‘ bargain' averages have also increased from 7,280 to 36,148 over the same period . |
| 24 | This compares with structure plan estimates of need totalling 231,000 to 233,000 over the five-year period . |
| 25 | Our figures also support this view , the male to female ratio falling from 1.17 to 1.12 over the age of 60 years . |
| 26 | I mean the Welsh population in percentage terms is now rising more rapidly than that of England and therefore by the year two thousand and one when the next review would take place er we er will certainly fully occupy if you like , that fifth seat in terms of the average size because Welsh Euro constituencies were during the past ten years , very slightly larger on average than those in England and so er we are moving from under representation to slight over representation for a temporary period er simply because er you know Wales is regarded as indivisible for this purpose and that 's why we welcomed this debate . |
| 27 | Unemployment had risen from 80,000 to 400,000 over the previous 12 months and was expected to exceed 500,000 by the end of 1992 . |
| 28 | The number of people seeking refugee status has risen from 5,000 a year to 45,000 over the past four years . |
| 29 | Initially , the company will create 200 new jobs , rising to 520 over the next few years . |
| 30 | One of my more unlikely activities was to preside from 1973 to 1977 over the Housing Corporation , and alongside it ( a body which bore no direct relationship ) the National Building Agency . |