Example sentences of "[noun] of [n mass] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er w which in turn is is intended to minimize the loss of staff over the next two years . |
| 2 | He had been asked to make savings of £440,000 over the next three years but says , without more money , police vacancies will be frozen and jobs will be lost . |
| 3 | The budget totalled $T40,000,000 , a rise of $T2,700,000 over the previous year . |
| 4 | There has been a vast impoverishment of people over the past decades . |
| 5 | Because of the migration of mackerel over the notional dividing line between eastern and western zones , British fishermen had been faced with dwindling numbers of a healthy species . |
| 6 | Thus change in household and housing circumstances of people over the 1970s will be analysed by their characteristics at the earlier census to establish which factors are important in this process . |
| 7 | Continental units lost $14m on sales of $140m over the last nine months . |
| 8 | Economic growth , at an annual average of 4% over the past five years , is not bad in the circumstances , though not as spectacular as the South-East Asian growth rates that Sri Lanka aspires to emulate . |
| 9 | The concession will save contributor areas a total of £685m over the three years . |
| 10 | Investing instead in a similarly-sized firm that was already traded in the market generated , on average , a profit of 30% over the same period . |
| 11 | Revenue from sales of personal computer X server packages rose to $33m , a growth of 217% over the 1991 figure . |
| 12 | One of the latest to succeed in that direction are Harlequins with the announcement of help to the tune of £350,000 over the next four seasons from Flowering Original , an offshoot of the Whitbread beer company , which already sponsors the Welsh Heineken Leagues . |
| 13 | The hourly rate for doctors called on occasionally was set at £93 , an increase of 12% over the old fee . |
| 14 | As an alternative to the cash dividend the Board is proposing that an enhanced scrip dividend is offered to shareholders whereby they may elect to receive new ordinary shares with a value of 10.65 pence per share , an increase of 50% over the proposed final cash dividend . |
| 15 | Although tax consultancy fee income rose by 3% to £105m , this compares with a total increase of 134% over the previous three years . |
| 16 | The 25th FAO conference in Rome in November 1989 adopted a regular budget of US$569,000,000 for 1990/91 , an increase of $77,000,000 over the previous biennium [ see p. 36957 ] . |
| 17 | The Wallace Collection attracted a record 198,225 visitors in 1992 , an increase of 41% over the previous year |
| 18 | It already pays all claims of more than £220 in Northern Ireland — at a cost of £680m over the past 23 years . |
| 19 | Consumer belief in " safer " bottled water has led to the quadrupling of sales over the last ten years . |
| 20 | At a price of 94p for the convertible pref , the equivalent ordinary price on conversion is 884p , a premium of 57% over the present ordinary share price of 564p . |
| 21 | This was the highest rating of all the publishers listed in Table 5 and represented a premium of 74% over the average market price/earnings ratio of 17.7x . |
| 22 | A shortage of zinc caused by supply disruptions and , some say , manipulation of the market forced the cash price of zinc to more than $1,400 a tonne , and to a premium of $240 over the forward price on the London Metal Exchange last week . |
| 23 | It is paid free of tax up to a maximum of £8000 over the full period of the allowance ( see Appendix 1 ) . |
| 24 | Deposits can be made by regular savings or by lump sum deposits subject to a maximum of £9,000 over the five year period but you may not deposit more than £3,000 in the first year or £1,800 in any succeeding year . |
| 25 | The manufacturer reckons that the deal will be worth in the region of £100m over the next few years as Cambridge-based Ionica rolls out its UK network . |