Example sentences of "[prep] [unc] a [noun sg] over the " in BNC.

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1 So was municipal waste , in spite of growth in GDP per head of 1.8% a year over the period ( chart 1 ) .
2 The site studied by Guo and Bradshaw is a village in Jiangsu province , having an area of 155 hectares ( ha ) and a population of 2,353 inhabitants which has increased by about 0.25% a year over the past 40 years .
3 Even the , what few bits of lorries were on the road , they had a special mask on with er a shield over the top , so that the light was n't visible up above .
4 The financial markets ' measure of inflationary pressure is reflected by the yield on high-coupon , long-dated gilts less the yield on equivalent index linked gilts , which currently indicates that the anticipated long-run core inflation has risen from a rate of 4.43% to 5.56% a year over the life of the 20-year bond .
5 Boeing predicts that revenue passenger miles ( RPMs — the number of passengers carried on each flight multiplied by the distance of the flight ) will continue to grow by 5.4% a year over the next 15 years .
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