Example sentences of "[num] [prep] over [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | sales will increase 6.5% in 1993 to over $18bn . |
| 2 | Indeed the Baron himself has almost given up buying ( a recent exception was Constable 's ‘ The Lock ’ , which he acquired at Sotheby 's in 1991 for over £10 million ) , as works of sufficient importance appear so rarely on the market and cost so much when they do . |
| 3 | From mid-June to mid-September this blast lasts for two to six hours , blowing force 4 to force 7 for over 60% of the afternoons and that includes the odd period when it 's flat for 4 to 6 days . |
| 4 | The most widely used plastic additives , in volume terms , are plasticisers and consumption in this sector is expected to increase from 984000 t in 1991 to over 1m t by 1996 . |
| 5 | The company 's shares had reached a peak in the market in 1984 at over 350p but had fallen quite sharply after this . |
| 6 | US revenues for this kind of software is projected to increase from $226m in 1992 to over $2.5b in 1996 . |
| 7 | The choice of time for instigating the policy would be important here ; the cost of mortgage tax relief in 1988 has increased in annual terms from £5 billion to over £6.5 billion . |
| 8 | President Marcos increased the Philippine national debt from $2.7 billion to over $28 billion between 1972 and 1986 — slipping around $15 billion of it into his own bottomless purse5 . |
| 9 | For example , the share of foreign securities in the portfolios of Japanese life assurance companies rose from 2.7% in 1980 to over 13% by the end of 1987 . |
| 10 | In 1954 he bought , with Lionel Barber , 75 per cent of Holder 's Investment Trust , to which he sold his interests between 1955 and 1961 for over £5 million . |
| 11 | The sum raised was just over £1,038 and brought the total for the Railway Hotel since 1982 to over £5,000 . |
| 12 | The Japanese surplus fell to below $50,000 million in the second half of 1989 from over $80,000 million a year earlier , and the West German surplus in the second half of 1989 was also slightly below its record level in the first half of the year . |
| 13 | The star performer , as for several years past , was polypropylene , which jumped from under 3.1m tonnes in 1989 to over 3.3m tonnes last year . |
| 14 | Chevaline in all had risen in cost from £350 m. in 1974 to over £1 billion by 1982 , on top of the Polaris missile programme-even though by this time US-Soviet arms limitation agreements had made Chevaline redundant . |
| 15 | A significant rise in gas demand is planned by 1990 with gas 's share of total energy consumption rising from 16% in 1983 to over 20% by 1990 . |
| 16 | Pre-tax profits more than quadrupled from £5 million to over £20 million from 1984 — 5 to 1987 — 8 . |
| 17 | Edinburgh Zoo , for 1 site , had a budget in 1990 of over £65,000 per year for advertising , including highly effective bus campaigns . |