Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The projected increase this year is a further 25% over 1991/92 prices , and since the Library 's budget this year is the same as last year , drastic cuts in subscriptions were essential to avoid further damaging our bookfund , which has already been substantially eroded over the last three years . |
| 2 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG has stepped up its relationship with Burlington , Massachusetts-based Xylogics Inc , and is to integrate the firm 's Annex communications servers into its Intel Corp-based MX and MIPS Technologies Inc RISC-based RM300 and RM6000 Unix systems : the deal is worth some $5.25m over three years . |
| 3 | The increase in the number of very old people over 85 is up from 1.03 per cent of the population in 1981 to an estimated 1.9 per cent in 2001 ( Phillipson and Walker , 1986 , p. 5 ) . |
| 4 | At the present time , although certain services , such as those of the family practitioner , are used quite widely by old people over 75 , the personal social services are still relatively little used . |
| 5 | Even though these figures increase quite sharply for old people over 75 , it is still a minority of that population . |
| 6 | Aged residents were suddenly objects of pilgrimage from such far-off places as America , and soon there were few people over sixty who did not have some hastily dusted-down anecdote , remembered , borrowed or adjusted , ready for eager visitors . |
| 7 | Employment Training should be opened up to unemployed people over 50 , irrespective of how long they have been out of work . |
| 8 | Mr Kinnock would be in Downing Street with an overall majority of 28 seats if there were a general election tomorrow , according to a Mori aggregate poll in The Times , which surveyed more than 7,500 people over three months . |
| 9 | This comprises a total drop of about 12 ft over 40 yds . |
| 10 | By 1989–90 the budget was £15.54 million ( 0.53 per cent of the total government expenditure on civil science and technology research and development ) , with an additional £760,000 over two years for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and £5 million pledged to fund the new centre for the prediction of climate change announced by Mrs Thatcher in her UN speech on the environment . |
| 11 | The National Association of Specialisht Anglers member put in a couple of days on the River Swale at Topcliffe in North Yorkshire to take six chub over 4 lb , including specimens of 5 lb 13 oz and 5 lb 12 oz . |
| 12 | But even though the players on the 1990 tour were paid a basic £83,000 over two years , that has gone as well . |
| 13 | Remember , a loss of between 2 and 4 lb per month adds up to a 24–48 lb drop in a year , 48–96 lb over two years . |
| 14 | This stem law insists that , on any committee or board or council , there should be three people over sixty for every ten members . |
| 15 | All such pensions came to be known , in common parlance , as ‘ private pensions ’ , to distinguish them from the state pensions first introduced in 1908 for indigent elderly people over 70 , followed later ( 1925 ) by contributory state retirement and widows ' pension schemes . |
| 16 | Vulnerable old person This term will be used to distinguish the small number of very frail old people from the majority of competent independent elderly people over 65 . |
| 17 | After nine years of working with elderly people over 65 and coming across cases of physical abuse without a definition or context , she carried out a study between 1988 and 1989 . |
| 18 | Likewise Townsend and Wedderburn ( 1965 , Chapter 4 ) , studying elderly people over 65 in Britain in 1962 , found only I 1 per cent of non-married women with occupational benefits — 18 per cent of single women and 9 per cent of widows , the older women being the poorest . |
| 19 | Recession has hit China Town and many people over 50 have lost their jobs . |
| 20 | Its target is 20 Japanese and 30 international sales over three years . |
| 21 | The Killala Bay SAC Smithwicks 1500 Open Boat competition has been won by Michael McVeigh from Donaghadee , who recorded 18 species over two days to win the John Walkin Perpetual Trophy and £500 . |
| 22 | students , retired people over 60 , under 18s , passport to leisure , stage pass holders and registered unemployed — half price seats throughout the house . |
| 23 | Nevertheless we had over 2,000,000 fewer children under 14 to care for , but 2,500,000 more people over 60 to provide for , before the last war . |
| 24 | This revealed a higher number of referrals to the psychogeriatric service for people in Newham than in Ipswich ( understandable in view of the fact that Newham has a larger elderly population : approximately 28,500 people over 65 compared with 18,800 in Ipswich ) . |
| 25 | Bradford Hill exhorted common sense in the analysis of epidemiological data over 25 years ago . |
| 26 | Anthony said : ‘ It was my first fish over 2 lb . |
| 27 | All Welsh counties for instance are limited to increasing their budgets of one point seven on point seven five percent over nineteen ninety three , ninety four are as the cities of Cardiff and Swansea and the borough of Newport and it is this cap of one point seven percent as my honourable friend for Cardiff South and Penarth has pointed out , which is at the route of the funding problems of the South Wales police authority area . |
| 28 | This will also apply to long-term sick and disabled people over 55 . |
| 29 | Age Concern wrote in December to social security minister Nicholas Scott expressing anger severely disabled people over 65 were ineligible for the 1993 Fund . |
| 30 | British Telecom is planning more job cuts that could lead to the loss of 80,000 staff over five years , unions fear . |