Example sentences of "[pron] be over [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight of them are over 70 . |
| 2 | ‘ They are old , practically all of them are over 60 , and traditionally not given to any kind of positive relations with blacks , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ The age structure of our customers as provided by the latest survey is as follows — approximately 50% of them are over 40 years ; some 25% are in the 20–40 age group ; while the remaining 25% are aged below 20 years . |
| 4 | I am over 18 years of age . |
| 5 | I am over 18 years of age . |
| 6 | I stand here , I am not a perfect minister because I am over forty I 've got children that are not too awkward but erm , could be awkward and , I have n't a spouse ah and ah I stand here saying that I 'm not good at everything I 'm good with young people , I 'm not o only good with old people I try to do my best . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm over eighteen , Patsy , ’ Ellie replied , ‘ and I can wear my hair as I want . ’ |
| 8 | Well I 'm not worried cos I 'm over sixty there , but these lads , I 'm worried about these lads , that have mortgages and children to rear up they had lots of worries , and they still have . |
| 9 | And that 's fifty P off cos over sixty , I said I 'm over sixty so she knocked fifty P off . |
| 10 | I 'm over 40 , so how can I firm up a sagging bustline ? |
| 11 | I began at the age of 16 , and now I 'm over 60 . |
| 12 | ‘ I was over sixty when you were born . |
| 13 | I , I am a single parent and I was over forty when I had my one and only son now the father walked out but I never deprived my son of knowing who is father was or what he was . |
| 14 | I was over 40 . |
| 15 | ‘ No , Mother Francis said that they would n't take me , even if I did want to be a nun , until I was over twenty-one . ’ |
| 16 | Yes , I could stay the night , as I was homeless and compulsorily brought here , but in the morning , as I was over twenty-five , I must report to the billeting Officer . |
| 17 | At the beginning of 1983 , there were only two , both of which are over four years old . |
| 18 | On top of these ancient hills , which are over 400 million years old , you will be rewarded by magnificent panoramic views . |
| 19 | What that clearly involves ( Table I.5 ) is first , a relatively stable total proportion over statutory retirement-pension age , but second , a substantial increase in the number and proportion of that retirement-age population which is over 85 , and a decrease in the number and proportion of 65 to 74 year-olds who are now often described as ‘ the young elderly ’ . |
| 20 | Full day trips include a drive along the magnificent High Alpine Grossglockner Road , where you will see the longest glacier in the eastern Alps the Pasterze , which is over five and a half miles long . |
| 21 | There is a small Methodist chapel which is over 100 years old and still used every Sunday . |
| 22 | The only difference is he might run from London to Brighton , which is over 50 miles , and possibly back again . |
| 23 | ( 4 ) In the case of an offer which , if accepted in full , would result in the offeror holding shares carrying over 50 per cent of the target 's voting rights , the condition relating to the level of acceptances required ( " the acceptance condition " ) may be set above the minimum required by Rule 10 ( which is over 50 per cent of the target 's voting rights ) . |
| 24 | We landed at Tromsø , which is over three hundred kilometres north of the Arctic Circle , in a heatwave . |
| 25 | She gazed at the stubby brick lighthouse , which was over two hundred years old , and had been built to guide the fishing boats home safely to harbour . |
| 26 | But , when they mean student they mean people who are over eighteen or nineteen . |
| 27 | Those who are over thirty , and not fifty or over ( for whom nine months is the norm ) , or who have a theology degree , undertake twenty-one months . |
| 28 | This means that members in the Republic of Ireland who are over twenty five years of age and have more than a three year no claim bonus have had no increase in premium for over three years and for all other policyholder there has been no increase for over two years . |
| 29 | Armed with the knowledge that 2 in 3 of the 4.6 million farmers over 55 years of age have less than 5 hectares , and that the community has about 2 million farmers who are over 65 , McSharry has pointed out that the economic viability of many such farms is constantly under threat and that the introduction of an early retirement scheme would help the small farmer and also reduce production . |
| 30 | Well , the British economy is on its knees , thanks to the recession and , with nearly three million out of work , people like Angela — who are over 35 and whose CVs , as far as employers are concerned , have large gaps — are n't exactly in demand . |