Example sentences of "of over " in BNC.
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| 1 | ACET provides a dedicated Home Care service using a team of doctors and nurses backed by a trained and active network of over 400 volunteers . |
| 2 | Small panels of bold , simple very low relief are perhaps most easily carved by hand , but on other work time savings of over 90 per cent can be achieved ; 75 per cent is a reasonable average . |
| 3 | Single copies price £2 ( plus 50p postage and packing ) ; bulk orders of over 100 copies price £1.50 each including postage and packing . |
| 4 | The net effect was the end of the Class 25 and 27 , and a remarkable stack of over thirty asbestos-contaminated loco bodies piled high in Vic Berry 's Leicester scrapyard as he struggled to cope with the influx . |
| 5 | In June this year AMP 's shareholding jumped to 18 per cent when it acquired a block of over 23 million shares , representing 13 per cent of Pearl 's equity , from FAI Insurances , a leading Australian insurance and investment group . |
| 6 | Buying Pearl would give AMP a further market share of over 2 per cent . |
| 7 | AMP currently employs over 9,000 people worldwide and has a sales force of over 4,300 agents . |
| 8 | Mr James was brought in by Eagle 's creditor banks — the group has debts of over £80m — and has been given until the end of next year to turn the business around . |
| 9 | Some 18 per cent of managing directors secured pay increases of over 20 per cent in 1988-89 , compared with only 8 per cent of executives below board level . |
| 10 | The Jonathan Wren survey is more modestly based on 453 City placements over the past six months ; but these , too , show much bigger increases achieved by mobile fund managers ( over 26 per cent , with an average salary of over £50,000 ) than messengers ( less than 10 ½ per cent , with an average salary of under £7,000 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I say to any pensioner in this hall or watching on the television , you have personally been robbed of over £2,000 . |
| 12 | Assuming pre-tax profits of £230m , before one-off property income , Sears shares are on a p/e of 10.5 at 118p , a 10 per cent discount to the market , and are on a yield of over 6 per cent , exceeded only by Next and Storehouse . |
| 13 | Employers ' contributions were similiarly arranged , though with a further jump to 10.45 per cent on all pay-packets of over £165 a week . |
| 14 | Largely due to her courage and drive she enabled them to grow in stature so that the choirs were able to perform the major choral works drawing an audience of over 1,000 at a performance of the Dream of Gerontius and be broadcast with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on three occasions . |
| 15 | During conference debate on industrial law , Brenda Dean , general secretary of the print union Sogat , attacked Mr Maxwell over the treatment of over 100 workers at the Nuffield Press in Oxford who , she said , had to agree to individual contracts or be sacked at the end of the week . |
| 16 | Pre-tax profits of £30m to £40m point to a p/e of over 15 at 104p , down 21p , which is less support than a yield of 9.5 per cent if the final holds . |
| 17 | These problems meant 1988 profits were only £1.06m , compared to expectations of over £4m , and in June the company warned that profits for this year would be below expectations . |
| 18 | The visitors ' centre also describes the pride of the Spanish Armada , the galleon Girona , which was wrecked off this coast in 1588 with the loss of over 1,000 lives . |
| 19 | A score of over 70 can be taken to imply an already-advanced economy , and so not a particularly favourable climate for new investment . |
| 20 | To give an idea of the desolation of some of the villages ( in the Saratov area ) ( may mention that the village of Kano , in the Markstadt district , which has a normal population of over 3,000 , has now only 1,100 inhabitants left , and remember the winter is only just beginning . |
| 21 | Union membership continued to rise steadily , especially in service employment , to reach a peak of over 13 million in 1979 . |
| 22 | His budget of March 1987 took the standard rate of income tax down to 27p , and in all a huge budget surplus of over £16 billion was recorded . |
| 23 | The Association 's Branches , numbering over 630 worldwide and comprising a membership of over 103,000 , provide a network of Honorary Welfare Officers . |
| 24 | Books of Remembrance record the names of over 125,000 and women who gave their lives in the Service , and Roll of Honour commemorates over 19,000 US airmen who died on active service while serving in the UK . |
| 25 | Radio 1 is heard by an average audience of over seventeen million every week . |
| 26 | Since 1979 there has been a loss of over 1.5 million manufacturing jobs ; by 1987 manufacturing accounted for only 22 per cent of the British workforce , ‘ a figure more typical of countries with large fishing or agricultural sectors ’ . |
| 27 | Ahidjo did not subsequently return to Cameroun , and in the presidential election of January 1984 Biya received a ‘ yes ’ vote of over 90 per cent , which most Camerounians considered to be a genuine indication of his underlying support . |
| 28 | The situation in the Kikuyu areas of Kenya had become particularly acute by the 1950s as a result of the re-allocation from 1910 onwards of over 7 million acres of land to private European settlers . |
| 29 | Then , as now , we had a car fitted with the optional Laycock overdrive , operating on third and top ; then as now it emphasised the low-speed/high-gear flexibility but did show up a big gap between second and third — a gap of over 30mph in maxima . |
| 30 | That 's the number of lucky motorists the Wolfsburg manufacturer has equipped with the Golf G60 Limited , a car that was the subject of over 1000 enquiries when it was announced to dealers in Germany last year but only had a production run of 70 . |