Example sentences of "[adv] over [adj] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When newly formed it is flexible and elastic and in many larvae it remains so over much of the body . |
| 2 | At this level of support the electoral system begins to work very handsomely in a party 's favour , and Labour came first in over three-quarters of the wards . |
| 3 | It was a huge thing , hanging in the air from a beam , its duct turned to point down over one of the stalls . |
| 4 | Later , as the aircraft swooped down over many of the fields that were so familiar to me in my detecting rambles around the countryside , I soon realised that the weather had taken its toll on the cropmarks . |
| 5 | The graveyard was on a slope above the village , and from where he stood William could look down over most of the neighbourhood where he used to live . |
| 6 | Just over two-thirds of the total , or 10 per cent , worked with some identifiable voluntary organisation . |
| 7 | Just over one-third of the company 's shares — 20 million — are to be placed at 20p with institutional investors and a further five million will be put on offer . |
| 8 | The average waiting time for trial at Crown Court was 56 days in 1989 , and in that year remand prisoners made up just over one-fifth of the average prison population . |
| 9 | Table 3.2 Net official sales of UK government bonds 1981 – 1991 As can be seen from Table 3.1 , just over one-tenth of the nominal value of outstanding government bonds is now in the form of index-linked stocks . |
| 10 | After several months of touring and organising in 1824 Clarkson claimed 200 local associations and 225 petitions , just over one-quarter of the number gained in one month in 1814 . |
| 11 | A few cases dominate this reporting , while just over one-half of the rape cases mentioned appeared only in one sample newspaper . |
| 12 | She was directly over one of the pebbles and could see that all the others were moving away from hers . |
| 13 | Women make up over three-quarters of the teaching profession and ANDES estimates that some 90% of its membership is female . |
| 14 | Women outnumber men in the teaching profession , making up over three-quarters of the teachers in primary schools , and just under half of the teachers in secondary schools . |
| 15 | The exercise of electoral influence of this kind , by individuals as well as by the government , was made possible by the fact that most of the members representing boroughs , who made up over four-fifths of the House of Commons , were elected by very small numbers of voters . |
| 16 | To finance the French war effort in 1949 had cost them , in US terms , $500 m. — which was greater than the estimated French budgetary deficit for the year — and had eaten up over two-thirds of the annual total of US aid to France . |
| 17 | Erm what , what we do today is to way go back over some of the ideas about land reform and then carry them through to the ninety fifty er Agrarian Reform Bill . |
| 18 | This was a Greek theatre , hollowed out of the steep mountainside and looking out over one of the finest views in the world , with the sea far below on one side and , in the distance , Mount Etna . |
| 19 | In 1970 productivity in European manufacturing seems to have been around or perhaps a little over one-half of the US level , while in Japan it was only about 40 per cent of the US level . |
| 20 | So 156 MPs had some identifiable business interest , a little over half of the party , but for most of them some other interest seemed to predominate . |
| 21 | One hundred and fifty nine states have signed UNCLOS , several significant western states have not , although , to date a little over half of the required ratifications have been deposited . |
| 22 | Well over three-quarters of the respondents said they would be purchasing a microcomputer or additional software within the next year . |
| 23 | The Hindu-revivalist Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) gained well over one-fifth of the Lok Sabha seats and emerged as the main opposition party . |
| 24 | Young ladies proverbially make sure they have their " beauty sleep " — the statement " a good night 's sleep improves one 's appearance " was endorsed by over two-thirds of the sample . |
| 25 | Those in favour of an executive presidency thus constituted about 40 per cent of the electorate ; to be accepted , the proposal had to be approved by over half of the total electorate . |
| 26 | Yet over most of the world it inevitably came up against social and institutional obstacles which prevented or inhibited it , and in so doing also stood in the way of the other great task which capitalist — or indeed any — industrial development set its landed sector . |