Example sentences of "[verb] over [num] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surveys over the last two decades , in America at least , have typically reported over 80 per cent of workers being ‘ satisfied ’ with their jobs ( Hackman and Oldham 1980 , 10 ) . |
| 2 | This should not be taken too literally — not every rock in the crust is a granite — things like limestones are vastly different in composition — but the average composition of all the rocks on the continents is about that of granite and contains over 60 per cent of silica . |
| 3 | Agriculture was the backbone of the economy , employing over 80 per cent of the resident labour force ; pastoral husbandry was the main activity , with wool and mohair the principal exports . |
| 4 | The KMT won a resounding victory , gaining over 70 per cent of votes cast . |
| 5 | A quarter of the sixth formers take A-level art , frequently gaining over 80 per cent A-grades . |
| 6 | Posters are now graded according to the OSCAR system , which covers over 90 per cent of roadside posters . |
| 7 | Results in the 71 seats in electoral districts , where the winning candidate was required to secure over 50 per cent of the votes , were decisive for only 13 seats ( 10 of them won by the DLP ) . |
| 8 | Dairy products make up over 20 per cent of our calories and they also provide over 20 per cent of our protein intake and much of our calcium . |
| 9 | Yet AMP is prepared to embark on a £1bn adventure , representing over 6 per cent of its assets , which at best will only give it a share of the British life insurance market of between 2 and 2.5 per cent . |
| 10 | It must be considered extremely fortunate that the first preparations of the sodium salt of penicillin , which although of great antibacterial activity contained over 99 per cent of impurities , showed so little toxicity . |
| 11 | Indeed , an international survey of old people in Britain , Denmark , and the United States in the 1960s found over 40 per cent of them living within ten minutes ' journey of their children in all three countries . |
| 12 | The latest opinion polls , published last weekend ( no polls are allowed to be published in the final week before an election ) , predict that the conservative alliance of the neo-Gaullist RPR party and the centre-right UDF party will win over 70 per cent of the 577 seats in the National Assembly . |
| 13 | The rapid expansion was due to development of the country 's mineral resources , dominated by diamonds ( which contributed over 84 per cent of export earnings ) and the beef industry ( which accounts for most of agriculture 's 3 per cent contribution to GDP ) . |
| 14 | Hearn and Doyle , whose players won over 70 per cent of the prize money on the WPBSA circuit last year , would rather see greater efficiency and cost effectiveness . |
| 15 | Ershad 's Jatiya Party won over 10 per cent of the seats , including that won by Ershad himself ( who was under arrest and facing serious corruption charges ) in his home district of Rangpur . |
| 16 | In the contests for around 52,000 seats on over 2,300 local councils , Solidarity-backed Citizens ' Committees won over 41 per cent of the seats nationwide and performed strongly in the main cities , making a virtually clean sweep in Gdansk , Krakow and Wroclaw and taking nearly 90 per cent in Warsaw , the capital . |
| 17 | The SPÖ won 47.7 per cent of the vote and 52 seats ( 54.9 per cent and 62 seats at the last elections in November 1987 — see p. 35792 ) ; the FPÖ won 22.6 per cent and 23 seats ( 9.7 per cent and eight seats in 1987 ) ; the Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) won 18.1 per cent and 18 seats ( 28.4 per cent and 30 seats in 1987 ) ; and the Green Alternatives won over 9 per cent and thus entered the parliament for the first time with seven seats ( having won just under 5 per cent in 1987 ) . |
| 18 | People over 65 consume over 45 per cent of total health spending . |
| 19 | Even in the 1900s the national census returns show over 60 per cent of men over 65 employed , in England , the United States , and France . |
| 20 | Great Britain was rising more slowly ; she added over 26 per cent to her population , and Italy added 24 per cent . |
| 21 | In 1974–79 , the inflation rate averaged over 15 per cent . |
| 22 | Labour 's rather narrow parliamentary majority in 1964 was chiefly an effect of a slump in Tory support and continuing electoral revival of the Liberals ( who received over 10 per cent of the vote for the first time since the war ) . |
| 23 | Flame retardants , degradability additives and UV stabilisers will be the best performers , all forecast to grow over 25 per cent in five years . |
| 24 | In school A the proportion of pupils of Afro-Caribbean and Asian origin is approximately 25 percent , whereas for school B the ethnic ‘ minority ’ pupils are in the majority , comprising over 60 per cent of the school population . |
| 25 | Stage 3 is defined as comprising between 20 and 50 per cent slow waves in the EEG , and Stage 4 sleep as comprising over 50 per cent of the record dominated by slow waves . |
| 26 | But the study showed over 10 per cent of GPs were prescribing oestrogen only . |
| 27 | Available UK coal stocks may last another three to four hundred years , North Sea gas used at current levels another 30 years , and we have already used over 40 per cent of North Sea oil . |
| 28 | Hotel chains in Tokyo , Osaka and other large cities enjoy over 90 per cent occupancy , as visitors use the western-style hotels as ‘ urban resorts ’ . |
| 29 | National Assembly elections involve two rounds of voting on consecutive Sundays with the two most successful candidates in the first round and candidates polling over 12.5 per cent of the vote going on to the second round . |
| 30 | In a second by-election , in Oshawa , near Toronto , the New Democratic Party ( NDP ) held the seat of Ed Broadbent , its former federal leader who retired earlier in the year , polling over 50 per cent of the vote . |