Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [n mass] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | It hails from a strong mainframe background , which still represents 85% of it sales , though it says it is looking to downsize this commitment to 70% over the next two years . |
| 2 | There has been a vast impoverishment of people over the past decades . |
| 3 | Economic growth , at an annual average of 4% over the past five years , is not bad in the circumstances , though not as spectacular as the South-East Asian growth rates that Sri Lanka aspires to emulate . |
| 4 | The number of properties repossessed rose by 74% over the 1990 figure to 75,540 in 1991 . |
| 5 | The Bristol-based Frenchay Healthcare Trust , said the 89 job losses were needed to help cut spending by £2.3m over the next year . |
| 6 | THE Bank of England came under strong criticism yesterday from a cross-party committee of MPs over its role in the collapse of the Bank of Credit & Commerce International . |
| 7 | Around 1,500 works of art were sold last year with a healthy number of sales over DM50,000 . |
| 8 | A stability test involves the accumulation of a substantial amount of data over a prolonged period of time and may require the production of reports at several stages of the test . |
| 9 | This gives a good spread of fruit over a large area and the annual production is easier to control because the number of fruiting buds can be increased or decreased . |
| 10 | One of the major changes to which our society must give meaning is the increasing number of people over the age of retirement , especially those in their 80s and 90s . |
| 11 | SunSoft has enhanced Solaris 2.0 to 2.2 ( though it 's not officially calling it that ) boosting symmetric multiprocessing performance by 60% over the previous version as measured on an eight-way system . |
| 12 | Although tax consultancy fee income rose by 3% to £105m , this compares with a total increase of 134% over the previous three years . |
| 13 | LSI estimates its floating point at 15% over the existing LSI part and 25% better than competitors ' . |
| 14 | Midland , the only bank to restrict its sending cash abroad service to existing customers , charges £6 on drafts of up to £100 and 0.5 per cent of the sterling value with a minimum charge of £9 over that amount . |
| 15 | Midland , the only bank to restrict its sending cash abroad service to existing customers , charges £6 on drafts of up to £100 and 0.5 per cent of the sterling value with a minimum charge of £9 over that amount . |
| 16 | Midland , the only bank to restrict its sending cash abroad service to existing customers , charges £6 on drafts of up to £100 and 0.5 per cent of the sterling value with a minimum charge of £9 over that amount . |
| 17 | Internal Delivery Service The internal delivery system by messenger is a consequence of the wide scattering of staff over large areas and different buildings . |
| 18 | Cubitt 's greatest savagery was reserved for the ‘ Meeting-House Gallery ’ ’ which he described as ‘ about the crudest attempt ever made at providing seats for a certain number of people over the heads of the rest ’ , a ‘ failure practically , and a horror artistically ’ , ‘ uncouth ’ and a ‘ gigantic misfit ’ . |