Example sentences of "are over [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet three quarters of all personal car journeys are over a distance of five miles or less . |
| 2 | Rivals like Clarify , it says , are over the top at $5,000 a seat . |
| 3 | The strongest youth cultures of the century were in the 1950s and 1960s , and now that the members of this generation are over the border into middle age , they are showing an egotistical , but maybe quite a healthy reluctance to let go of the limelight . |
| 4 | The latest official evidence shows that just under 70 per cent of adults with a disability — 4.2 million people — are over the age of 60 , compared with 25 per cent of the general population . |
| 5 | Nearly 20 per cent of people with disabilities are over the age of 80 . |
| 6 | Contrary to what some people believe , you do not need to be very rich ; nor for that matter is it too late to start thinking about investing once you are over the age of 55 . |
| 7 | For example , if a local authority finds that most of its children in residential care are over the age of 14 , this has enormous implications for provision , for the style of residence and for issues of control and staffing . |
| 8 | Two-thirds of disabled people are over the age of 60 and poverty is correlated with being old . |