Example sentences of "have exceeded [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uplift of the central region of the Fenno-Scandian Shield began about 13 000 a BP and the total uplift since then has exceeded 100 m . |
| 2 | The annual cost of crimes involving cars in one city has exceeded five million pounds . |
| 3 | Kaplan 's 1988 recording with the London Symphony Orchestra for Pickwick IMP Classics ( 1/89 ) has met with considerable critical and popular acclaim , sales now having exceeded 125,000 copies . |
| 4 | The total area dealt with before 1760 could hardly have exceeded 400,000 acres , a negligible amount when one thinks of England as a whole — only just over one per cent . |
| 5 | While it is true that without the transport sector 's contribution , the overall rate of investment in the economy would not have exceeded 10 per cent of national income by 1815 , concentration on such macro-economic data tends to obscure the fact that the financing of improvements in transport was above all an example of regional capital formation . |
| 6 | ‘ It is unfortunate that so little is known of Carlisle , Luguvalium ( Carvetiorum ? ) , although it seems to have grown to considerable size and may have exceeded 70 acres ( 28 ha ) . ’ |
| 7 | At a time when London 's population can hardly have exceeded 2 per cent of the entire nation , it contributed more than one-ninth of the total subsidy . |
| 8 | ( groan , groan — you all know what i want ; - ) ; - ) — with Frank playing 11 games from start my bet is that his goal tally would have exceeded 2 — of course he still misses some qualities — but he knows how to make a goal … as the commentaries said it : ‘ He is under-21 and is still learning the game ’ ) |
| 9 | A great deal of growth was , however , in suburbs outside the limits of the city , which , until much later , was the preferred domicile of the affluent , and so the population of the City itself may not have exceeded 50 000 . |
| 10 | In years of high prices 20 per cent would have been in this situation , while in extremely hard years , such as 1801 , the proportion would have exceeded 40 per cent . |
| 11 | Almost everyone there was a member of a guild , and since the population can hardly have exceeded 1,000 some people must have belonged to several . |
| 12 | The museum , owned by U.S. Aerobatic Team member Kermit Weeks , was totally demolished by winds reported to have exceeded 200 mph — so strong that a DC-6 which had been parked at the airport was found over a mile away . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the Treasurer suggested that the worst was probably over , and that the recession would not be as deep as that of 1982/83 when GDP had declined for four consecutive quarters and both inflation and unemployment had exceeded 10 per cent . |
| 14 | Jack said he would and twenty-three years later , in May 1990 , Roger Corman named it as being among the best pictures he had made , and by then the total had exceeded 200 . |
| 15 | ‘ By lunchtime we were well on our way to reaching this , ’ said Newsline correspondent Stephanie Lessels , ‘ and by 4.45pm we had exceeded 150 miles . ’ |
| 16 | Analysts estimated that the total loss in market capitalization during this period had exceeded 300,000,000 million yen , or more than US $2,000,000 million . |
| 17 | Since 1979 the other Cabinet ministers ( Margaret Thatcher excepted ) who have exceeded five years in one department are Nicholas Edwards , the Secretary of State for Wales between 1979 and 1987 ; George Younger , as Scottish Secretary ; Nigel Lawson , as Chancellor of the Exchequer ; and Geoffrey Howe , as Foreign Secretary . |
| 18 | Sales for the Renault 25 in this eight-year period have exceeded 750,000 across Europe , with almost 60,000 registered in the UK . |