Example sentences of "of [n mass] over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only seven Peps beat the deposit return of £137 over three years while nine Peps beat the £109 deposit return over the year to the beginning of this month . |
| 2 | Some schools had benefited from government funds allocated to implementing the national curriculum , with one reporting a grant of £20,000 over three years . |
| 3 | Total of revised equipment spending for Type I telecommunications carriers ( those companies licensed by the Ministry to operate on designated frequencies , was $20,600m , while Type II carriers , which lease frequencies from the Type I carriers , invested $1,490m , an increase of 14% over 1991 . |
| 4 | Pre-tax profit of $126.2m — an improvement of $141.6m over 1992 . |
| 5 | Newco can claim industrial buildings allowances in equal annual instalments of 4% over 25 years , on the lower of the purchase price and the vendor 's original cost . |
| 6 | That was a rise of 13% over 1989 . |
| 7 | Dream : Anglers watched in disbelief as a shoal of bream over 100 metres long swam along the Leeds-Liverpool Canal at Melling . |
| 8 | Hewlett says that it expects the pact to generate around $100m of sales over three years . |
| 9 | The pact is expected to generate around $100m of sales over three years . |
| 10 | Only one significant point is that the County Council 's workforce that has more than twenty per cent of staff over fifty years of age , which is quite unusual compared to other local authorities , and it has quite serious implications for the pension fund , |
| 11 | Qureshi and Walker ( 1986 , p. 115 ) in a survey of people over 75 , and their carers found that caring could be a difficult experience for both parties : the lack of alternative resources drove people together , imposing dependency . |
| 12 | The rapid growth in the number of people over 75 will bring a very significant increase in the total number of dementia sufferers in spite of the forecasted decline in the population aged 65 to 74 . |
| 13 | As many as 20 per cent of people over 80 may be suffering from dementia , but no accurate figures are available . |
| 14 | However a sizeable proportion of the very elderly population , perhaps as much as 20 per cent of people over 80 ( Norman , 1987a ) , do experience mental impairment of increasing severity , affecting memory , reason , self-awareness , and behaviour . |
| 15 | Residential care for elderly people is , perhaps , the hottest issue for local planners : of all the districts in the Trent health region , Bassetlaw has the fastest growing population of people over 85 . |
| 16 | The number of people over 85 will rise by 54 per cent in the next 20 years , threatening a ‘ health care catastrophe , ’ the British Medical Association said yesterday … it adds : ‘ the general treatment of the frail elderly by the state is a scandal . |
| 17 | In the next 30 years , Britain expects the number of people over 65 to increase by 20% and the number of people over 84 to increase by 47% . |
| 18 | Responding to the needs of people who live on their own — and some 36 per cent of people over 65 do — could increase sales on many items , notably food items , which rarely attract single householders because the goods are currently only available in large , wasteful quantities unless they are convenience foods . |
| 19 | The lengthening expectation of life and a changing age structure have produced a population with a rising proportion of people over 65 . |
| 20 | The first census of people over 65 in residential care in Leicestershire was undertaken in 1976 , with a second in 1979 . |
| 21 | About half the total expenditure of the hospital and community services goes on the care of people over 65 . |
| 22 | The countries with the highest proportions of people over 60 and 80 , and the longest life expectancy are highlighted . |
| 23 | The number of people over 60 will be relatively stable till the end of the century , but within the total group those over 80 rise rapidly from 1.8 million in 1985 to 2.6 million by 2011 ( Thompson 1987 ) . |
| 24 | Marje , who has advised millions of people over 50 years about their personal problems , had no idea about her lover 's double life . |
| 25 | In the next 30 years , Britain expects the number of people over 65 to increase by 20% and the number of people over 84 to increase by 47% . |
| 26 | In year 1 you may put in a maximum of £3,000 and up to £1,800 in each succeeding year — up to a total of £9,000 over 5 years . |
| 27 | They would mean increased ministry spending on environmental schemes of £31m over three years . |
| 28 | In other words , the value of money decreases so much that the eventual outlay of £1,116 over 93 years is only equivalent to just short of £200 in 1900 's currency — weird stuff money ! |
| 29 | The Lords of the Congregation could rightly assert the duty and responsibility of the nobility to act for the good of the commonweal , and indeed experience of minorities over two centuries had in practice underwritten the theoretical position to an unusual extent . |
| 30 | Unisys Corp and Honeywell Inc say they have settled the pending lawsuits over the sale of the Sperry Aerospace Group to Honeywell in December 1986 — Honeywell reckoned that it paid too much because Unisys held back material information ; Unisys will make a pre-tax payment to Honeywell of $43.2m over three years toward a $70m total settlement , with the remaining funding coming from insurance and an investment banking firm ; as a result of the settlement , Unisys will report a net extraordinary charge of $26.4m against its first quarter figures for the period to March 31 ; it says the charge will be offset by a larger than expected net gain from implementing the FASB 106 and FASB 109 accounting changes that it already announced it would make . |