Example sentences of "over one [adj] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | In the 1970s alone , over one million part-time jobs were created in the service industries . |
| 32 | As far as companies are concerned , in 1990 there were over one million on the register in Great Britain , but of these only a little more than one per cent were public companies . |
| 33 | The annual statistics plotted in Figure 4.1 reveal that the number of births declined by one third from a peak of over one million in 1964 to less than 660,000 in 1977 . |
| 34 | In 1902 the Trans-Siberian railway carried well over one million passengers , and the statistics of their class breakdown are fascinating : |
| 35 | RTE Radio 1 has over one million listeners daily , while 2FM has over 700,000 . |
| 36 | According to Jordan radio " over one million " people gathered in the streets of Amman to greet the King on his arrival . |
| 37 | Cruzcampo has enjoyed some important successes in 1992 , with its pavilion at Expo being the most popular with over one million visitors . |
| 38 | Pneumonia accounts for over one million hospital admissions annually in the USA and is the eighth leading cause of death . |
| 39 | A joint Greenpeace/WWF petition in favour of the " world park " had raised over one million signatures . |
| 40 | Thirty African countries have agreed to co-operate in efforts to save the elephant , whose population in Africa has fallen to around 600,000 , compared with over one million a decade ago . |
| 41 | The grant recognizes their ownership of a little over one million hectares in the Pastaza region , in the east of the country . |
| 42 | Just over one million additional hospital cases were treated in 1989 , compared with seventy eight . |
| 43 | Just over one million additional hospital cases were treated in 1989 , compared with seventy eight . |
| 44 | Over one million claimants were denied further guaranteed payments and the amount of relief was fixed by Public Assistance Committees on the basis of family resources . |
| 45 | Over one million pounds has been given away since the series began and audience figures last year topped 14 million . |
| 46 | Over one million pounds has been given away since the series began and audience figures last year topped 14 million . |
| 47 | ( Coincidentally the town of Alma-Ata has now a population of over one million and is in Kazakhstan ) . |
| 48 | We doubled the number of Spend & Save cardholders to over one million by the year end . |
| 49 | To meet the needs of over one million customers , British Gas South Western offers employee training which is second to none . |
| 50 | In September 1968 the executive sanitary officer in his annual report for 1967 said that over one thousand houses were occupied by more than one family and in several cases seven or eight families occupied what was originally a single dwelling . |
| 51 | Today , it has a membership of over one thousand . |
| 52 | The Camperdown was cut in half — sank quickly with a resulting loss of the lives of over one thousand men including the stubborn Admiral . |
| 53 | And over one thousand pounds of fruit had been saved . |
| 54 | There are over one thousand shopping centres in Great Britain . |
| 55 | A total of 1,636 Garratts ran on eighty-six railways in forty-eight countries : of these , Beyer , Peacock built just over one thousand . |
| 56 | Well I by good luck have had some copies of the petition sent down to me , so I started it , it immediately and I had in the first they made over one thousand one hundred and twenty five signatures . |
| 57 | Over one thousand people had no water . |
| 58 | Over one thousand qualified , committed and underpaid young men and women can not be expected to exercise greater patience . |
| 59 | At the moment the school has three hundred and sixty pupils approximately which is very small compared with others containing well over one thousand . |
| 60 | Over the past sixty years the buildings housing the scientific laboratories and teaching classrooms have been built up and the population of students and staff has grown until there are now nearly one thousand registered postgraduate students and over one thousand academic , research and support staff . |