Example sentences of "[noun] of over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The traffic moves at a fast pace and averaging a speed of over one hundred kilometres an hour is not difficult . |
| 2 | Building and civil engineering experienced virtually a 50 per cent reduction , whilst even the clothing industry suffered the loss of over one-third of its pre-war workforce . |
| 3 | Oracle Corp says that its Oracle7 Co-operative Server database is now up on Apple Computer Inc 's Workgroup Server 95 running A/UX , Apple 's implementation of Unix , adding that the product is the result of over one year of joint development work between Oracle and Apple . |
| 4 | Oracle Corp says that its Oracle7 Co-operative Server database is now up on Apple Computer Inc 's Workgroup Server 95 running A/UX , Apple 's implementation of Unix , adding that the product is the result of over one year of joint development work between Oracle and Apple . |
| 5 | With a turnover of over stlg13m it 's quite a small profit margin for any business to be making but I could still do with tickets being half the price they are . |
| 6 | Government officials announced that spending would be cut by 15 per cent and civil service recruitment by 40 per cent , with consequent savings of over KSh600,000,000 . |
| 7 | He was , perhaps , less than worthy of his literary immortality : in 1800 the vicar of Over Stowey , having been cheated in a deal over some turf , called him ‘ as rascally faced fellow as ever I met with ’ . |
| 8 | However , there were a few outliers with values of over 0.4% , and so marking to the market occasionally had an important effect on arbitrage profits . |
| 9 | Jonathan Mann , director of the World Health Organization 's global programme on AIDS , which he founded in 1986 and which had an annual budget of over US$100,000,000 , announced his resignation on March 16 , citing disagreements with the WHO Director-General , Hiroshi Nakajima . |
| 10 | Yeah , well he does get a bit of over the top |
| 11 | DMB and B Result , which had a link with a big international agency , went bust recently with a net deficit of over IR£0.5m . |
| 12 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
| 13 | During the 1950s and 1960s the SKDL regularly gained the support of over one-fifth of the electorate . |
| 14 | The Oldham-based firm , which manufactures a wide range of healthcare products , from swabs to saline solution and a variety of over the counter medicines and treatments , recently spent more than £1m on extending its Bootle pharmaceutical manufacturing facility , which trades under the name Seton Prebbles . |
| 15 | From here descend ( south westwards ) to Wastwater ( 2 miles ) following the course of Over Back before following the lakeshore road to the head of the lake ( 1 mile ) . |
| 16 | Like her earlier Stand We At Last , which told the story of over a century of Western feminism , Daddy 's Girls shows Zoë Fairbairns to be adept at recreating detail and charting the changes in character 's lives as years pass . |
| 17 | She put the money in her purse with a reverence shown only by people who rarely , if ever , had handled notes of over one pound denomination . |
| 18 | Working from the artists ' chance selections , Heinrichsmeyer created geometric paintings resembling those of the De Stijl group , which he in turn transposed onto the planar surfaces of over one hundred cubic armchairs . |
| 19 | New legislation approved by the Senate on July 4 decreed that from July 8 all cash transactions of over L20,000,000 ( about US$15,000 ) had to be made through recognized intermediaries . |
| 20 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 21 | He not only holds the far west living of Queen Thorne — which comprises the Hardyesque village roll-call of Over Compton , Nether Compton , Poyntington , Sandford Orcas and Trent — but farms his own glebe land ( Hereford steers and Texel Cross sheep ) . |
| 22 | As a result , it is now possible to consider the stylistic affinities of over one hundred mosaics within a basic chronological context . |
| 23 | Leonard argued the case through the columns of Over the Hills for Spring 1930 , in reforming ignorance of the emerging Nazi appropriation of the Germanic pastoral dream : |
| 24 | After about forty minutes Van Gelder moved up into the bows with a portable six-inch searchlight which , on such a clear night , had an effective range of over a mile . |
| 25 | The Camperdown was cut in half — sank quickly with a resulting loss of the lives of over one thousand men including the stubborn Admiral . |
| 26 | To meet the needs of over one million customers , British Gas South Western offers employee training which is second to none . |
| 27 | Well those of us who did our probationary year sort of over ten years ago . |
| 28 | Er , er it I think the whole place is sort of over the other side there 's a , sort of a bridge there and possibly , I mean , I 'm sure that I 've seen a photograph from the other side . |
| 29 | Now , you see you 're lucky that that he 's , he 's sort of over there |
| 30 | there 's a thousand pound he said , you know , if you can make it right sort of over the next month but he said basically I can not do anything until erm the end of February , he said you come in the end of February he said and then we can start to sort it out , he said I ca n't do anything for you until then . |