Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yeah , well he does get a bit of over the top |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | During the 1950s and 1960s the SKDL regularly gained the support of over one-fifth of the electorate . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Well those of us who did our probationary year sort of over ten years ago . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Now , you see you 're lucky that that he 's , he 's sort of over there |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I do n't get red , I 've never have done I , its only sort of over the past sort of half year , and I do n't know why , they never started , started to go red |
| 22 | Today , it has a membership of over one thousand . |
| 23 | He gave as an example the ‘ Union of Building and Repair Workers of Korea ’ with an alleged membership of over one million , which was challenged by the Soviet delegation ; subsequently the American delegation conceded it did not exist . |
| 24 | The subjects to be covered were diverse , scanning a period of over a century , but they could be arranged in an approximately chronological order . |
| 25 | He and his heirs were granted free denization ( 1616 ) , and he became rector of Over Wallop in Hampshire ( 1620 ) . |
| 26 | The fastest growing city in the United States , with a population of over one million , Las Vegas , once home to the heavy mob and every form of conceivable vice , has cleaned up its act . |
| 27 | ( Coincidentally the town of Alma-Ata has now a population of over one million and is in Kazakhstan ) . |
| 28 | D do you predict that the the political nature of of the town at least wi will be will be changed in quite a fundamental way if and when the strike ends as a consequence of over this new ? |
| 29 | ‘ You are , after all , in charge of over a thousand men . |
| 30 | From the river 's edge it stretched back on to the plain for a distance of over a kilometre , and he thought that it must contain well over three thousand men . |