Example sentences of "[noun pl] of over " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | As a result , it is now possible to consider the stylistic affinities of over one hundred mosaics within a basic chronological context . |
8 | 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 : |
9 | The Camperdown was cut in half — sank quickly with a resulting loss of the lives of over one thousand men including the stubborn Admiral . |
10 | To meet the needs of over one million customers , British Gas South Western offers employee training which is second to none . |
11 | Second , the 1965 US " voluntary restraint programme " ( made mandatory in 1968 ) imposed limits on outward direct investment ( unless US multinationals could show offsetting balance of payments earnings ) , and discouraged loans by US banks of over one year to international borrowers including subsidiaries of US multinationals . |
12 | Resources of over US$352,000,000 would be used for purposes including religious schooling and combating corruption . |
13 | Cells fitted with diamond windows have been operated at pressures of over one million atmospheres at the Carnegie Institute in Washington . |
14 | By using 64-bit data transfer rates , the system can achieve rates of over 40Mbps on the VME bus . |
15 | Belgium , Denmark , France , Ireland and Italy all have growth rates of over 1 per cent. , Spain , Portugal and Holland over 2 per cent. , and Germany and Luxembourg over 3 per cent . |
16 | On July 12 the Chamber of Accounts of the Alpes-Maritimes département had issued an interim verdict holding Médecin responsible for irregular payments of over F13,000,000 ( approximately US$2,400,000 ) in public funds to a Paris finance house during an exercise in 1986 to restructure Nice city council 's debts ; he had been given until Sept. 17 to explain himself , ahead of a final ruling due in November . |
17 | Problems begin to occur in journeys of over one hour . |
18 | But not when you put it into context with the vast sums of money spent supporting privatization , or the salaries of over privileged , so called captains of industries , industries that once belonged to this nation . |
19 | His best bet of the day , impressive Lingfield winner Carlowitz ( 5-1 ) , coupled with next best El Volador ( 11-8 ) rewarded followers at odds of over 13-1 . |
20 | Whereas loss of signal in coaxial cable makes runs of over one kilometre disproportionately expensive , because of the need to amplify signals on the way , the low loss of fibres makes long runs cheap ; but fibres need conversion hardware at each end . |