Example sentences of "to [n mass] over " in BNC.

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1 Having fallen back from about 360p to 320p over the last few days , Fisons ' top management was busy round at Hoare Govett yesterday , trying to reassure nervous institutions investors .
2 Even with a £30,000 loan , a customer could have saved up to £2,600 over the last five years .
3 It expects the 78% share of desktops currently running by MS-DOS to fall to 29% by 1997 , the Apple Macintosh to retain a 10% share over the period , Windows to rise from last year 's 7% to 28% , Unix to grow from 4% to 10% , OS/2 to rise from 1% to 8% and Windows NT to grow from nowhere to 14% over the five years .
4 Land Securities bucked the market trend , up 7p to 665p over reports that the property sector is on the edge of a strong recovery and a major revaluation .
5 ‘ Before , the tariffs did n't reflect our demand patterns , and the savings averaged have been up to 20% over what they would have been . ’
6 BT fell 4p to 423p over competition worries while Vodafone lost 10p to 500p .
7 BT fell 4p to 423p over competition worries while Vodafone lost 11p to 499p .
8 One company in the food processing and distribution market claimed that it experienced a 50% reduction in absenteeism from 8% to 4% over a three year period .
9 But executive vice-president ACL Wieger Koornstra , speaking in Liverpool today , revealed that ACL cargoes handled by the port could increase by up to 4% over the next year .
10 The Miniphone cellular network has gone into operation in Buenos Aires and some of its suburbs : the network is expected to have 10,000 users within a year , and is being run by Movistar — set up by Telecom Argentina SA , and controlled by STET SpA and France Telecom — and Telefonica Argentina ; initial investment in the project is $42m , but this is expected to rise to $100m over the next three years .
11 For the regional banks the ratio increased from 64% to 68% over the same period .
12 A monthly £200 grows to £3,479.55 over that period .
13 It expects to get venture funding of $2m to $4m over the summer when it will start shipping .
14 Cable & Wireless , whose Mercury subsidiary yesterday heralded a phone war with the introduction of a new service for London , dipped 3p to 848p over fears that the new project might in fact turn out to be a drain on profits .
15 When they took into account prices falling by 2 per cent a year the annual advantage of renting added up to £2,288 over buying .
16 Countries like Britain take that food from where it is needed most to feed to livestock over here .
17 AST now earns 7% of its revenue from open systems business , but is hoping to expand this to 30% over the next three years .
18 The Income & Growth PEP allows you to invest in the Capital House Income & Growth Unit Trust which , despite one of the most difficult periods for stock market investment , has seen an investment of £100 grow to £183 over the last five years — had you been able to invest in the Income & Growth PEP over this period you would have received this return free of all personal taxes .
19 Guinness rose from 534p to 599p over the two days .
20 Temperatures in its waters vary from 0o to 29°C over the year .
21 It hails from a strong mainframe background , which still represents 85% of it sales , though it says it is looking to downsize this commitment to 70% over the next two years .
22 Get talking to people over a few drinks ; you 're better than me at that sort of thing . ’
23 In contrast to fifteen years ago , mortgages are commonly available to people over retirement age .
24 No , he 's alright , but I just hate talking to people over the phone .
25 Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years .
26 Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years .
27 Mr Sugar 's other main company interest , Tottenham Hotspur , was in demand as it climbed 14p to 103p over speculation that chief executive Terry Venables might buy Mr Sugar 's stake in the club .
28 While not giving details of the pricing , he said that the price-performance curve on the 80486 is the basis for pricing of the Pentium and that he expected the sort of dynamic that applied to the 80486 to apply to the Pentium as well — the 80486 being introduced at $900 to $1,000 and falling to $200 over a period of four years — at a rate of 30% per year .
29 Alan now earns $688,513 ( £398,445 ) a year and as the the average dollar rate against the £ rose from $1.84 to $1.73 over the 12 months to 1992 he was quids in .
30 ICI saw turnover fall 3 per cent to £12900m over the year .
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