Example sentences of "over [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact sir , the County Council 's figures produced in another appendix , ca n't lay my hands on it at the moment , had put this figure in as three thousand six hundred and fifty , but the nub of those two things are , that over that six month period , we 're not only seeing more houses built but we have more consented , and that has n't affected the residue that appears in the rest of these schedules . |
| 2 | It could mean bringing somewhere between about ten and fifteen million pounds into Shropshire over that six years from Europe , into , into Shropshire , not in the whole of March 's area , but into Shropshire , during that period , to help projects in the rural west of the county . |
| 3 | Erm and then averaging it out over that six seven months . |
| 4 | During the next three years , nearly 10,000 million dollars were made available to Europe in ‘ Marshall Aid ’ , which not only enabled Europe to recover and increase goods and services by twenty-five per cent over that three years , but also ensured a market for American-made goods . |
| 5 | If the client has a salary in excess of forty-five thousand , you still take the seventy-five per cent off the forty-five , but you could then take a third of whatever is over that forty-five . |
| 6 | And in 1958 , when over eight million households had television licences , the various trade associations formed the Film Industry Defence Organization ( FIDO ) in an attempt to ensure that none of the nation 's producers sold their films to television . |
| 7 | You do not need a degree in statistics to see what has happened to the firm 's trading profit over this six year period . |
| 8 | Despite a rise in tax revenue as a proportion of GDP of 4.0% over this thirteen year period , the UK tax burden in 1989 continued to lie well below that in the Scandinavian countries , where over half of GDP was taken in tax and social security contributions in that year , and below other major competitors such as France and Germany . |
| 9 | Isa Blagden found her weeping over this one afternoon and took the time to console her , pointing out that soon , in her new position , Oreste would join her and at two years of age would quickly become hers again . |
| 10 | The first part of our study , which was reported in the October 1992 issue of ACCOUNTANCY ( see p 13 ) , demonstrated that over this five year period the combined effects of mergers among the large audit firms and voluntary auditor switches among listed companies had led to a significant increase in seller concentration . |
| 11 | Over this 3 year period 7 students achieved good degrees and 20 achieved lower seconds . |
| 12 | On impact the fuselage was pitched over some 100 beyond the vertical . |
| 13 | Most of the Cotswold silk trade was carried out at Blockley , over some 200 years . |
| 14 | This study , which derives from previous field research on migrants in Europe , compares British and French experience over some 200 years . |
| 15 | Examples of all types are plentiful in different regions : the long cairn of Balnagowan in Aberdeenshire , fragmented into heaps of stones lined up over some 230 feet ; the well-preserved Clyde cairn of Brackley in Kintyre , excavated in 1952 to reveal both inhumation and cremation procedures , with food vessels and jet necklace beads ; and the protracted cemetery of Nether Largie tombs below Kilmartin village in Argyll . |
| 16 | As a result of subsidence , the ground was one mass of hillocks and hollows , extending in all over some 70 acres . |
| 17 | This is her most ambitious work , surveying the history of European textiles over some 1,000 years , from late Antiquity to the fifteenth century . |
| 18 | This is an impressive donation which has spread over some 50 years and continues today through the support of the Dulverton Trust . |
| 19 | Despite the growth of research into everyday memory and memory in applied settings ( e.g. Gruneberg , Morris & Sykes , 1978 , 1988a , 1988b ) and the research and theorising which has been done over some 50 years on the psychology of driver behaviour , there has been virtually no research which directly looks at memory in driving . |
| 20 | Geology is the study of the Earth and its evolution over some 4,600 million years . |
| 21 | As we have seen from the blueprint of Mrs Thatcher 's Engine Room in table 1 , she now presides over some 160 of the hated things , though not , naturally , in the literal sense of chairing the lot . |
| 22 | The " prologue " ( chapters 1–11 ) provides us with a general history of man over some thousands of years . |
| 23 | But it is as a superb teacher , over some forty years , that Fenton owes his prominence . |
| 24 | The Liberal Democrat government of Kiichi Miyazawa had stated in its budget proposal [ see p. 38820 ] that total government outlays were to increase by only 2.7 per cent over fiscal 1991 , to 72,220,000 million yen , in response to the general worsening in the economic climate . |
| 25 | Lakes across more than 13,000 km² ; are ‘ practically devoid of fish ’ and over another 20,000 km² ; the stocks are reduced . |
| 26 | Farmers over another 22,400 hectares , would merely be given advice and asked to use less fertiliser ; there would be no money for them , and no other sanctions ( The Swells , Gloucestershire ; Bircham and Fring , Norfolk ; Sedgeford , Norfolk ; Fowlmere , Cambs ; Far Baulker , Notts ; Dotton and Colaton , Devon ; Cringle Brook , Lincs and Leics ; and Bourne Brook , Warwicks ) . |
| 27 | He started his first season on the professional circuit by winning 21 of his first 24 matches , reaching the final of the Asian Open in his native Bangkok in August , with three wins over top 10 players before losing to Stephen Hendry . |
| 28 | And now he 's running against that plan and under the law , section fifty four over ninety one that er of the ninety act , he is now obliged to refer it to the Secretary of State . |
| 29 | That 's well over three thousand miles and God knows what the roads are like south of Valparaíso , if there are any . |
| 30 | Since that date the number of jobs in the service sector has risen by over three million . |