Example sentences of "over one [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were also pages of poems forced into some sort of rhyming structure so that they might conceivably have worked as songs , several paragraphs of references to critical works ( Barthes , especially ; Death of the Author ! shouted what looked like a headline over one entire page of notes devoted to ideas about a looseleaf novel/poem ? ? |
| 2 | Labour 's promises were judged by the electorate to be impracticable , and so the Conservatives were returned with a just over one hundred-seat majority . |
| 3 | But there was still an underlying divergence of opinion over one major issue . |
| 4 | Seven million are already HIV infected in sub-Saharan Africa , increasing by over one million a year . |
| 5 | Over one million people in the UK have chronic bronchitis , emphysema , sarcoidosis and other long-term lung diseases . |
| 6 | In December 1985 the long-awaited Fowler review of the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme ( SERPS ) produced only a reduction in the pension benefits rather than an abolition of the scheme ( it is worth noting , however , that the encouragement to leave SERPS for private schemes has had some success ; by mid-1989 over one million people had left ) . |
| 7 | In Nigeria the foreign investors ' share is now about 20 per cent , with the bulk of the remainder held in the Nigerian private sector ; the localization legislation created over one million individual shareholders . |
| 8 | Unemployment thus remained at well over one million ; more than 10 per cent of the workforce . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Over one million tonnes of agricultural related products pass over the quays in Belfast each year . |
| 11 | In 1987 , over one million children were living in families with an unemployed head . |
| 12 | By 2001 there will be over one million people aged 85 and over , representing 13% of all elderly people . |
| 13 | Today we have over one million business accounts , from sole traders to the largest corporations , with the great majority of them receiving financial help from us in one form or another — from a simple overdraft to extremely complex arrangements . |
| 14 | But with over one million people currently on waiting lists around the country , + you may find that the NHS just ca n't treat you as soon as you 'd like . |
| 15 | The cave was formed some time during the early part of the Pleistocene , over one million years ago , and it became filled with sediment during the middle Pleistocene approximately 350 to 400 thousand years ago . |
| 16 | As their retirement counselling manager explained , Legal and General has over one million people either paying towards or drawing out pensions , so it makes sense for them to offer pre-retirement courses which are paid for either by the individuals themselves or their employers . |
| 17 | This is one reason why over one million pensioners who would be entitled to supplementary pension are not claiming , although the benefits are a right , not a charity , and we all pay for them through our taxes . |
| 18 | Cells fitted with diamond windows have been operated at pressures of over one million atmospheres at the Carnegie Institute in Washington . |
| 19 | Some UK sewage farms have run off sludge gas for years , and in China over one million digesters produce methane from human and animal sewage to provide gas for cooking . |
| 20 | Radical historians have stoked the fires , arguing that the bloodthirsty Ustashe slaughtered well over one million Serbs alone . |
| 21 | German Brief , a monthly English language news-letter with a four-page weekly news update , is published by the Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung Informationsdienste , a division of West Germany 's most respected daily and business newspapers with over one million readers . |
| 22 | ‘ Rewards on her total over one million dollars , for offences that range from felony bank robbery to first degree murder . |
| 23 | Over one million of those under the age of 25 are now unemployed and over 300 000 are engaged on the Youth Training Scheme ( Youthaid Bulletin 26 ) . |
| 24 | I was never told exactly how much these tests cost , but I understand it was well over one million dollars and probably nearer two million . |
| 25 | Having seduced over one million new users to OS/2 2.0 with the implication that they should adopt Database Manager with it — it actually came bundled in OS/2 Extended Edition — IBM Corp is planning to replace the database with the one it is developing for AIX , according to Computerworld . |
| 26 | Moreover , recent surveys have suggested that not so many members of these societies are ‘ literate ’ by the standards expected than had previously been assumed : in the UK it is now held that over one million people have an acquaintance with literacy that is insufficient for the demands made on them by this kind of society ( DES , 1980 ) . |
| 27 | Since only 39 per cent of India 's population is literate , the government authorises the production of posters and other aids which are mailed to over one million addresses . |
| 28 | Since only 39 per cent of India 's population is literate , the government authorises the production of posters and other aids which are mailed to over one million addresses . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | By the early 1930s there were half a million , by 1940 over one million . |