Example sentences of "[adj] over and above " in BNC.

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1 On Thursday , facing uproar on all sides of the Commons , Mr Major ordered that the mess be sorted out and Downing Street duly declared that there would be extra money for the poor over and above RPI uprating and that it had all been planned before the Budget .
2 This has involved non-recurrent additions of £2m in 1991–2 , and £1.5m in 1992–3 and 1993–4 over and above its recurrent baseline of £3m .
3 In this cake-and-eat-it arrangement , no one possessor could sell off the estate , yet in Johnson 's view , the landowner should have enough over and above the inheritance to bargain with , should he need to raise cash by sale or mortgage , but never so much as to disinherit his succeeding generations .
4 This rise in consumption will create a further increase in income in the next period of £1.2 million over and above the initial increase and this in turn will bring forth more consumption spending .
5 In 1992/93 each single person was , for example , given an allowance of 3,445 ; married couples were given an additional allowance of 1,720 over and above the single allowance and pensioners were given even higher allowances .
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