Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] over [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin ( 1988 ) aggregates employment in a wider group of growth sectors and calculates that the South East region 's share of employment is over 41 per cent , with East Anglia and the South West together claiming over 10 per cent more . |
| 2 | Available UK coal stocks may last another three to four hundred years , North Sea gas used at current levels another 30 years , and we have already used over 40 per cent of North Sea oil . |
| 3 | Dairy products make up over 20 per cent of our calories and they also provide over 20 per cent of our protein intake and much of our calcium . |
| 4 | ‘ In which case I will automatically take over sixty per cent of the assets . |
| 5 | Surveys over the last two decades , in America at least , have typically reported over 80 per cent of workers being ‘ satisfied ’ with their jobs ( Hackman and Oldham 1980 , 10 ) . |
| 6 | A quarter of the sixth formers take A-level art , frequently gaining over 80 per cent A-grades . |
| 7 | Most LDCs experience at regular intervals external current account ( deficit ) problems due to a lack of diversified exports and/or deteriorating terms of trade because many obtain more than 50 per cent of their export earnings from one or two products , e.g. Zambia regularly obtains over 90 per cent of its foreign exchange earnings from copper . |
| 8 | By the spring of 1985 , 4.5 million , or 21.7 per cent of all those in employment , were in part-time jobs , and the UK currently employs over 40 per cent of all part-time workers in the EEC ( Income Data Services Part-timers , Temps and Job Sharers , April 1985 ) . |