Example sentences of "a excess of [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the year end the group had an excess of liabilities over assets of £2.987m and was in breach of its main banking facilities . |
| 2 | Although the number of births might fall , there was throughout this period an excess of births over deaths — and , indeed , an excess over deaths plus the loss by emigration . |
| 3 | Nevertheless it can come as a shock to a trained accountant to discover that 21 billion of net expenditure is accounted for in this way : no assets ; no liabilities , just an excess of payments over receipts of 20 ; 8 billion compared with a budgeted excess of 20.6 billion . |
| 4 | Similarly , an excess of payments over receipts can not be called a loss because apart from anything else the payments might include the acquisition of assets . |
| 5 | We do not have direct evidence of other galaxies , but it seems likely that they are composed of particles and that in the universe as a whole , there is an excess of particles over antiparticles of about one particle per 10 8 photons . |
| 6 | Because the faculty receives an excess of applications over places available , having the grades listed in the table of course requirements does not mean that a place will necessarily be offered . |
| 7 | If , as seemed likely , one cause of unemployment was an excess of savings over investment , the equalisation of decisions to save and decisions to invest could be brought about by Labour 's plans for progressive taxation which would redistribute income to the poorer sections of society . |
| 8 | An excess of receipts over payments can not be called income because receipts might include capital receipts . |