Example sentences of "[noun] of [num] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most spectacular case where the government lost control of the timetable was in the spring of 1969 over the Parliament ( No. 2 ) — House of Lords Reform — Bill . |
| 2 | The crime rate was reported on July 6 , 1990 , to have risen by 11.9 per cent over the previous year , and on Oct. 25 , 1991 , to have risen by 10.9 per cent in the first nine months of 1991 over the same period in 1990 . |
| 3 | Instead of staring blankly out at the world , or nervously striking at the fence , as some of the eagles did , he trekked back and forth in a figure of eight over an area that was only one tiny part of his caged area . |
| 4 | It had been planned to take the aircraft up to 5,000ft and carry out some general handling checks , but I never got up that high , consequently I ended up doing a figure of eights over Duxford at 300ft . |
| 5 | The team continued to astound with their attacking flair and sound defence , treating the home crowd to wins of 5–1 over Plymouth , 10–1 over Croydon Common and 7–1 over New Brompton . |
| 6 | There had been a " partial agreement " with the Vatican since 1964 [ see p. 20341 ] , which itself had helped improve relations following the conflicts of 1949-50 over the secularization of schools and enforced closure of certain religious orders [ see pp. 9721-22 ; 11259 ] . |
| 7 | A total of 9,376 were without work , a rise of 12 over September . |
| 8 | Plans for the better distribution of population and employment were still needed , but one academic observer reported in 1957 : After 13 years the Conservatives lost office ; in the general election of October 1964 Harold Wilson won power with a slender majority of four over the other parties . |
| 9 | After a high turnout poll , Mr Ashdown retained the Somerset seat with 30,950 votes , a majority of 8,833 over the Tories — an increase of 3,133 on 1987 . |
| 10 | But the sad experiences of thousands over the past three years show that home ownership is not always a path to happiness and contentment . |
| 11 | All three came in with two under par rounds of 73 over the Royal Lytham and St Annes on a day when only eight players bettered a demanding par . |
| 12 | MICHAEL ROBERTS was in form at Pontefract yesterday , rattling off a 959-1 treble to make 190 — a lead of 30 over Pat Eddery . |
| 13 | NEW ZEALAND off-spinner Dipak Patel captured a Test best 6–113 as the Kiwis took a first-innings lead of 106 over Zimbabwe , bowled out for 219 in Bulawayo . |
| 14 | On this issue the debate between T. H. Huxley and Bishop Wilberforce at the British Association meeting of 1860 over the significance of Darwin 's recently published The Origin of Species has entered into our mythology . |
| 15 | On the following day Jack still seemed to be sleep-walking his way around the course and I was not surprised when he visited the water a couple of times and eventually handed in a score of two over par . |
| 16 | A Super Bowl winner with the Chicago Bears seven years ago , McMahon 's won-lost record of 58–25 over his 11-year career is bettered only by Joe Montana and Mark Rypien . |
| 17 | The Sparc Vector II processor is claimed to boost vector performance of the superserver product by a factor of four over the previous S-MP vector module . |
| 18 | The characteristics are approximated by the sinusoidal functions : The effect of exciting a pair of phases together is shown in Fig. 3.6(b) where the peak static torque is improved by a factor of 1–4 over one-phase-on excitation — For phases A and B excited by positive current the total torque is : and similarly for other phase combinations . |
| 19 | A Home Office statistical bulletin said nationally police recorded an 11pc increase in offences in the last quarter of 1991 over the same period in 1990 . |
| 20 | Later figures showed that for the whole of 1922 over twice as much grain was transported by rail and waterways as in 1921 . |
| 21 | Dick Allan 's charge , a useful hurdler rated in the mid 120s , has crept in on a mark of 86 over fences after an unenterprisingly-ridden second at Catterick . |
| 22 | It was only a minimal drop of 242 over last year , but 3,580 fewer than 1989 . |
| 23 | We assessed all curettings ( not related to pregnancy ) received from women under the age of 40 over a seven month period ; 13% had minor abnormalities , including simple hyperplasia and chronic endometritis . |
| 24 | On Feb. 26 , 1991 , the Anglo-Dutch food and cleaning products company , Unilever , announced that it would be cutting 5,500 jobs from a total workforce of 110,000 over the next three years . |
| 25 | Commodore sold a staggering amount of 64s over the Christmas/January sales period , the majority of which being the Terminator 2 packs ( which came with a T2 cart , but no cassette deck ) . |
| 26 | The company has dropped strong hints to union leaders that the current programme involving cuts of 24,000 over the next year will be followed by a further rundown , although at a lower rate . |
| 27 | IT WAS Robert Dunlop at the treble in to-day 's Coca Cola North West 200 watched by a crowd of 60,000 over the Portstewart-Coleraine-Portrush circuit . |
| 28 | Despite the need to return to a monetary economy under the liberal market conditions of NEP , by the end of 1922 over onethird of total revenue still came in the form of taxes in kind . |
| 29 | His wife Eleanor snapped in the summer of 1991 over his affair with widow Georgina Gillan but all bitterness is now forgotten and they are together again . |
| 30 | 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 . |