Example sentences of "[noun] of [n mass] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er w which in turn is is intended to minimize the loss of staff over the next two years . |
| 2 | Residuals can tell us about the general level of variability of data over and above that accounted for by the fit ; we can judge atypical behaviour against this variability , as measured , for example , by the midspread of the residuals . |
| 3 | He had been asked to make savings of £440,000 over the next three years but says , without more money , police vacancies will be frozen and jobs will be lost . |
| 4 | New survey data often record personal biographies and provide a continuous record of the economic activities of people over several years . |
| 5 | It expects to get venture funding of $2m–$4m over the summer when it will start shipping . |
| 6 | The distortions of communication which occur in these social institutions are as they are , as a result , in part , of unconscious activity of groups of people over time . |
| 7 | The budget totalled $T40,000,000 , a rise of $T2,700,000 over the previous year . |
| 8 | There has been a vast impoverishment of people over the past decades . |
| 9 | THE Bank of England came under strong criticism yesterday from a cross-party committee of MPs over its role in the collapse of the Bank of Credit & Commerce International . |
| 10 | The accumulation of data over a long period of time is a situation that lends itself well to the use of a microcomputer . |
| 11 | Because of the migration of mackerel over the notional dividing line between eastern and western zones , British fishermen had been faced with dwindling numbers of a healthy species . |
| 12 | Thus change in household and housing circumstances of people over the 1970s will be analysed by their characteristics at the earlier census to establish which factors are important in this process . |
| 13 | D. With modern machinery and techniques of building we are capable of making vast changes in a landscape within a very short time and some of these changes may affect the lives of people over large areas or in many different parts of the UK . |
| 14 | But the expedition also gave Gould a greater insight into the distribution of species over all Australia ; it suggested to him , in comparison with his recent knowledge of New South Wales and Van Diemen 's Land , which species might be stationary and which dispersed over a greater area . |
| 15 | It is important to consider the incomes of people over pension age . |
| 16 | The presence of incomers was presented as the most immediate and tangible aspect of the general threat to the Shetland ‘ Way of Life ’ Although Shetland is reputed to be something of a melting pot , given the many different influxes of people over the centuries ( one native council official saw the typical Shetlanders as a bit of a ‘ mongrel ’ ) , these incomers were presumed to be somewhat different : most of them are here because their jobs brought them here ( those who are not here because of their jobs are eccentric ! ) , their stay will be temporary , there are more of them , they represent mainstream and hence dominant ways of life , they regard Shetlanders as peasants or country hicks . |
| 17 | But he knows all kinds of People over there and he 's getting me what I need . |
| 18 | Midland , the only bank to restrict its sending cash abroad service to existing customers , charges £6 on drafts of up to £100 and 0.5 per cent of the sterling value with a minimum charge of £9 over that amount . |
| 19 | Midland , the only bank to restrict its sending cash abroad service to existing customers , charges £6 on drafts of up to £100 and 0.5 per cent of the sterling value with a minimum charge of £9 over that amount . |
| 20 | Midland , the only bank to restrict its sending cash abroad service to existing customers , charges £6 on drafts of up to £100 and 0.5 per cent of the sterling value with a minimum charge of £9 over that amount . |
| 21 | The feeling of staff over this issue had been communicated effectively to management . |
| 22 | One of my best buys was a dovetailer jig costing a little over £100. which represented a saving of £200.00 over the price here . |
| 23 | Internal Delivery Service The internal delivery system by messenger is a consequence of the wide scattering of staff over large areas and different buildings . |
| 24 | Continental units lost $14m on sales of $140m over the last nine months . |
| 25 | Economic growth , at an annual average of 4% over the past five years , is not bad in the circumstances , though not as spectacular as the South-East Asian growth rates that Sri Lanka aspires to emulate . |
| 26 | The five firm concentration ratio has varied around an average of 41% over this period , rising to a peak of 53% in 1978 before falling to 34% in 1980 , rising to 47% in 1983 before declining to 30% in 1990 . |
| 27 | Inserts to b and c show the changes expected in the Pb isotopic composition of a model array of data over a period of 130Myr with μ ( 238 U/ 204 Pb ) values comparable to those found in the erupted basalts . |
| 28 | The concession will save contributor areas a total of £685m over the three years . |
| 29 | Investing instead in a similarly-sized firm that was already traded in the market generated , on average , a profit of 30% over the same period . |
| 30 | Around 1,500 works of art were sold last year with a healthy number of sales over DM50,000 . |