Example sentences of "over seven " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the CDU votes went instead to the ultra right-wing Republicans who polled over seven per cent in the bigger cities with problems of unemployment , the housing shortage and a high percentage of foreign immigrants . |
| 2 | In the Icelandic centre the weather was worse , with snow drifting to over seven metres , and temperatures down around — 2O°C ( — -4°F ) to act as a good prelude to wind-chill calculations . |
| 3 | At Aintree he beat The Thinker just over seven lengths and is due to meet him on the same terms , although Jimmy Frost , his rider , may put up a pound or two more than the minimum 10st . |
| 4 | Foster did well as nightwatchman but otherwise only Gooch , in one of his slowest innings , stood firm ; he batted over seven hours with the ball moving around awkwardly and had 84 to his name when he was last out , having seen the total to 202 . |
| 5 | The campaign waged by both public and hospital staff was one of the biggest in east London 's political history : over seven hundred people at the York Hall , the old boxing venue , twenty thousand signed petitions , a two-hour protest strike and the first-ever hospital work-in , which kept the hospital running for a month and treated eleven hundred emergencies after its official date of closure . |
| 6 | Many girls said to me that you never recover from anorexia or bulimia or compulsive eating , but having suffered from all three for over seven years , I can say very strongly that this need not be true . |
| 7 | On Friday , Heron 's 82 banks saw the result : a request for a rescheduling backed by a plan to liquidate £1 billion worth of property over seven years . |
| 8 | This year 's Greenham will be a fascinating trial as Magic Ring , trained by Paul Cole , has reportedly worked impressively at home but will be tested fully over seven furlongs on ground that yesterday proved a stumbling block to many . |
| 9 | Within five years they were carrying over seven million passengers a year . |
| 10 | Almost $700 million had been invested over seven years in such things as home insulation , efficient lighting systems and triple glazing , resulting in a saving of 220 HW of electricity , about the output of a small power station . |
| 11 | When they open an account they 'll receive a free account opening pack and , if they are over seven , they 'll also become members of the Barclays Supersavers Club and they 'll receive regular copies of the club magazine . |
| 12 | However , throughout the period November to February flocks of 500 or more are regularly present , and the average of all counts in this period between 1964 and 1976 was over seven hundred . |
| 13 | The route would take the herd over seven , as yet unbridged , canals . |
| 14 | This is true , but do not forget that he spent many hours a day thinking about his problem over seven years . |
| 15 | He could come out and jump well over seven metres on no training at all . |
| 16 | The estimated £2.5 million development covered an area of over seven acres . |
| 17 | Early on , however , the forerunner of the modern House of Lords emerged from the Council around the monarch and it is now over seven centuries since commoners of England ( albeit of no more lowly status than the county squirearchy ) were admitted to the Parliament of England . |
| 18 | Man-made fibres and plastic sheeting have long since replaced the porous cambric or fine cotton linen which had been the standard material for sails over seven decades . |
| 19 | ‘ Eric ’ Taylor , Malta 's current leading ‘ ace ’ with over seven victories , was last seen on the tail of a Stuka with a Bf109E on his own tail ; he did not return either , and was reported dead when his ‘ Mae West ’ was washed ashore with a cannon shell hole in the centre of the chest . |
| 20 | Fleming 's notes , compiled over seven years , detail Bond 's thoughts on subjects ranging from drink and sex to gambling and fast cars . |
| 21 | Fleming 's notes , compiled over seven years , detail Bond 's thoughts on subjects ranging from drink and sex to gambling and fast cars . |
| 22 | Vic Glaydon with a flounder weighing just over seven oz won the match but the next two places were filled by Felixstowe members . |
| 23 | Mrs Bauwens will seek a retrial of a case that cost £250,000 over seven dramatic days at the High Court . |
| 24 | She was ridden by Pat Eddery over seven furlongs , but it was Willie Ryan 's mount Musicale , who came out on top . |
| 25 | He 's been beating Selkirk and over seven furlongs . ’ |
| 26 | Hence the landing of the Imperial Guards to dilute the acid of resistance , and allow over seven hundred Space Marines led by Lord Vladimir Pugh to spearhead a fierce organised drive against the capital and the praetorian troopers , with whom they would cope . |
| 27 | Orcs vary in height and their physical appearance more than humans — some are no taller than a man but most are substantially larger and the biggest Orcs stand well over seven feet tall . |
| 28 | I told you when I rote that it was impossible for me to pay anything , as he was allowed by the parish when he was at Muggerhanger , and I told you I had my daughter on my hands for over seven years , and I have been doctering her all the time so I think you will consider the matter over and no that I can not help in any way , and in any case 4s. is a lot of money to pay a week . |
| 29 | Looking down on the land over seven miles below from the lofty heights where jet streams vaporize behind you , it was hard to imagine the difficulties the old man must have faced . |
| 30 | It starts with about $380m over five years to help national authorities exchange information in areas such as taxes and export controls , says national governments would have to provide at least $6,700m over five years , it said , and wants another $7,900m or so over seven years to help all the Community 's backward regions to build up their telecommunications and computer infrastructures ; it says helpfully that loans will be available from the European Investment Bank to help with the effort . |