Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun sg] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economists estimated that the rate of inflation had increased to 20 per cent during fiscal 1989 , an increase of 1.5 percentage points over the previous year . |
| 2 | As a 19 year old Flight Engineer , he was already a veteran of 12 bomber sorties over Germany . |
| 3 | As a 19 year old Flight Engineer , he was already a veteran of 12 bomber sorties over Germany . |
| 4 | On the morning of the election , the nearest of all the major opinion polls to a correct result was Gallup in The Daily Telegraph , which put the Tories half a point ahead of Labour ( 38½ per cent to 38 per cent , a change-round of one percentage point over the course of the preceding week ) . |
| 5 | The various regional associations which were formed at various times in Eastern and Western Europe , in Africa , in the Middle East or in Latin America , rested either upon the predominance of one nation state over others in the region , or upon a limited agreement about a framework within which national economic interests could be more effectively pursued ; and they all showed themselves largely incapable of controlling the vigorous expression of such interests in periods of crisis . |
| 6 | The building has a large narthex extending the whole width of the church with three saucer domes over it . |
| 7 | he 's being a zombie , so he 's coming downstairs with two sleeping bags over the top of his head and knocking everything over , just look at it |
| 8 | Until changes which came in the wake of the First World War , in which the scions of landed families fell alongside the sons of tenant farmers in the trenches by the Somme , such tenancies , to judge from the evidence , commonly remained in one farming family over several generations . |
| 9 | from two jerry cans over the bodies |
| 10 | Local authorities are urged that they should collect methane from 1,000 landfill sites over the next five years . |
| 11 | To make things even easier , if you have a preference for one font system over the other , in any font dialogue box within DW1.2 , ATM fonts are noted as such , with the ATM symbol , and TrueType fonts are annotated with the ‘ TT ’ symbol . |
| 12 | The Jonathan Wren survey is more modestly based on 453 City placements over the past six months ; but these , too , show much bigger increases achieved by mobile fund managers ( over 26 per cent , with an average salary of over £50,000 ) than messengers ( less than 10 ½ per cent , with an average salary of under £7,000 ) . |
| 13 | SSSIs notified by NCC were also the subject of retained prior approval arrangements as for National Parks but , with the advent of the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act , all SSSIs notified under its Section 28 are subject to 3 month consultation over any activities specified on a list of Damaging Operations notified with each SSSI . |
| 14 | As New South Wales was the only state without an ALP government , the Liberal-National coalition was widely expected to benefit from the current unpopularity of the Hawke government , an expectation apparently supported by opinion polls published during the campaign which gave the coalition a lead of up to 16 percentage points over Labor . |
| 15 | It means it will be no treatment for 150 routine patients over the last 5 weeks , and that starts on Monday . |
| 16 | It means it will be no treatment for 150 routine patients over the next 5 weeks . |
| 17 | Ideally , dosing should be at three week intervals over May and June and it is unwise to await the appearance of clinical signs of diarrhoea before administering the drugs . |
| 18 | NeXT says it also has a $3m contract for 400 NeXTstation computers over the next 18 months from Mobil Oil Corp 's Mobil Sales & Supply Corp , which wants them to serve as traders ' workstations . |
| 19 | The Reserve Bank ( the central bank ) has cut its interest rate by six percentage points over the past year , yet it is still 12% . |
| 20 | Berlin room rates soared by 26% in 1990 and occupancy rates jumped by 9.5 percentage points over the previous year to 80.95% . |