Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [n mass] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Audrey Hamilton , 35 , of Barnett Crescent , Kirkcaldy , and John Watson , of Simpson Court , Crail , each sued Fife Health Board for £20,000 over the death of their son , David , in 1976 . |
| 2 | Audrey Hamilton , 35 , of Barnett Crescent , Kirkcaldy , and John Watson , of Simpson Court , Crail , each sued Fife Health Board for £20,000 over the death of their son , David , in 1976 . |
| 3 | Proceeding with due caution therefore , we can ask : what do we know about patterns of support between kin over the past two centuries ? |
| 4 | Er w which in turn is is intended to minimize the loss of staff over the next two years . |
| 5 | It expects to get venture funding of $2m–$4m over the summer when it will start shipping . |
| 6 | The budget totalled $T40,000,000 , a rise of $T2,700,000 over the previous year . |
| 7 | There has been a vast impoverishment of people over the past decades . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Fish , which in the cold European waters are sluggish and easily caught , often provide the staple for mink over the winter . |
| 10 | LSI estimates its floating point at 15% over the existing LSI part and 25% better than competitors ' . |
| 11 | THERE 'S been a revolution in media over the last few years and it 's going to continue at an ever-increasing pace for sometime to come . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It hails from a strong mainframe background , which still represents 85% of it sales , though it says it is looking to downsize this commitment to 70% over the next two years . |
| 15 | The concession will save contributor areas a total of £685m over the three years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | SunSoft has enhanced Solaris 2.0 to 2.2 ( though it 's not officially calling it that ) boosting symmetric multiprocessing performance by 60% over the previous version as measured on an eight-way system . |
| 18 | The Bristol-based Frenchay Healthcare Trust , said the 89 job losses were needed to help cut spending by £2.3m over the next year . |
| 19 | Cubitt 's greatest savagery was reserved for the ‘ Meeting-House Gallery ’ ’ which he described as ‘ about the crudest attempt ever made at providing seats for a certain number of people over the heads of the rest ’ , a ‘ failure practically , and a horror artistically ’ , ‘ uncouth ’ and a ‘ gigantic misfit ’ . |
| 20 | And the numbers of elderly people are on a steep increase : the number of people over the age of 85 will double to one million by the year 2000 . |
| 21 | One of the major changes to which our society must give meaning is the increasing number of people over the age of retirement , especially those in their 80s and 90s . |
| 22 | Though the number of people over the age of 65 is predicted not to increase over the next 10 years and to rise slowly thereafter , the profile of this group will change considerably . |
| 23 | Revenue from sales of personal computer X server packages rose to $33m , a growth of 217% over the 1991 figure . |
| 24 | Coutts had considered Virgin 's request to exceed their overdraft by £200,000 over the next seven days . |
| 25 | C&P 's north-east distribution department has reviewed the performance of its contract hauliers and , by making improvements and efficiencies , is instigating a programme which will save the Company between £10-12m over the next three years . |
| 26 | One of the latest to succeed in that direction are Harlequins with the announcement of help to the tune of £350,000 over the next four seasons from Flowering Original , an offshoot of the Whitbread beer company , which already sponsors the Welsh Heineken Leagues . |
| 27 | The hourly rate for doctors called on occasionally was set at £93 , an increase of 12% over the old fee . |
| 28 | As an alternative to the cash dividend the Board is proposing that an enhanced scrip dividend is offered to shareholders whereby they may elect to receive new ordinary shares with a value of 10.65 pence per share , an increase of 50% over the proposed final cash dividend . |
| 29 | Although tax consultancy fee income rose by 3% to £105m , this compares with a total increase of 134% over the previous three years . |
| 30 | The 25th FAO conference in Rome in November 1989 adopted a regular budget of US$569,000,000 for 1990/91 , an increase of $77,000,000 over the previous biennium [ see p. 36957 ] . |