Example sentences of "[art] number of [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of towns over which low-level flying was banned was increased from 25 to 61 and the hours of low-level flying conducted by the West German Air Force was to be reduced from 23,000 to 21,000 each year , although the number of hours for other NATO air forces remained at 45,000 . |
| 2 | As to the enforcement of lorry weights , we have doubled the number of inspections over the past five years . |
| 3 | I hope to gradually increase the number of pages over the next few issues , if funds allow . |
| 4 | It 's probably the , the simplest illustration is to say that over the last three or four years , we 've moved from being well below S S A to nine point four percent above S S A , now nothing 's changed other than that we 've got a slight decrease in the number of calls over this last two years . |
| 5 | However , since there are more rape trials today than before , the reader of newspapers would find an increase in the number of reports over the years . |
| 6 | By July , the committee reported that in spite of an increase in the number of members over the last quarter , there had been a loss of trade and a decline in share capital . |
| 7 | The Worldwide Fund for Nature is , of course , just one part of a huge international Green Movement , in which we have seen massive increases in the number of supporters over the past few years . |
| 8 | The number of years over which loans could be repaid was a matter for each individual authority , subject to maxima laid down by the Government for given categories of assets . |
| 9 | Firstly , the Festival of Britain in 1951 and the Coronation in 1953 had focused the eyes of the world on Britain 's streets , and the number of tourists over here in those years gradually gave rise to concern over the embarrassment caused by prostitution . |
| 10 | Er , six bytes across the number of characters over the four characters . |
| 11 | On June 24 in Luxembourg EC Social Affairs Ministers reached agreement in principle on introducing a maximum working week of 48 hours across the EC ( although the number of months over which the 48-hour limit should be averaged remained unresolved ) . |
| 12 | Situated on the edge of the attractive village of Tiffield , Ark Farm has evolved from a number of farms over the last 30 years . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ We have had a number of complaints over the last few months . ’ |
| 14 | This seems to be at variance with John Jones where a number of incidents over a period were held to be duplicitously charged as a single count of affray . |
| 15 | But there 've been a number of changes over the years , certainly prior to nineteen seventy four that would be the case , water boards supplying water , local councils treating treating the sewage , and the rivers authorities looking after the river pollution aspects . |
| 16 | The mill had a number of owners over the years , its major business starting when , by the 1860s , it was taken over by Reece and Sandford . |
| 17 | While all kadis were appointed by the state and received allowances , for example , certainly in the period under review only the most important of the muftis received official appointments or salaries ; and indeed , even the salary of the Mufti of Istanbul , until the very end of the period , was considerably smaller than the allowances ( to say nothing of the income ) of a number of kadis over whom he clearly took precedence , the pattern possibly having been established by the perhaps consciously modest demands made by Fahreddin Acemi . |
| 18 | Trial work suggests that the technique has a number of advantages over other forms of injection . |
| 19 | An alternative approach which has a number of advantages over linear control systems , is the switching regulator , or as it is more usually known , the ‘ switch-mode power supply ’ . |
| 20 | Pattern-notes ( sometimes called " mind-maps " ) can fulfil many of your basic requirements of analytical note-making and they have a number of advantages over their over-used linear equivalent . |
| 21 | But Bourdieu 's notion of structure ( partly because it includes agency ) in modernity has a number of advantages over these other analysts . |
| 22 | Special thesaurus software has a number of advantages over the alternative , which is usually the use of a database package or a word processing package to store terms . |
| 23 | The most promising of these techniques , the polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) has a number of advantages over more conventional methods . |
| 24 | Keycard systems hold a number of advantages over traditional cylinder locks for both the guest and the hotelier . |
| 25 | The non-professional also has a number of advantages over professional services . |
| 26 | The charges arose out of deals involving arms and technology purchases by the IAF from US defence contractors and raised a number of questions over Israel 's handling of the annual US military grant worth US$1,800 million . |
| 27 | He had administered the fumes to a number of women over several years with no side-effects . |
| 28 | This was only a temporary setback to the Long March veteran who had survived a number of purges over previous decades when ‘ redness ’ was valued more than ‘ expertise ’ . |
| 29 | This study focuses upon a number of children over a period of up to 40 months beginning early in their final year at school and covering the transitional period that follows . |
| 30 | What is more insidious is the lack of guidance on the levels of accuracy to be expected or , where aggregate data are supplied ( for example , the sum or average of the values at a number of points over an area ) statements about the variability of these values within the area are exceptional . |