Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun Microsystems Inc had to do something to prove it 's muscling into retail like Hewlett-Packard Co so it went and sold Dunkin' Donuts $8m worth of IPC machines to network more than half its 1,600 franchise operations over the next four years . |
| 2 | Peruvian jet aircraft on April 24 attacked an unarmed US C-130 transport plane over the Pacific ocean , wounding two of the 16 on board ; a third person was sucked out to his death before the damaged plane managed to land at Tara , 1,000 km north of Lima . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | It is a good idea to lay 500 gauge polythene over the foundation to keep back any rising damp . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Berlin room rates soared by 26% in 1990 and occupancy rates jumped by 9.5 percentage points over the previous year to 80.95% . |
| 7 | The Reserve Bank ( the central bank ) has cut its interest rate by six percentage points over the past year , yet it is still 12% . |
| 8 | Chipping Campden to Bath , a 100 mile route over the Cotswold Hills . |
| 9 | The lowest usable FL on an airway will give 1500 ft clearance over the highest obstruction on the ground . |
| 10 | If we are above government guidelines it is the labour party 's fault and if indeed we are penalised in the future it is the labour party 's fault , none other and to the extent that you run the risk now by having this excess eleven percent budget over the er standing expenditure assessment er will once again unfortunately find you guilty in that regard . |
| 11 | GIGN , with the finish of all but the parachuting stage within sight , gave up all chances to sleep for 58 hours to pull out a three hour lead over the second placed team , L'Arche . |
| 12 | Shortly after this point the road becomes little more than a bridle path or cart track which , however , provides an intriguing pass-walk of about 4 hours duration over the Pragel Pass to Richisau 's alpine pasture leading down to the beautiful Klontal valley in the canton of Glarus . |
| 13 | JE Nicholson ( Points of View , 10 February ) has done more than 5,000 car journeys over the Forth Road Bridge into Edinburgh , only to be habitually overtaken by a man on a tricycle , and has concluded that a new road bridge is not the answer . |
| 14 | Rolls-Royce announced last month 5,000 job losses over the next two years , split between white-collar and production workers . |
| 15 | Apparently at this time Kington was also a popular starting point for tourists to Aberystwyth , with a daily stage coach for the sixty mile journey over the mountains . |
| 16 | An Icelandic request for permission to take an " interim " commercial quota of 192 minke and 91 fin whales over the coming year was rejected . |
| 17 | The positon of the gamma detector was identified by moving a small sealed 9 9 m Tc source over the chest with the subject standing in front of the gammacamera . |
| 18 | Erm we 've got we had two hundred and pounds fifteen pence on deposit which has raised us one pound ten pence interest over the year , leaving us at two hundred and twenty one pounds twenty five pence . |
| 19 | In some universities which were hard hit in the 1981 cuts , the changes were more dramatic ; one university lost 25 and gained 3 degree courses over the period . |
| 20 | The company announced they had secured a Ministry of Defence contract to deliver nearly 2,000 diesel engined Luton built Novas and almost 800 Ellesmere Port-built diesel 1.7 Astra Estates over the next three years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | I started it basically on my own initiative and I said that for six months I would use it on people that I was going to sentence just to maintain a one judge control over the project and see how it was going . |
| 24 | The temperature has risen by around one degree centigrade over the last 150 years . |
| 25 | That 's a suggested figure of twelve thousand seven hundred , which imply a building rate of eight hundred and forty six a year , in comparison with the adopted re er rate in the in the adopted plan of six o six and an actual building rate of seven o one , er my re calculation shows that that would be a thirty nine percent increase , over the adopted plan rate , and a twenty one percent increase over the actual rate . |
| 26 | They have been hard at training ever since their one point victory over the famous Dubs in the semi-final a few weeks ago . |
| 27 | In his sixty-seven wartime broadcasts over the BBC he displayed , for the first time , his formidable communication skills . |
| 28 | Choosing a different route out of Hobart to the rest of the fleet , the yacht quickly established a one mile lead over the nearest rival . |
| 29 | That could fall next time because Huntingdon — with 93,000 voters way over the 69,281 limit — is likely to be split in two . |
| 30 | Scott Reading was the focal point of a close finish as he tried to protect a five shot lead over the closing three ends after fantastic work by Paul Maynard 's rink . |