Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [noun] over the " in BNC.

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1 El Segundo , California-based systems integrator , Computer Sciences Corp , and Sun Microsystems Inc are teaming to offer client/server solutions to aeroplane builders — the two expect to win $80m of business over the next 18 months : CSC won the $3bn , 10-year outsourcing contract with General Dynamics in 1991 .
2 Extrahepatic disorders unrelated to cirrhosis in portal hypertension occur with greater frequency in the elderly : in our experience more than 10% of patients over the age of 65 years with variceal haemorrhage have glucose intolerance requiring treatment with either insulin or oral hypoglycaemic agents .
3 In total , the group has spent £5.1m on acquisitions over the past six months , although it has retained £3m net cash .
4 Secondary education , mainly in schools now known as grammar schools , was available nationally for 20% of children over the age of eleven , with pronounced regional variations .
5 The MoD plans to spend £700m on simulators over the next 10 years , but the report urged them to study the effectiveness of simulator training , and said some are old and outdated .
6 $612,000,000 in compensation over the next 14 years .
7 This represents a difference or rather gross profit of 65p per dozen or £14.98 per bird over the same period .
8 Having fallen back from about 360p to 320p over the last few days , Fisons ' top management was busy round at Hoare Govett yesterday , trying to reassure nervous institutions investors .
9 It expects to get venture funding of $2m to $4m over the summer when it will start shipping .
10 By July 1980 the Midland had agreed to buy a 51% stake for $595m and to buy a further 6% at $225m over the next three years .
11 Malt export sales for delivery over the next twelve months have gone exceptionally well .
12 So , Sir , I have been able to reflect on the inherent good sense of the people of Worcester over the years I have been privileged to be the Member for that constituency .
13 I have had the immense privilege of serving the people of Worcester over the past 30 years .
14 ‘ Do you know , ’ I asked a market trader as I met the fine working people of Motherwell over the weekend , ‘ that this country 's public sector borrowing requirement expressed as a percentage of Gross National Product is running at a completely unacceptable level ? ’
15 The need for properly enforceable means of control over the supervision and maintenance of reservoirs becomes increasingly urgent . ’
16 Unless working-class children are given linguistic means of control over the disciplines of the curriculum , and situations in the outside world , they are unlikely to stand much chance of being upwardly mobile .
17 Westergaard and Resler estimated that in 1970 only 7% of adults over the age of 25 owned shares .
18 Continental units lost $14m on sales of $140m over the last nine months .
19 Encore Computer Corp , Fort Lauderdale , Florida has teamed with New Straits Times Technologies Pvt Ltd of Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia to establish Asia Pacific Encore Pvt Ltd , and looks for it to generate $55m of business over the next five years .
20 A French Basque , Henri Parot , arrested at a routine roadblock outside Seville on April 2 with 300 kg of explosives in his car , admitted that he was the leader of the " itinerant commando " of the Basque separatist organization ETA which had killed at least 33 people in Spain over the past 12 years , including Gen. Victor Lago Roman in Madrid in 1982 [ see p. 32803 ] and the Madrid prosecutor Carmen Tagle on Sept. 12 , 1989 .
21 SOMALIA : Clan warfare and anarchic violence have led to the deaths of more than 10,000 people in Somalia over the past 18 months , according to an Amnesty International report , Somalia : A Human Rights Disaster , published on 5 August .
22 I join the House in expressing sympathy to the families who have been so griveously bereaved through this tragedy , a tragedy that has been the experience of so many of the British people in Ulster over the past 20 years .
23 It must be all or nothing , ’ he declared , appealing to the American people from Korea over the President 's head .
24 Word is circulating that Digital Equipment Corp will be laying off 1,000 software engineering staff in Europe over the next couple of weeks on top of the 6,000 redundancies worldwide that were announced last week .
25 The contrast is most marked in the West Midlands , which has seen the percentage of births jump from 8pc to 20pc over the decade .
26 Guinness rose from 534p to 599p over the two days .
27 He can go to Liam 's people at Hilltown over the mountains .
28 Honda 's confident of creating another eight hundred people at Swindon over the next two years .
29 The 14 Felixstowe club members averaged 14 oz per man over the two legs to the average of four and half oz for the six Clacton members to take the cup .
30 In fact , the courts have progressively narrowed this species of manslaughter over the last century or so : there was a time when the mere commission of a tort or civil wrong sufficed as the ‘ unlawful act ’ , and when there was no additional requirement of ‘ dangerousness ’ to be satisfied .
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