Example sentences of "[art] excess [prep] [noun] over [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 This argument starts from a different point on the balance of payments circle , with the excess of imports over exports .
2 For i = 1 , … , m , we will write for the excess of requirements over stocks held at site i of some commodity .
3 At the year end the group had an excess of liabilities over assets of £2.987m and was in breach of its main banking facilities .
4 Although the number of births might fall , there was throughout this period an excess of births over deaths — and , indeed , an excess over deaths plus the loss by emigration .
5 Nevertheless it can come as a shock to a trained accountant to discover that 21 billion of net expenditure is accounted for in this way : no assets ; no liabilities , just an excess of payments over receipts of 20 ; 8 billion compared with a budgeted excess of 20.6 billion .
6 Similarly , an excess of payments over receipts can not be called a loss because apart from anything else the payments might include the acquisition of assets .
7 We do not have direct evidence of other galaxies , but it seems likely that they are composed of particles and that in the universe as a whole , there is an excess of particles over antiparticles of about one particle per 10 8 photons .
8 Because the faculty receives an excess of applications over places available , having the grades listed in the table of course requirements does not mean that a place will necessarily be offered .
9 An excess of receipts over payments can not be called income because receipts might include capital receipts .
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