Example sentences of "to [noun] over the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It expects the 78% share of desktops currently running by MS-DOS to fall to 29% by 1997 , the Apple Macintosh to retain a 10% share over the period , Windows to rise from last year 's 7% to 28% , Unix to grow from 4% to 10% , OS/2 to rise from 1% to 8% and Windows NT to grow from nowhere to 14% over the five years . |
| 2 | The Authority allocated £13.75 million pounds to PNP over the four years 1985–9 . |
| 3 | Guinness rose from 534p to 599p over the two days . |
| 4 | They went to Morocco over the 1952 Christmas period , partly because Paul Bowles ' The Sheltering Sky had made Morocco and especially Tangiers the place to go . |
| 5 | Alan now earns $688,513 ( £398,445 ) a year and as the the average dollar rate against the £ rose from $1.84 to $1.73 over the 12 months to 1992 he was quids in . |