Example sentences of "[adv prt] over [num] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using this combined treatment regime , the patients experienced considerable improvement in their condition in over 80 per cent of the cases , and most of this was achieved within two weeks . |
| 2 | Kiernan , Reid and Jones ( 1979 ) indicate its use in over 80 per cent of schools for children with severe learning disabilities . |
| 3 | Reflecting this gendered division of care , in over 80 per cent of households , women are ‘ mainly responsible for general domestic duties ’ , which include cleaning , washing and ironing , shopping and cooking ( Jowell et al . , |
| 4 | The spread , too , of remote controls — again , in over 40 per cent of households — enables people to ‘ zap ’ commercials or whole commercial breaks . |
| 5 | This is happening in over ten per cent of all the cases that are coming up before your agency or your government 's agency , whereby a working parent so-called absent according to you , is supporting not only his children , his ex-wife , or his e if it 's if it 's the husband supporting |
| 6 | This method of acupuncture is also of value in over 60 per cent of cases of multiple sclerosis . |
| 7 | If a man is suspected of having gonorrhoea , examination of the discharge from his urethra will demonstrate the organism in over 90 per cent of the cases when it is there . |
| 8 | Set up in 1991 , the service has received requests for traces from over 15,000 people and possible pension source has been located in over 90 per cent of cases . |
| 9 | While it is clear that an enormous range of interest groups exist in Japan , few would argue that small firms , non-unionized labour ( who make up over 70 per cent of the total ) , minority groups or the elderly have the same continuous access to the state as do large companies . |
| 10 | Dairy products make up over 20 per cent of our calories and they also provide over 20 per cent of our protein intake and much of our calcium . |
| 11 | Ethnic Croats and Muslim Slavs , who together make up over 60 per cent of Bosnia 's population , support independence while minority Serbs have vowed to fight to retain links with Serbia , which borders Bosnia to the east . |
| 12 | As women make up over 60 per cent of these categories their position in the labour market is not well represented by the wage structure data . |
| 13 | The number of exceedances of the eight-hour air quality standard decreased by over 80 per cent during this same period but , even so , 41 areas failed to meet the air quality standard in 1988–9 . |
| 14 | The contrast is even more marked when one examines the exports in detail ; those by denizens fell by only 2 per cent , those by Hansard merchants actually rose by over 6 per cent , while those by other aliens fell by over 77 per cent . |
| 15 | Industrial output fell by over 11 per cent in the course of the 1979 — 83 Parliament , a performance worse than in other western states which also suffered from the recession . |
| 16 | Between 1981 and 1986 , real average personal disposable incomes fell by over 17 per cent . |
| 17 | Turnover fell by over 60 per cent in the body plant in the same period , though it should be noted that unemployment was rising in Sweden and therefore turnover rates in SAAB as a whole were falling , though less fast than in the body shop . |
| 18 | Over a ten year period , drink related road traffic deaths fell by over 60 per cent in the UK and by a similar percentage in Germany . |
| 19 | The US economy grew by over 2 per cent last year , with growth in the final quarter revised up to an annual rate of 4.75 per cent . |
| 20 | During the decade 1831–41 , the number of those living in industrial towns increased by over 40 per cent , and the population of England was , for the first time , dominantly urban . |
| 21 | The firearms death rate among teenagers increased by over 40 per cent between 1984 and 1988 . |
| 22 | Typically overheating by 1°C increases energy consumption by 7 per cent , and so heating a building to 22°C rather than the statutory maximum of 19°C increases the amount of energy used by over 20 per cent . |
| 23 | In the event , absenteeism in the body plant actually rose by over 20 per cent over the seven-year period spanning the installation of the line-out system , though this was a smaller rise than in the press and the paint plants adjacent to the body shop . |
| 24 | One calculation , for example , showed that while the occupied population increased by 35 per cent between 1911 and 1966 , the real value ( at constant factor price ) of the national income increased by over 150 per cent ( Bacon et al. |
| 25 | The package was less comprehensive than had been expected , however , for observers agreed that the options available to Lee were restricted by sharply rising inflation ( consumer prices rose by over 3 per cent in the first quarter of 1990 ) which precluded any general reduction in interest rates . |
| 26 | The contrast is even more marked when one examines the exports in detail ; those by denizens fell by only 2 per cent , those by Hansard merchants actually rose by over 6 per cent , while those by other aliens fell by over 77 per cent . |
| 27 | However , there is a growing list of other uses , such as chemicals used in optoelectronic devices or liquid crystal displays , and this category is forecast to expand by over 50 per cent to $396m in 1995 . |
| 28 | After the previous year saw a fall in the number of cases involving disputes with members of the Investment Managers Regulatory Organisation handled by the Investment Ombudsman , the number increased by over 50 per cent in 1992/3 according to his annual report . |
| 29 | The number of pure holiday visitors from the Republic increased by over 50 per cent . |
| 30 | Using the same analysis as Government statisticians , the figures show that over the period 1979 to 1988 , real disposable incomes rose by over 30 per cent . |