Example sentences of "[vb pp] over [num] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surveys over the last two decades , in America at least , have typically reported over 80 per cent of workers being ‘ satisfied ’ with their jobs ( Hackman and Oldham 1980 , 10 ) . |
| 2 | It must be considered extremely fortunate that the first preparations of the sodium salt of penicillin , which although of great antibacterial activity contained over 99 per cent of impurities , showed so little toxicity . |
| 3 | Hearn and Doyle , whose players won over 70 per cent of the prize money on the WPBSA circuit last year , would rather see greater efficiency and cost effectiveness . |
| 4 | Ershad 's Jatiya Party won over 10 per cent of the seats , including that won by Ershad himself ( who was under arrest and facing serious corruption charges ) in his home district of Rangpur . |
| 5 | In the contests for around 52,000 seats on over 2,300 local councils , Solidarity-backed Citizens ' Committees won over 41 per cent of the seats nationwide and performed strongly in the main cities , making a virtually clean sweep in Gdansk , Krakow and Wroclaw and taking nearly 90 per cent in Warsaw , the capital . |
| 6 | The SPÖ won 47.7 per cent of the vote and 52 seats ( 54.9 per cent and 62 seats at the last elections in November 1987 — see p. 35792 ) ; the FPÖ won 22.6 per cent and 23 seats ( 9.7 per cent and eight seats in 1987 ) ; the Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) won 18.1 per cent and 18 seats ( 28.4 per cent and 30 seats in 1987 ) ; and the Green Alternatives won over 9 per cent and thus entered the parliament for the first time with seven seats ( having won just under 5 per cent in 1987 ) . |
| 7 | In 1974–79 , the inflation rate averaged over 15 per cent . |
| 8 | Available UK coal stocks may last another three to four hundred years , North Sea gas used at current levels another 30 years , and we have already used over 40 per cent of North Sea oil . |
| 9 | By 1983 , unemployment had reached over 12 per cent , and long-term unemployment ( defined as being without work for over a year ) had emerged as a significant economic and social issue . |
| 10 | At the turn of the century government expenditure as a proportion of G N P amounted to roughly 10 per cent ; by 1970 this figure had reached over 40 per cent . |
| 11 | By the end of 1981 over 350,000 Apple IIs had been purchased ; the company had experienced over 100 per cent growth annually and continues to enjoy a similar growth pattern . |
| 12 | A combination of cars and aircraft provided over 80 per cent of passenger transport in Western Europe and over 95 per cent in the United States . |
| 13 | Once it entered low mountain cloud , production of acids increased 14-fold and fallout increased over 200 per cent . |
| 14 | The overall level of support for independence among the republics ' ethnic-Russian and other minorities was higher than expected , especially in Latvia ( minorities constituted over 36 per cent of Estonia 's population and around 47 per cent of Latvia 's ) . |
| 15 | There is no doubt that the FMC which , by 1980 , represented over 80 per cent of Cuban women , has done much to improve opportunities for women and , above all , to give them dignity and respect in society . |
| 16 | By the late S the CNES annual budget still hovered just below I billion dollars , but this relatively modest sum represented over 40 per cent of Europe 's total expenditure on space . |
| 17 | By 1975 local expenditure represented over 20 per cent of GNP in Scandinavian countries and had been increasing substantially in other parts of Europe ( Newton 1980:8 — 9 ) . |
| 18 | Put another way , 25 per cent of the population are spread over 90 per cent of the land area , or that while the average density is 2.4 people per hectare , the median density is only 0.5 people per hectare . |
| 19 | The catastrophic effects of the most recent drought can be gauged fact that in 1967 the country imported over 30 per cent of its food requirements and yet only seven years later this figure had risen to a colossal 96.5 per cent in what is nominally an agrarian economy . |
| 20 | These trees were managed to provide poles for the hop industry , but hop-growing is in decline in Sussex , the area of hops having fallen over 40 per cent . |
| 21 | He had received over 80 per cent . |
| 22 | Three questions — on British membership of the League , multilateral disarmament , and the world-wide prohibition of the private manufacture and sale of armaments — received over ninety per cent support . |
| 23 | Results of the first round indicated that the PLA had obtained over 60 per cent of the vote and had won 160 seats outright , even before the run-off elections . |
| 24 | The Assembly had 386 seats and under the country 's complex electoral system ( approved in October 1989 — see p. 36961 ) , there were 176 single-member constituencies , where results were decided either by overall majority in the first round , or in a second round to which candidates would go forward if they finished in the top three or obtained over 15 per cent of the vote . |
| 25 | The advantages possessed by incumbents within the US political system , particularly the disparities in the levels of campaign funds available , meant that most governors and federal legislators — current estimates suggested over 95 per cent — could expect to win re-election . |
| 26 | A court in the Chinese city of Shanghai sentenced Li Xinghua for disfiguring Pan Ping , 24 , who was burned over 30 per cent of her body , including her face . |