Example sentences of "to over [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since only 39 per cent of India 's population is literate , the government authorises the production of posters and other aids which are mailed to over one million addresses . |
| 2 | Since only 39 per cent of India 's population is literate , the government authorises the production of posters and other aids which are mailed to over one million addresses . |
| 3 | We doubled the number of Spend & Save cardholders to over one million by the year end . |
| 4 | I do indeed pay tribute to over one thousand two hundred top business and community leaders who serve on our eighty two training and enterprise councils and who indeed is quite right in er earmarking , do a tremendous amount of work on equal opportunities . |
| 5 | Cynics have suggested that the reason the Nelson Mandela bash attracted so many celebrities , at the expense of the more official Amnesty gig and an earlier AIDS benefit , was because it was televised worldwide to over one billion viewers . |
| 6 | On board will be the British-built instrument that will attempt to answer why the Sun 's outer atmosphere — the corona — is heated to over 1 million degrees , boiling off charged particles to produce the solar wind . |
| 7 | In the past , major criticisms of local government were directed towards : its financial weakness ; the relatively poor calibre of staff for the demanding professional work of modem services ; public apathy and lack of interest ; the inexcusable variations in local standards of basic provision ; and the anomalous division of the country into authorities based on old historical boundaries rather than demographic and economic realities which resulted in a population range of from fewer than 50,000 to over 1 million . |
| 8 | The average gilt ‘ bargain' size has increased from 152,230 in 1980 to over 1 million in 1989 . |
| 9 | Such was the rapid rate of expansion that ensued that the workforce in Britain 's mines rose from a mere 50,000 at the beginning of the nineteenth century to over 1 million on the eve of the First World War . |
| 10 | That adds up to over 50 million a year , half of which are performed illegally . |