Example sentences of "to [n mass] over the " in BNC.

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1 Having fallen back from about 360p to 320p over the last few days , Fisons ' top management was busy round at Hoare Govett yesterday , trying to reassure nervous institutions investors .
2 Even with a £30,000 loan , a customer could have saved up to £2,600 over the last five years .
3 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 .
4 But executive vice-president ACL Wieger Koornstra , speaking in Liverpool today , revealed that ACL cargoes handled by the port could increase by up to 4% over the next year .
5 The Miniphone cellular network has gone into operation in Buenos Aires and some of its suburbs : the network is expected to have 10,000 users within a year , and is being run by Movistar — set up by Telecom Argentina SA , and controlled by STET SpA and France Telecom — and Telefonica Argentina ; initial investment in the project is $42m , but this is expected to rise to $100m over the next three years .
6 For the regional banks the ratio increased from 64% to 68% over the same period .
7 It expects to get venture funding of $2m to $4m over the summer when it will start shipping .
8 AST now earns 7% of its revenue from open systems business , but is hoping to expand this to 30% over the next three years .
9 The Income & Growth PEP allows you to invest in the Capital House Income & Growth Unit Trust which , despite one of the most difficult periods for stock market investment , has seen an investment of £100 grow to £183 over the last five years — had you been able to invest in the Income & Growth PEP over this period you would have received this return free of all personal taxes .
10 Guinness rose from 534p to 599p over the two days .
11 Temperatures in its waters vary from 0o to 29°C over the year .
12 It hails from a strong mainframe background , which still represents 85% of it sales , though it says it is looking to downsize this commitment to 70% over the next two years .
13 No , he 's alright , but I just hate talking to people over the phone .
14 Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years .
15 Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years .
16 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 .
17 ICI saw turnover fall 3 per cent to £12900m over the year .
18 Japan 's 4,000km expressway system is to be lengthened to 11,500km over the next ten years .
19 The contrast is most marked in the West Midlands , which has seen the percentage of births jump from 8pc to 20pc over the decade .
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