Example sentences of "[prep] over [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After over eight years of rule by the strongly pro-US Jamaica Labour Party , a period marked by great hardship as the economy was forcibly ‘ restructured ’ , the February 1989 election returned Michael Manley 's People 's National Party . |
| 2 | Changing the subject slightly the brake pads and linings are showing no signs of any wear after over 24,000 miles . |
| 3 | The failure of the League of Nations in Danzig was a failure of nerve and understanding on the part of the member states : unforgivably they minimised the difficulty and frustrations of the position they had carved for Poland — a country emerging to modernity after over 100 years of partition , a country without financial capital , with hostile neighbours , border problems , huge minorities but without a port of its own . |
| 4 | But the importance of being a woman in the rock arena can not be over-emphasised — even in 1992 , after over 30 years of the genre , it must be celebrated , because the new breed , this new chapter is gaining power , momentum and energy . |
| 5 | I 'll miss football and the day-to-day involvement after over 30 years boy and man . |
| 6 | He replaces Sir Robert Reid who retires in March from his £95,000 a year post after over 40 years in the railway industry . |
| 7 | I remember two of them by heart after over eighty years . |
| 8 | Still popular , and made in new materials with plastic or nylon sail , the Peter Powell kite has introduced millions to the sight of its long tube tails following the looping flight pattern , and still , after over 15 years of its production when all else around has seen so much change , is a firm recommendation for anyone wishing to take up stunt flying for the first time . |
| 9 | This happened , for example , when the chimps were dropped from Brooke Bond tea advertising ; there is still significant ‘ recall ’ of such ancient slogans as ‘ Guinness is good for you ’ and ‘ Persil washes whiter ’ ; people have by now quite out-dated ‘ favourites ’ from campaigns such as that for Heineken lager , and ‘ tick-a tick-a Timex ’ is still remembered after over 25 years . |
| 10 | After two hours Ii managed to get David to sign the papers knowing full well that , after over 12 years of living in those conditions , I would probably want to die myself . |
| 11 | Today I resigned from the staff of the International Monetary Fund after over 12 years , and 1000 days of official Fund work in the field , hawking your medicines and your bag of tricks to governments and to people in Latin America and the Caribbean and Africa . |
| 12 | I understand that recent tests undertaken in Germany by PFI , ( the German equivalent to SATRA , the Northamptonshire based Footwear Technology Centre ) , have shown that after over 600 miles of testing , the Head Anatom revealed a reduction in height of less than a millimetre . |
| 13 | It figures they can get a thousand out over three years . |
| 14 | They figure they can get a thousand out over three years . |
| 15 | If we count cities of over 500,000 inhabitants as ‘ big ’ , fourteen out of twenty-three of them were to be found in five countries , the United Kingdom ( 6 ) , Germany ( 3 ) , France ( 3 ) , Belgium ( 1 ) and Holland ( 1 ) . |
| 16 | Overall , Israel 's absorption of over 100,000 Palestinians as casual labourers created a feeling of weakness and helplessness in the Palestinian community , and of success and power within the Israeli economy . |
| 17 | There may be a case for greater flexibility in the housing market , but a reduced public sector and probable higher housing costs will do little to reduce the national homelessness figures of over 100,000 . |
| 18 | Pomerania , with a population of over 100,000 Polish-speakers , was about 35 per cent Polish , and in spite of the flight from the land and the flight of the population to the industrial centres of the west , Pomerania was one of the few Prussian provinces to show a marked increase in its population , and almost all of that growth was attributed to the Poles . |
| 19 | Snake bites cause the deaths of over 100,000 people every year . |
| 20 | Snake bites cause the death of over 100,000 people every year . |
| 21 | The 1947 Press Commission listed nine with a population of over 100,000 but no paper , and 41 from 50,000 — 100,000 . |
| 22 | Such relative losses of population by the conurbations were paralleled in most large towns of over 100,000 people : during the 1960s their growth was only one-third of the national average ( Champion 1976 ) . |
| 23 | According to their data , the United Mineworkers of America is the ‘ most violent ’ of the larger American trade unions , with 7.36 incidents per 10,000 members during the period studied , compared with an average of 1.2 for twenty major unions with memberships of over 100,000 . |
| 24 | Kohl , in eastern Germany for the first time since the December 1990 general election , was jeered and pelted with eggs by several hundred protesters on April 7 in Erfurt ( where enthusiastic crowds of over 100,000 had greeted him on his last visit in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) . |
| 25 | Privatization was introduced in three stages : ( i ) the removal of obstacles to private enterprise including the returning to private owners of an estimated 70,000 shops and businesses which had been confiscated between 1955 and 1962 ; ( ii ) the auction of over 100,000 state-owned shops , restaurants and workshops beginning on Jan. 26 , 1991 [ see p. 37974 ] ; ( iii ) legislation with effect from April 1 allowing shares in state enterprises to be sold to local and foreign investors [ see p. 38018 ] . |
| 26 | The World Bank has admitted that many of the projects it funded in Brazil during the 1970s and 80s resulted in massive environmental degradation and the eviction of over 100,000 poor farmers and their families , many of whom were forced into the shanty-towns of major cities . |
| 27 | The average circulation of the Daily Worker had risen from 30,000 to 70,000 in the same period , while at weekends and on special occasions sales of over 100,000 had been achieved . |
| 28 | With a capacity of over 100,000 tonnes of methyl methacrylate , ICI is the second biggest producer in Europe , fifth in the world . |
| 29 | This gave an average population density of over 1600 inhabitants per square mile in 1981 . |
| 30 | The problem of high numbers : a military force of over 600,000 would mean a total population of some 2–3 million . |