Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign contributions already received amounted to over $46,000 million and the total foreign commitment came to $54,000 million , with 96 per cent of the outstanding amount being due from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait , already the largest contributors with payments of $12,700 million and $12,500 million respectively . |
| 2 | The supply from waste/recycled resources is expected to increase to over 70% of regional aggregates consumption by 2011 . |
| 3 | Their numbers have grown by more than a third since 1979 , while the number of self-employed people has grown to over 12 per cent of the workforce . |
| 4 | Our Wood News Correspondent for ESP , reports that since the acquisition of TSS , they are now doing business internationally : ‘ All our products and services are available worldwide and we now have representatives in Canada , Indonesia , India , Japan , the Middle East and South America , in addition to our US workforce which has grown to over 260 employees . ’ |
| 5 | SINCE ITS inception , CCG 's Provinces Division has grown to over two dozen contracts in just 18 months , reaching from Bournemouth to Folkestone on the south coast up to Birmingham and the South Midlands . |
| 6 | Today it has risen to over 40 per cent in Britain , Scandinavia , and North America , and 30 per cent in France , in contrast to less than 7 per cent in China and Japan . |
| 7 | The former Digital Equipment Corp plant in Springfield , Massachusetts is host to a new company formed and staffed by former DEC staffers , SpringBoard Technology Corp , which will specialise in the refurbishing and low-volume manufacturing of tape drives , disk drives and modules : SpringBoard is scheduled to open on May 24 and is expected to grow to over 100 staff . |
| 8 | An error on the monthly computer tape supplied by Penguin to Whitaker Bibliographic Services has led to over 2,000 Penguin titles being wrongly designated as out of print . |
| 9 | Their turnover has threbled to over six million and they employ ninety people , twice as many as last year . |
| 10 | Some of the change in grassland area is also the result of a downward trend in the area of land under cereals in Cantal ( Table 7 ) which has declined to over half its 1955 area . |
| 11 | A publishing company , financed by Edinburgh District Council and the Wester Hailes Partnership in Edinburgh has collapsed with debts which are thought to run to over a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 12 | In 1983 gas supplied 8% of energy demand and this is anticipated to rise to over 20% by 1990 by which time dependence on imported oil and gas is planned to fall from 83% in 1983 to 52% in 1990 . |
| 13 | Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel have been touring seriously for the last three years , having played to over a million people in a stint of two hundred and eighty-five concerts . |
| 14 | At the moment , automated workflow is used in less than a quarter of all electronic document management systems ; by 1995 it is projected to have jumped to over three quarters . |
| 15 | The 12.9 per cent illiteracy rate in 1981 was admitted to have risen to over 20 per cent by the late 1980s . |
| 16 | As argued earlier , for prevalence to have risen to over 1,000 in 1984–5 from a very low baseline in 1979 and a major acceleration in the incidence rate around 1982–3 , annual incidence for the five agencies must have been over 400 during 1984–5 , compared with nearer 300 in 1985–6 . |
| 17 | Naturally we very much hope that you will never be seriously injured in an accident , but sadly , every year , serious accidents do happen to over half a million people in Britain . |
| 18 | Naturally we very much hope that you will never be seriously injured in an accident , but sadly , every year , serious accidents do happen to over half a million people in Britain . |
| 19 | In 1957 there were just 140 lifers in prison ; thirty years later , in 1987 the number had grown to over 2,200 , of whom about one in five had received their life sentence for an offence other than murder . |
| 20 | By December , British casualties on the Somme had risen to over 400,000 . |
| 21 | By 15 June 1987 the company 's overdraft had risen to over £98,000 . |
| 22 | At the time of Britain 's accession in 1973 , the budget stood at £2,000 million per annum ; in 1991 it had risen to over £43,000 million . |
| 23 | Now we 've distributed to over a thousand clubs . |
| 24 | Fighting between the two rival Shia militias , the Syrian-backed Amal and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah , raged throughout West Beirut and the western Bekaa valley during December 1989 and had led to over 100 deaths by early January 1990 [ see p. 37137 ] . |
| 25 | By 1780 the number of British houses had increased to over seventy . |
| 26 | By 1972 , that figure had doubled to over 120,000 offences and since then there has been a steady increase . |
| 27 | Losses below the line have jumped to over £80m in the last year and in order to add ballast to the balance sheet the group may ultimately be forced to let its prized assets go at a knock down price if the recession continues . |
| 28 | This was in spite of the fact that the Glass Glover acquisition and last week 's £48.8 million purchase of Clifford Foods would help push gearing to over 60 per cent by the year end in March . |
| 29 | Council tenants ' rent arrears have risen to over £450 million , and in some inner London boroughs two out of three tenants are in arrears , the Audit Commission reveals . |
| 30 | Council tenants ' rent arrears have risen to over £450 million , the Audit Commission reveals . |