Example sentences of "[adj] over the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise the number of voters who think of themselves as being ‘ very strongly ’ committed to Labour has fallen by more than half over the same period to a mere 10 per cent of the electorate : of voters with of voters with Labour'very strong' Labour identificationidentification 19665024 19704721 19744516 19794211 19833711 19873613 19923711 |
| 2 | The bottom 10 over the same period were , in descending order : Save & Prosper Scotyields ; Henderson High Income ; Scottish Mutual Managed Income ; Fleming European Fledgling ; Save & Prosper High Return ; Prosperity Income & Growth ; Britannia Life Income Growth ; Fidelity Income Plus ; Guardian Royal Exchange Income ; and Scottish National Capital shares . |
| 3 | This has led to a change in the way in which both physical and social data are collected and combined in an effective conservation policy , or , as Pickering ( 1979 ) puts it , in such a way as to ensure the technical validity of a conservation technique is appropriate over the same area as its social validity . |
| 4 | The number of self-employed also fell by 24,000 over the same period . |
| 5 | The crime rate was reported on July 6 , 1990 , to have risen by 11.9 per cent over the previous year , and on Oct. 25 , 1991 , to have risen by 10.9 per cent in the first nine months of 1991 over the same period in 1990 . |
| 6 | A Home Office statistical bulletin said nationally police recorded an 11pc increase in offences in the last quarter of 1991 over the same period in 1990 . |
| 7 | Equity ‘ bargain' averages have also increased from 7,280 to 36,148 over the same period . |
| 8 | That was better than the OECD ( Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ) European average of 106 falling to 89 over the same period . |
| 9 | Those on investments in OPEC increased from $2.6 billion to $6.1 billion over the same period . |
| 10 | For example , between 1980 and 1990 the average advance to income ratio for first-time buyers rose from 1.67 to 2.19 , while the average percentage advance to first-time buyers rose from 73.8 to 82.5 over the same period . |
| 11 | A standby arrangement of up to 85,000,000 special drawing rights ( US$111,000,000 ) over the next 11 months was announced by the IMF on April 23 , 1990 ; an additional SDR42,500,000 ( US$55,000,000 ) under the compensatory and contingency financing facility ( CCFF ) , to help alleviate pressures caused by the loss of petroleum revenue , was also made available over the same period . |
| 12 | Fewer students were prepared to undertake the commitment to submit written work on a regular basis , or to study over long periods , and although the number of Article 24(a) Tutorial Classes rose from fourteen in 1947–48 to thirty in 1951–52 as a direct result of the District 's programme for action , the totals for Article 24(b) Sessional classes declined from forty-one to thirty-two over the same period . |
| 13 | Jafta Masemola , a founder member of the PAC ( which split from the ANC in 1959 over the latter 's policy of alliance with sympathetic left-wing whites and Indian organizations ) , was killed in a car crash near Pretoria on April 17 . |
| 14 | Conan suggests that Australia may have received £550 million from Britain in the period 1945–51 , South Africa perhaps £400 million over the same period . |
| 15 | For example , the number of visitors to the Department of the Environment 's Ancient Monuments rose from 6.8 million in 1960 to 15.4 million in 1972 ; visitors to National Trust properties also increased in number from 1.02 million to 3.9 million over the same period . |
| 16 | Exports were projected to rise by 76 per cent over the five years , from $388,000,000 in 1987/88 to $681,000,000 in 1992/93 , with imports rising 22 per cent to $1,450 million over the same period . |
| 17 | Intel Corp duly launched a new copyright infringement case against Advanced Micro Devices Inc over the latter 's just-announced Am486 parts that include Intel microcode . |