Example sentences of "[adv] over [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This suggestion is not dissimilar to the recommended way of getting closer to children by working together over a third object , such as a drawing , or a jigsaw puzzle . |
| 2 | The proportion of pupils with statements varies widely across the country , partly because of the LEAs ' differing policies on ‘ statementing ’ , but overall stands at some 1.7 per cent of the total population of statutory school age , with just over a fifth of these in ordinary rather than special schools . |
| 3 | Whilst only just over a fifth of all workers work on a part-time basis , well over a half of temporary workers do so . |
| 4 | Just over a tenth ( 11–12 per cent ) of each used fixed-term contract workers and just over a fifth ( 22 per cent ) of each used agency workers . |
| 5 | Family practitioner services take just over a fifth of total NHS spending . |
| 6 | Of the items which were not supplied , almost half ( 48% ) were already in use , just over a fifth ( 21% ) were being bound , one in ten ( 10% ) could not be located , and a further one in ten ( 10% ) did not in fact form part of the Library 's holdings . |
| 7 | Just over a tenth ( 11–12 per cent ) of each used fixed-term contract workers and just over a fifth ( 22 per cent ) of each used agency workers . |
| 8 | Textiles accounted for just over a third , after a slight increase that got through to profit . |
| 9 | Textiles accounted for just over a third , after a slight increase that got through to profit . |
| 10 | Only just over a third of sales were military and well over half were overseas , so steady progress is attainable for a prolonged period .. |
| 11 | Just over a third , 35 per cent , of those who had lived in an old people 's home for a year or more had had help from a nurse who visited the home in the year before they died . |
| 12 | Most male nurses did not share these views , with only just over a third believing they were perceived as being gay . |
| 13 | Fifty-four more companies — just over a third — giving to the governing party were thanked with knighthoods . |
| 14 | Equally , just over a third of those who had been out of the labour market altogether , but were now in work , had temporary jobs . |
| 15 | The acquisition increased GA 's Canadian premium income by just over a third , lifting its market share to just over 8% . |
| 16 | Sharing out the absentee pupils amongst these years , S4 pupils took the largest share ; just over a third of all the June absentees were S4 pupils . |
| 17 | Just over a third of those guilty of indictable offences are cautioned , that 's around the national average and well below that in Kent . |
| 18 | Late last night he was believed to have taken well over a third of all the votes cast in the Sicilian capital . |
| 19 | The latter is the third largest travel agent in the UK , has 334 branches , and employs 1,300 people — well over a third of Airtours 3,500 total workforce . |
| 20 | Despite a disconcerting 85% plunge in net profits to just $94.5m , Fujitsu Ltd , bolstered by the acquisition of ICL Plc is putting rapidly increasing distance between itself and the other contenders for the title ‘ world 's second-biggest computer company ’ : some commentators illegitimately eliminate Fujitsu 's semiconductor sales from the total simply because the company sells more of its chip output on the merchant market than do IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co , but all of Fujitsu 's $26,640m annual turnover is information technology-related — and the company is now nearly twice the size of the $14,000m-a-year DEC , and well over a third the size of IBM ; only a decade ago , IBM was more like 10 times the size of the next biggest computer manufacturer . |
| 21 | Since London was not able to accommodate its own natural increase , it meant that the whole of the 3.5 million population growth had to be found elsewhere — a population increase of well over a third for the area outside London . |
| 22 | But notice here in seventy er , seventy three and four , is that right , seventy three and four , alright , yields fell , alright , by about a third , well , well over a third in two , in the two years . |