Example sentences of "[coord] over in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the traditional retirement resorts have already experienced a large increase in the number of very elderly people who place extra demands on health and residential care facilities , to the extent that in places like Worthing , Hastings , Eastbourne and Clacton around one in eight people were aged 75 or over in 1981 . |
| 2 | Also , the demographic structure was gradually shifting towards a higher representation of older age-groups ( 12 per cent aged 65 years or over in 1951 , compared with 3.5 per cent in 1901 ) , and changes in household composition produced increasing numbers of elderly people living alone ( Wall 1982 ) . |
| 3 | Her tables show that 16 per cent of the households containing a married couple with a partner aged 65–74 in 1971 and 23.5 per cent of married couple households with a partner aged 75 and over in 1971 had dissolved to a lone person household by 1981 . |
| 4 | However , the numbers of the very elderly will increase substantially : there are likely to be 1.2 million people aged 85 and over in 2006 ( Population Projections 1985–2025 , 1987 , Appendix II ) , an increase of 75 per cent over the 1986 figure . |
| 5 | The numbers have not , however , fallen significantly , and in 1977 there were still 44,100 adults aged sixteen and over in mental handicap hospitals in England , and recent decreases in these numbers have not been anywhere near as rapid as successive governments have proposed would be the case . |
| 6 | ‘ Somewhere past Portugal , and over in that direction must be the north-west coast of Africa . |
| 7 | Censuses of those aged 65 years and over in any type of residential care at midnight on 11 December 1979 and 27 November 1990 . |
| 8 | The vote was extended to all women aged 21 and over in 1928 . |
| 9 | For example , among those aged 65 and over in non-manual socio-economic groups 12 per cent of men compared with 17 per cent of women report acute sickness and among manual groups the proportions are 16 per cent and 21 per cent respectively . |
| 10 | The proportion of people aged 65 years and over in residential care in Leicestershire was 4.2% in 1979 and 4.7% in 1990 , similar to the national level of around 5% . |
| 11 | In these songs , the great variety of cries and moans are repeated over and over in ordered patterns built around a basic unit or syllable that is equivalent to a note in our music . |
| 12 | Table I.3 Number and percentage of those aged 60 and over in three age bands at various periods , United Kingdom ( millions ) |
| 13 | Yet the proportion of the total population aged 65 and over in this category is estimated from the NDHS for each Authority and is now ten years out of date , during which period there has been a significant increase in the numbers of elderly , including the very old . |
| 14 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |