Example sentences of "by over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1986 ( the latest year for which statistics are available ) the world population grew by over 81 million ( 81,557,000 ) and the number of Catholics by over 12 million ( 12,426,000 ) to 864 million ( 864,379,000 ) . |
| 2 | The Tony Castro-designed Juno IV was comfortably ahead of the other boats of her size and won on handicap by over a minute . |
| 3 | The ten privatised water authorities have lifted their prices by just under 13% ; the 29 statutory water companies ( which have always been in the private sector and supply water , but not sewage services , to about a quarter of the population of England and Wales ) have increased theirs by over 15% . |
| 4 | Not only do the hereditary peers entitled to sit in the House of Lords outnumber life peers by over two to one , but the hereditary principle ensures a constant supply of new blood , while during the eighties the Labour benches became thinner and thinner , as their life peers grew older and more infirm . |
| 5 | COLIN McRAE of Scotland recorded his second runaway victory of the year when he won the Carlisle-based Pirelli International by over four minutes in his Subaru at the weekend . |
| 6 | The investment increases production capacity by over 10 000 t pa . |
| 7 | So we will increase the additional support , already up by over £300 million a year since 1989 , available to less well-off pensioners . |
| 8 | Pre-dating the National Health Service by over thirty years , in 1916 the Venereal Disease Regulations were passed instructing all local health authorities to provide clinics for the diagnosis and treatment of the venereal diseases . |
| 9 | Advertising is felt to be one of the most important first choice marketing techniques by over 43 percent of firms . |
| 10 | Cannizzaro anticipated this article by over 100 years . |
| 11 | Ongoing experiments in Wales corroborate these results , although with animals like moles , which have tough and durable skins , the periods involved are longer by over half . |
| 12 | For example , congruity with the bias decreased the time to make positive judgements — that the because clause was a sensible continuation of the sentence — by over 300 ms for the simple inference materials ( 1667 versus 1998 ms ) , but had no effect for the complex inference materials ( 2117 versus 2105 ms ) |
| 13 | The main experiment at one point , code-named UAI , has been designed under Rubbia 's direction by over 120 scientists from Austria , Britain , France , Germany , Italy , the US and CERN . |
| 14 | Competition between the Poles and the Commission had driven up the price of land in Pomerania by over 100 per cent by 1900 , so that land the German farmers did not want to farm cost twice as much as farmland anywhere else in Germany . |
| 15 | The need for better , or more planning was mentioned in various ways , by over a quarter of the sample . |
| 16 | Between the ages of 25 and 29 , the annual remarriage rates per 1,000 divorced men was 136 in 1989 , down by over 70 per cent from 1971 figure of 503 . |
| 17 | For women , the number was down by over 60 per cent to 142 from 364 . |
| 18 | During 1992 , the proportion of female to male company secretaries and investor relations officers rose by 1.5% to 7% and by over 4% to 17% respectively . |
| 19 | In all the funeral exceeded the bishop 's estimate by over £540 , amounting to £940 18s. 11d . |
| 20 | A cut of 1% to 7% could be on the cards in tomorrow 's autumn statement and this pushed the FT-SE 100 Index ahead by over 19 points to 2714.6 . |
| 21 | The world 's biggest hookah was smoked in Amsterdam on Queen 's Day a couple of years ago by over 200 people simultaneously . |
| 22 | Clifton 's top hairdressing salon , Bendrey Sinclair of Regent Street , has just appointed their 12th member of staff , Tracey Morgan ( above ) , boosting their numbers by over 100% since the opening two years ago . |
| 23 | TUC research , using the Treasury 's own computer model , shows that a £2 billion increase in public spending would cut Britain 's 2,700,000 jobless total by over 100,000 . |
| 24 | In the financial period from February 1 to the end of June fares are up by over 30 per cent on the same period in 1991 . |
| 25 | They won the CANZ series after a phenomenal series of results : they beat all the main contenders by substantial margins and inflicted defeats by over 40 points on their main rivals ; Otago , the provincial champions of the touring Rugby Canada . |
| 26 | Between 1981 and 1991 , the number of first marriages fell for both sexes by over a quarter . |
| 27 | It embraces the whole spectrum of WACC 's activities , including areas which were identified as priorities by over 450 communicators attending the Manila congress in 1989 . |
| 28 | For example , sterling 's real exchange rate relative to the dollar rose by over 40 per cent between late 1977 and late 1980 , only to fall by about 35 per cent in the following two years . |
| 29 | The Mercedes was equipped with an electric sunroof , automatic transmission , anti-lock brakes and a few more extras that swelled the price by over £4,000 . |
| 30 | Instead of controlling Government spending , and keeping the lid on inflation , the Labour Government borrowed more and more — increasing spending by over 12 per cent in just one year ( 1974–5 ) , and presiding over an inflationary spiral the like of which has never been recorded before or since . |