Example sentences of "over [num] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took over two years of treatment and months of distress before 28-year-old Bethan Roberts found a cure for acne |
| 2 | The National Trust protects over half a million acres of countryside , mountains and lakes , farms and woods , and over 500 miles of coastline , nearly all of which is free to be enjoyed by everyone , to walk , sail , climb , picnic , or just simply relax . |
| 3 | Then pour over eight tablespoons of lemon juice and leave to stand overnight . |
| 4 | After over eight years of rule by the strongly pro-US Jamaica Labour Party , a period marked by great hardship as the economy was forcibly ‘ restructured ’ , the February 1989 election returned Michael Manley 's People 's National Party . |
| 5 | While many people dabbled , it 's a little known fact even in cave diving circles , that Geoff Yeadon , often diving alone , logged over 18,000 metres of diving looking for the King Pot inlet . |
| 6 | The University as a whole contains well over fifty teachers of history , who between them provide nearly ninety courses — thereby offering students a breadth of choice equalled by only three other British universities . |
| 7 | Erm again for those people have to be ov over fifty years of age and we operate in the maximum enhancement er provision . |
| 8 | Only one significant point is that the County Council 's workforce that has more than twenty per cent of staff over fifty years of age , which is quite unusual compared to other local authorities , and it has quite serious implications for the pension fund , |
| 9 | It was a substantial , two-storey , L-shaped house standing to the east of the track with walls partly flint and partly rendered , enclosing at the rear a courtyard of York stone which gave an uninterrupted view over fifty yards of scrub to the grassy dunes and the sea . |
| 10 | A recent exhibition of Mills and Boon front covers over seventy-five years of publishing demonstrates that the packaging of their company image , ‘ the rose of romance ’ , has not varied very much since . |
| 11 | ‘ They seem to think we are troublemakers but we have women , children and people over 70 years of age . ’ |
| 12 | Of these , 25 chose to take no part in the farm work , 2 were over 70 years of age , 4 had died in the past five years , and 3 farmers were unmarried . |
| 13 | The excess for gastric cancer was noted only for men over 70 years of age . |
| 14 | Over 120 acres of flower gardens and areas of natural woodland . |
| 15 | A statement by the provisional government of Eritrea on Aug. 1 said that over 82,000 prisoners of war and former government officials , and over 43,000 of their relatives , had been repatriated from Eritrea ; it said that in view of severe food shortages it had been impossible to feed them . |
| 16 | As you all know , SCOOT is state-of-the-art Urban Traffic Control which crunches data on traffic flows from traffic loops and automatically alters the timings of over 140 sets of traffic signals to minimise delays . |
| 17 | ‘ In the Gwynedd district , we are developing and refurbishing well over 300 km of line per year in order to improve the quality of supply to our customers , and it is essential that our costs are kept to a minimum , ’ said Mr Basford . |
| 18 | Over 300 rolls of carpet were sold at the highly successful roadshows . |
| 19 | Some parts of the south had over 300 mm of rain on Jan. 2 to 24 , more than the average for a whole year . |
| 20 | Elected FRS on 19 November 1772 , Jackson contributed a paper to the Philosophical Transactions for 1773 , stressing that over forty tons of isinglass had been processed from fish in the Great Lakes resembling those imported expensively from Russia . |
| 21 | Prout have over forty years of experience in design and construction of catamarans and as one would expect , superb attention has been paid to even the smallest detail making her comfortable and workable . |
| 22 | There are two prizes for veterans , that is over forty years of age . |
| 23 | With 38 deaths over 2 years of follow-up among the 119 survivors of the hospital admission , the study had 80% power to detect a relative risk of 3.0 between the oldest and youngest age groups . |
| 24 | The charity organisation assessed the hospital 's needs on its last visit to Romania when it took out over 30 tons of relief aid on three articulated lorries . |
| 25 | A 24 year old woman presented to hospital more than 18 hours after self poisoning with over 30 g of paracetamol taken as both co-proxamol and paracetamol . |
| 26 | Matinee gives you over 30 clips of video to edit and view . |
| 27 | I brought with me to New Zealand many paintings of my native Suffolk , much of the equipment used in over 30 years of painting in England , and all the learning achieved in the Suffolk fields . |
| 28 | In parallel , and in the shorter-term , acceptance will still be possible for those over 30 years of age with appropriate and verified management experience over a period of at least five years . |
| 29 | Several first team members are over 30 years of age . |
| 30 | Perhaps the virtue most appreciated , with over 30 years of hindsight , is his sheer effectiveness . |