Example sentences of "over [art] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 2.2 demonstrates changes over the seventeen years to 1987 : western Europe took over half our exports for the first time in recent history ; by 1987 , the EC alone took virtually half , and most other destinations , except for North America , had declined in relative importance . |
| 2 | In March 1982 the Daily Telegraph suggested that ‘ we need to consider why the peaceful people of England are changing … over the 200 years up to 1945 , Britain became so settled in internal peace ’ . |
| 3 | WE share the concern of Mrs Heather Countley , way out at Harwood-in-Teesdale , over the 55 minutes it took an ambulance to reach her injured son . |
| 4 | Scharli et al noted a 23% rise in the use of barium meal examinations over the 55 years of their study , while Breaux et al reported a 34% increase in the use of imaging techniques between 1980 and 1984 , largely attributable to the use of ultrasound . |
| 5 | With tongue in cheek , the writer had suggested that a deal be struck with Britain over the Six Counties in the North . |
| 6 | In retrospect , it seems that genuine concern on the part of the experimenters was communicated to the subjects to provide a potent source of suggestion that they should suffer symptoms of paranoia and hallucinations , and a cumulative sleep loss over the six days of the experiment combined to provide a fertile ground for the production of these symptoms . |
| 7 | Interest received from the borrower over the six months might not be sufficient to cover the bank 's own interest costs on deposits . |
| 8 | The immediate industrial crisis had been resolved , but inflation , which had been substantially boosted by the rise in world oil prices , continued to accelerate , and the discrepancy between price rises of 8 per cent and wage rises of 16 per cent over the six months stored up an acute problem of squeezed profitability . |
| 9 | The brothers found that on average over the six months they had incurred costs for advertising , petrol etc. which amounted to £10 for each bed sold . |
| 10 | House sales over the six months went up from 357 units for the previous comparable period to 409 . |
| 11 | For an investor who has selected a 1995 maturity date , BFS says the net asset value would have to fall by 5 per cent over the six years for the investment trust to be unable to pay up . |
| 12 | Standards have gone up consistently over the six years of the league and , although still dominated by a new wave of running clubs that have burgeoned over the last decade , more and more of the traditional athletics clubs have been paying more attention to the competition . |
| 13 | According to Bernier , who regularly visited the fort over the six years that he spent in and around Delhi : |
| 14 | ‘ We decided Mervyn 's tremendous contribution — one of imagination and professionalism — over the six years he was secretary had to be acknowledged in some way . |
| 15 | One hundred and twenty three adults were treated for benign oesophageal strictures over the six years , 1986–92 . |
| 16 | We studied 123 adult patients ( 76 men and 47 women ; mean age 38.7 ( 18.7 ) years ) , age range 18–84 years ) with benign oesophageal strictures treated by dilatation over the six years 1986–92 . |
| 17 | The KPMG barometer suggests that over the six years that fraud has been tracked , Scotland has been less affected than most regions , with total fraud in the overall period of £34.1 million or 2.1 per cent of the UK total reported . |
| 18 | Employment in construction rose by two-thirds over the six years , increasing its share of nonagricultural employment by more than half a million . |
| 19 | This gave a k value of 0.72 , which shows a very high level of agreement over the six categories . |
| 20 | This year 's parliament is intended to include the final rites over the 1989 protests as the judiciary reports on its recent ‘ successes ’ in jailing the leaders of the demonstrations . |
| 21 | In fact I played well , dropping only six shots over the nine holes — the equivalent of playing off 12 handicap , and I 'm really 15.6 handicap and rising . |
| 22 | Over the nine years of its existence , the CCC provided work for 2.5 million young men . |
| 23 | Influenced by the lower pound , earnings jumped by 22 per cent during the period and over the nine months . |
| 24 | Sales of polymers , healthcare products and agrochemicals improved over the nine months , while sales of organic and industrial products and imaging technologies fell . |
| 25 | But Sealink did admit that their numbers had fallen over the nine months from January 1 to Monday of this week , by 20,755 passengers and 9,644 cars . |
| 26 | Over the 1960s wearers of the old school tie probably became less evident in the boardroom and the higher reaches of management , but they were not generally replaced by an elite drawn from the new cadres of higher education . |
| 27 | On Dec. 19 , the leader of the group , Mr Justice Telford Georges , was reported to have expressed concern over the 45 nominations , at a meeting with Moi . |
| 28 | More often than not you get a refund cos of course you have personal allowances for a whole year but you 've not er not er lived a whole year as often as not and therefore there usually spaced over the twelve months and you 've paid a bit too much tax if you 've died in the course of the twelve months . |
| 29 | Soft ground would put stamina at a premium over the twelve furlongs , and doubts about Sir Ivor 's getting the trip contributed to Piggott 's tactics . |
| 30 | Over the eighteen months I have had the multifasciatus they have showed signs of wanting to breed but have failed to do so . |