Example sentences of "over [n mass] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The game currently turns over $3.5 million a week , which is expected to increase to around $8 million a week within two years . |
| 2 | An estimated 3,000 prostitutes , many lured to the city from Eastern Europe on illegal visas with promises of glamorous jobs in nightclubs , turn over £52.6 million a year . |
| 3 | The centre itself , run by fulltime general manager Peter Rodger , turns over £4.5 million a year , based on income from work-space rental and training , conference and exhibition facilities . |
| 4 | There are also too many vehicle accidents , the costs of which now amount to over £1 million a year . |
| 5 | Thresher has a commitment to training and invests over £1 million a year in the direct cost of training its staff and managers . |
| 6 | Since its acquisition two years ago of Consumers Gas of Canada , a company with nearly ten years experience in NGV development , British Gas has been in the forefront of NGV research — in which it invests over £1 million a year in the UK . |
| 7 | Over £1 million a year investment in the UK . |
| 8 | Airtours announced that it had signed contracts with suppliers which quantified the savings from a merger at over £20 million a year . |
| 9 | Employers already spend over £20,000 million a year on training . |
| 10 | In London and the south-east , congestion costs the economy over £10 billion a year . |
| 11 | The government 's er oil revenues have gone up by £345 million , er that 's an average of £7.1 million a day , since the Gulf crisis started , and er they 're now running at over £13 million a day more than they were before the crisis commenced . |
| 12 | One estimate puts the cost in terms of sickness absence alone at over £700 million a year . |
| 13 | Analysis shows very convincingly that , in effect , this procedure saves the Exchequer over £2 million a year ( Rees , 1989 ) . |
| 14 | Her net contribution to the EEC budget now stands at well over £2 billion every year — a cost equivalent to that of building over a hundred National Health Service hospitals . |
| 15 | He did , however , miss the opportunity to improve our dental and general health and collect another billion or so by placing a heavy excise duty on sugar , chocolate and other confectionery , on which we spend over £4 billion a year . |
| 16 | The Japanese surplus fell to below $50,000 million in the second half of 1989 from over $80,000 million a year earlier , and the West German surplus in the second half of 1989 was also slightly below its record level in the first half of the year . |
| 17 | Certainly , state pensions — now over £25 billion a year — will not grow as fast as they might have done , or seem likely to do in many other rich countries . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's a world market of over £100 million a year in clean technology and I want to see British industry winning a much larger share of it . ’ |
| 19 | The Secretary of State is accountable to Parliament for that enormous budget — currently running at over £30 billion a year — and must remain so . |
| 20 | I have found this quite revealing — £28 000 a year for geriatric NHS long stay and over £30 000 a year for psychogeriatric long stay . |
| 21 | The UK imports Canadian timber and forest products worth over £50 million a year . |
| 22 | So we will increase the additional support , already up by over £300 million a year since 1989 , available to less well-off pensioners . |
| 23 | Several thousand of the 226,000 people employed in the industry are also expected to clock up seven-figure incomes this year , making them targets of another Clinton tax proposal — a 10 per cent surcharge on earnings over $1 million a year . |
| 24 | The programme has cost the federal government over $1 billion a year . |
| 25 | Turnover is now estimated at over $5 billion a year , making the animal trade the most profitable international illegal enterprise after the world trade in narcotics . |