Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Society has for over a year objected strongly to the plan under which the current arrangements for remunerating solicitors on the basis of work actually done are to be replaced by a standard fee scheme from April . |
| 2 | Altogether , English Heritage cares for over 350 ancient monuments and buildings from the smallest standing stones to the largest fortresses . |
| 3 | Those of you with long memories will have spotted that sometimes we have recycled some of Margaret Riley 's magazine covers from over 2 years ago . |
| 4 | The committee said the doctor had given morphine overdoses to over 550 people between 1986 and 1992 . |
| 5 | The European dimension is firmly at the centre of college activities , and funding generated for projects now stands at over £1 million . |
| 6 | The plan this time is to walk to Everest Base camp … from there within sight of the great peak they 'll tackle Pokalde … which stands at over 20 thousand feet |
| 7 | The country 's economic troubles are rooted in a string of global crises : specifically the oil crisis of the 1970s and the steep drop in copper prices , a commodity upon which Zambia depends for over 80 per cent of its foreign earnings . |
| 8 | It is sitting on a cash pile of £155m , which equates to over half its current Stock Market capitalisation . |
| 9 | It is managed from an office located within the Bank of England which has direct computer links to over 100 firms including all GEMMs , IDBs , SEMBs , the large banks and many of the large institutional investors in government stock . |
| 10 | Professor Jim Jeffery , who has attempted over many years to disentangle the truth from the official statistics about the AGR series , estimates that the cost overrun on building just four of the stations ( Dungeness B , Hinkley Point B , Hartlepool and Heysham 1 ) amounts to over £6.5 billion ( at 1988 prices ) . |
| 11 | Wordsworth produced quantities of verse in the next forty-three years : I stress the exact number of years because it amounts to over half his lifetime , and certainly to two-thirds of his poetic existence . |
| 12 | And er , if and when it 's published , there will be millions of words , I mean there are now , and I do n't how large it is now , it 's impossible to tell how large , erm , but just a couple of years , for example , amounts to over a quarter of a million words , so if you run that back to nineteen sixty nine , you see it is going to be one of the largest books ever written . |
| 13 | A dominating , magical snow-capped mountain which soars to over 12000ft . |
| 14 | Its superb sandy beach which stretches for over four miles , is very popular with sunworshippers and sports enthusiasts alike . |
| 15 | The sandy beach stretches for over four miles and is very popular with watersports enthusiasts . |
| 16 | The algal bloom stretches for over 600 miles from Mungindi on the Queensland border to Wilcannia , New South Wales , and is spreading southwards towards the Murray river . |
| 17 | One such person who a number of us were worried about just did not answer letters or telephone calls for over a year . |
| 18 | This compares to over 17 million in 1992 . |
| 19 | SINCE the second world war , a handful of Chinese families have reigned over Bangkok 's economy , which accounts for over half of Thailand 's output . |
| 20 | Under Venezuela 's five year plan for 1984–1989 the profile of debt payments allows for annual growth of 2.5 — 5.5% but whether this can be achieved is highly dependent on oil prices and quotas since oil accounts for over 90% of exports . |
| 21 | Since oil still accounts for over 25% of foreign exchange earnings and some 65% of total revenue the effect of the past five years has been almost cataclysmic . |
| 22 | We shall examine how they arrived at an indicator of relative need for non-psychiatric hospital in-patient services ( which accounts for over half of the total NHS budget ) . |
| 23 | This accounts for over 70 per cent of the combined reduction in annual surpluses , so if revenues fail to grow it is obvious where the axe will have to fall . |
| 24 | Michael Silverman himself , who handles assignments in the firm 's property sector — which now accounts for over a quarter of its business — has also established a reputation in the retail industry . |
| 25 | The other notable high cost function is ‘ connect parts ’ which accounts for over 60 per cent of the total . |
| 26 | The other notable high cost function is ‘ connect parts ’ which accounts for over 60 per cent of the total . |
| 27 | In the US alone there are 300,000 deaths annually ; this number accounts for over half of all cardiovascular mortality . |
| 28 | SOFFEX also launched an options contract on the Swiss Market Index ( SMI ) in 1988 which has proved to be highly successful and accounts for over half of the exchange 's annual turnover . |
| 29 | Scotch Whisky accounts for over a third of UK food and drinks exports , and its contribution limited the total food and drink ( F&D ) trade deficit to £4 bn in 1991 . |
| 30 | NEUE MITTE is in the centre of the town of Oberhausen ( population 225,000 ) , which is itself in the state of North Rhine Westphalia , the largest of the German states both in population ( 17.5 million ) and economic power , where it accounts for over a quarter of Germany 's gross national product . |