Sentence examples for contingents of over from inspiring English sources

Australia sent two contingents of over 300 engineers each to assist the Special Representative of the Secretary General, Martti Ahtisaari, in overseeing free and fair elections in Namibia for a Constituent Assembly in what was the largest deployment of Australian troops since the Vietnam War.

A contingent of over 3,000 faith leaders released a letter to members of the Senate on Monday urging them to vote against Republican legislators' latest attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act. .

At last year's San Francisco Pride Parade, they led a contingent of over a hundred ecosexuals in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to "officially" add an E to the LGBTQI acronym; Stephens told Outside that they believe there are now at least 100,000 people around the world who openly identify as ecosexuals.

On September 4, 2007, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) announced it was acquiring the DM&E from its present owners, London-based Electra Private Equity, for US$1.48 billion, and future payments of over $1.0 billion contingent on commencement of construction on the Powder River extension and specified volumes of coal shipments from the Powder River basin.

Both contingents of the major rift were amply represented.

For over a year now the residents of Arlit have been noticing small contingents of American soldiers around town.

Meanwhile, the athletic pursuits and vital statistics of Flight 93's virile contingent, repeated over and over in media reports, assumed mythic dimensions.

BOARDED-UP shops line the bazaar in Kateh Qala, a town almost deserted bar a small contingent of policemen peering over a line of sandbags.

Think again: Australia and New Zealand's domestic league makes ours look like tiddlywinks at times and both have a healthy contingent of expats playing over here.

Then, as the Murray's closed on the prize, breaking Darcis for 5-2, the British contingent of maybe just over a thousand filled this unlovely but hugely atmospheric hall with more noise than the Belgians could muster.

A contingent of national police officers waved over my car, which was loaded with $250,000 in cash I was taking to Ghazni, a town about two hours away, to pay laborers and staff members from my aid organization.