Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

Over half of the Afghan army would either desert or join the insurrection.

Over the last half of the 20th century, historical and archaeological research has increasingly supported the theory that the remnants of the Celtic Boii were absorbed into the Roman Empire and later intermingled with other Germanic peoples who chose to stay ( or were stationed by the Romans ) in the area.

Over half of the registered voting population of Chile has opted for a change away from center-left politics by electing a right-wing candidate, Sebastián Piñera

" Over half of Columbians possess a bachelor's degree and over a quarter hold graduate degrees, making it the thirteenth most highly educated municipality in the United States.

In the United States in 1995, the Glass Ceiling Commission, a government-funded group, stated: " Over half of all Master ’ s degrees are now awarded to women, yet 95 % of senior-level managers, of the top Fortune 1000 industrial and 500 service companies are men.

Over half of Japanese empresses and many emperors abdicated once a suitable male descendant was considered to be old enough to rule ( just past toddlerhood, in some cases ).

Over the next century, half of the estimated 200, 000 Spanish Jews converted to Christianity ( becoming " conversos ").

Over half of the Afghan army would either desert or join the insurrection.

Over half the 500 or so killed were civilians caught in the crossfire.

Over half of all European immigrants to Colonial America during the 17th and 18th centuries arrived as indentured servants.

Over half of Finland's population are registered borrowers.

Over half the survivors died.

Over half of the Yorubas are Christian and about a quarter are Muslim, with the remainder hold traditional Yoruba views.

Over half the crew, including DeLong, were lost.

Over half of all farm households in Poland produce only for their own needs with little, if any, commercial sales.

Over half of the supply of palladium and its congener platinum goes into catalytic converters, which convert up to 90 % of harmful gases from auto exhaust ( hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen dioxide ) into less-harmful substances ( nitrogen, carbon dioxide and water vapor ).

Over half of all known flatworm species are parasitic, and some do enormous harm to humans and their livestock.

Over half of the 15, 000 drinking establishments in London were gin shops.

Over 1, 000 specimens have been identified, though less than half are complete enough to give researchers good information on the anatomy of the animal.

Over half the Russian losses were prisoners as a proportion of those captured, wounded or killed.

Over half of the adult population is literate, but no more than 5 % have received secondary education.

Over half of all European immigrants to Colonial America during the 17th and 18th centuries arrived as indentured servants.

Over the coming two decades of almost constant warfare it is estimated that somewhere in the vicinity of five million died — probably about half of them civilians — and France alone counted nearly a million ( by some sources in excess of a million ) deaths.

Over half of Ukrainians polled by the Razumkov Center in early October 2010 ( 56. 6 %) believed political censorship existed in Ukraine.

Over the later 20th century this assumption was increasingly challenged.

This part of New York was in the so-called " Burnt Over District ," which earlier in the 19th century had generated much religious excitement, including the beginnings of Mormonism, and social causes, such as abolitionism and support for the Underground Railroad.

Over the course of the 20th century, Domitian's military, administrative and economic policies were re-evaluated.

Over the course of the 20th century it became increasingly common for first ladies to select specific causes to promote, usually ones that are not politically divisive.

Over the course of the twentieth century, the population of the country grew by a factor of fourteen.

Over the next century, the island was seized several times by the British.

Over the course of the 20th century, the UK gradually implemented tighter regulation of the civilian ownership of firearms through the enactment of the 1968, 1988, 1994 and 1997 Firearms ( Amendment ) Acts < ref >

Over the course of subsequent centuries, the term persisted and developed into its 21st century meaning of " recreational " or " leisurely pursuit ".

Over the past few decades, some scholars have argued for a 7th century BC date.

Over the course of the 18th century, the Authorized Version supplanted the Latin Vulgate as the standard version of scripture for English speaking scholars.

" Over the last century, research on the nature of human mating has generally found this not to be true when it comes to character and personality — people tend to like people similar to themselves.

Over subsequent centuries, the strings were doubled to courses, and eventually ( in Europe ) frets were added, leading to the first lute appearing in the thirteenth century.

Over the next 50 years many Mormons entered into plural marriages as a religious duty, with the number of plural marriages reaching a peak around 1860, and then declining through the rest of the century.

Over the rest of the sixteenth century further protectionist measures were introduced.

Over a century later, in 1645, Horacio Carochi defined macrons to mark long vowels ā, ē, ī and ō, and short vowels with grave (`) accents.

Over the last two millennia, physics was a part of natural philosophy along with chemistry, certain branches of mathematics, and biology, but during the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century, the natural sciences emerged as unique research programs in their own right.

Over the past century, people studying rhetoric have tended to enlarge its object domain beyond speech texts.

Over the 20th century, with the influence of social constructionism and pragmatism, this tradition began to change.

Over the 19th century, bullet design also evolved, the bullets becoming gradually smaller and lighter.

Over the course of the 19th century that gradually changed: the British and Creoles in the Freetown area increased their involvement in — and their control over — the surrounding territory by engaging in trade, treaty making, and military expeditions.

Over the next century, the region was studied by scientists from a number of countries, including Russia ( geologist Alexander Karpinsky, botanist Porfiry Krylov and zoologist Leonid Sabaneyev ), England ( geologist Sir Roderick Murchison ), France ( paleontologist Edouard de Verneuil ), and Germany ( naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, geologist Alexander Keyserling ).

Over time, the general view in the Jewish community came to be one of acceptance of Moses de Leon's claims, with the Zohar seen as an authentic book of mysticism passed down from the 2nd century.