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over and above

Idioms  
  1. In addition to, besides, as in Over and above travel expenses he was given a daily allowance. [Early 1500s]


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Over and above this, the delay is reported in Japan to cost $2 billion to $3 billion.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2020

Over and above these, the Holocaust for many writers and thinkers made reticence not a matter of choice but a moral and psychological obligation.

From The Guardian • Jan. 23, 2020

Over and above the furious—and ultimately painfully tender—drama, Perry achieves something of a new, grand version of his own cinematic music.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 24, 2018

Over and above this, acquiring land to build roads will not be easy, as many are opposed to new land acquisition rules.

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2017

Over and above those faults, which made him odious to his fellow-citizens, we trace in him a meanness that our century is less willing to condone.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various