The excise duty on playing cards was abolished on 4 April 1960, as the cost of administration had become excessive.

And it promptly canceled the practice, saying the gift giving had become excessive.

As a result, the drinking which had always been periodic was now becoming excessive.

Some fear the practice is becoming excessive.

The cold was cruel; the fatigue, as time went on, became excessive; and in that preserve of sharks, fear hunted them.

Others, however, have complained that the often quite lucrative pay - while opaque to donors, large and small - has become excessive.

Such products would thus be exempt from labelling, and the number of exemptions could risk becoming excessive.

It is also important to prevent the costs becoming excessive.

Fortunately, her pieces were brief enough to keep the repetitions from becoming excessive.

In 1965 the number of requests to admit children into the Royal College Primary had become excessive.