Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] over the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not doubt that over the next 20 years the Community 's evolution will be as marked as it has been in the nearly 20 years since we joined . |
| 2 | It was a simple , but very pertinent observation and re-emphasised that over the last 18 months or so the All Blacks have been steadily squeezed in the nutcracker of their own ambition . |
| 3 | The RYA says that over the next 10 years demand for new berths will reach 85,000 nationally on top of the present 190,000 . |
| 4 | Mead says that over the next several years it will move from a mainframe-centric architecture to a more flexible Unix environment , and Hewlett products are being incorporated as components of Mead Data 's internally developed Lexis and Nexis legal , business , financial and medical databases . |
| 5 | Legal & General 's Michael Payne says that over the next few years he expects his fund ‘ will grow more in Europe at the expense of UK equities , ’ particularly now that entry into the ERM has reduced the currency risk . |
| 6 | The Newcastle 's cap and collar mortgage , where the interest can not rise about 10.75 per cent or fall below 9.5 per cent for a full seven years is a good bet , especially when you consider that over the last 10 years , the average interest rate has been around 12 per cent . |
| 7 | Alan Milburn , said official department of employment figures showed that over the last two years youth unemployment has increased over 40pc faster than the general rise . |
| 8 | Has the Prime Minister had time today to study the Department of Trade and Industry 's figures that were released on Tuesday , which showed that over the last five years Chinese quotas for the importation of cashmere garments into the European Community have been exceeded by 500,000 units and that in 1991 the actual importation exceeded the quotas by over 400 per cent ? |
| 9 | Mr Milburn said latest figures showed that over the last three years the number of patients removed from waiting lists without having received treatment had increased 145pc . |
| 10 | Arthur Andersen is downsizing and over the next two years will be replacing its Wang minicomputers with a PC-based system running Notes . |
| 11 | Erm , I know that over the last few days you 've gone through the process of writing prioritised notes , so I 'm not going to go through that process with you . |
| 12 | I can give the hon. Gentleman and the House some comfort by saying that over the next two years things will change dramatically . |
| 13 | I guess that over the last six years television has given him only a quarter of her exposure . |
| 14 | However , it is that means that over the last few years every time we have actually debated about budget we recognised that the force had unwillingly and against the judgement of the majority of this council , not necessarily er bounded by political affiliation , we have to be getting down further and further towards the completely inaccurate expanded spending assessment that is assessed as necessary for the needs of this city by the department of the environment . |
| 15 | That means that over the next 14 months new national vocational qualifications will be accredited and put in place at a rate of well over one a day . |
| 16 | A gluten free diet was started and over the next two months there was 2.3 kg weight gain and symptomatic improvement . |
| 17 | In April 1991 a new compliance classification of effluent analysis was adopted by FRPB whereby ‘ borderline ’ ie 20% of consent figure was abandoned and compliance means absolute limits ie Pass or Fail and over the last four samples on the new basis Whitburn New had 0% compliance . |
| 18 | British Gas said that over the last 10 years it has lost about 2,000 workers a year with the switch to natural gas . |
| 19 | Mr Maan said that over the last three to four years , Strathclyde had become far more cooperative with moves to abandon discriminatory practices and willing to accept criticism . |
| 20 | Disaster relief officials said that over the last three days another 12,000 people had been evacuated to join 45,000 already crammed into the centres after an eruption killed 75 people on 2 February . |
| 21 | Mike Turner , chairman of BAe 's Jetstream Holdings subsidiary , said that over the next few years ‘ hundreds of millions of pounds ’ are due to be invested in the Jetstream family of aircraft , construction of which is being concentrated at Prestwick following an extensive reorganisation at BAe . |
| 22 | It 's probably the , the simplest illustration is to say that over the last three or four years , we 've moved from being well below S S A to nine point four percent above S S A , now nothing 's changed other than that we 've got a slight decrease in the number of calls over this last two years . |
| 23 | He has been working very long hours setting up in business here in er in this area er he gets home late at night and I 'm afraid to say that over the last few months he 's been nagged continuously by his girlfriend who wants him to try and sort out financial arrangements because the relationship between the two of them 's not been very good . |
| 24 | Mr Knight anticipates that over the next few years manufacturing capacity will expand and business may be further developed via a joint venture . |