Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] over the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You trust the judgement of a man whos been proven right over the last 5 years . |
| 2 | Although foreign loans had been banned , reports indicated that Albania had about US$30,000,000 in short-term debt and $25,000,000 in long-term debt which would fall due over the next 13 years . |
| 3 | As reports from the Select Committee on Defence have made clear over the past few years , defence cuts are proceeding at such a pace that , if a future Labour Government continued in the same way , we would be left with Securicor and Group 4 to defend our shores and a steamship company to provide us with a substitute for the Royal Navy . |
| 4 | There can be no doubt that if Britain wants to look forward to a level of economic health even approaching that to which it has grown accustomed over the past 50 years , it must back Alvey 's proposals . |
| 5 | Only inhabited for the past two hundred years , the unique flora and fauna of these delightfully unsophisticated island have been allowed to evolve undisturbed over the past 600 million years , yielding a unique heritage of birds and blooms encompassing the spectrum 's every colour . |
| 6 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on Jan. 7 announced the provision of resources worth US$1,800 million to Czechoslovakia , to be made available over the next 14 months . |
| 7 | Hobson says that his section failed to meet 25 per cent of its targets last year , and added that " unless substantial additional resources can be made available over the next three years , something will have to give — either substantial slippage on the Environment Protection Act timetable ( which the Director does not recommend ) or opting out of policy development issues ( not easy where there are public commitments or international pressures ) " . |
| 8 | Almost every transaction can now be completed by the use of a transfer deed , and this means that the use and the art of preparing a conveyance deed will slowly become obsolete over the next few years . |
| 9 | The report identifies 34 species of animals and plants which have become extinct over the past 10 years due to inadequate protection under the Endangered Species Act ( ESA ) . |
| 10 | Siemens also says it expects losses at the semiconductor division to go on , saying that the prospects of it breaking even over the next few years as a result of cost-cutting had been dampened by weak demand . |
| 11 | With the growth that seems likely over the next few years one can not help asking what the future holds . |
| 12 | They change the angle of attack from acute within the central delta , to near neutral over the outer triangular sail panel . |
| 13 | In Britain consumption of meat has remained static over the past 20 years but ownership of freezers and the freezing of meat have increased dramatically . |
| 14 | With big increases in the numbers of bonds falling due over the next three years , defaults seem sure to rise further . |
| 15 | The microprocessor wars are going to get vicious over the next two or three years , and to convince its acolytes that Sparc will be one of the survivors , Sun Microsystems has been mapping out the future of the architecture . |
| 16 | Now the hard-up zoo in Regent 's Park is set to break even over the current financial year . |
| 17 | Although their numbers appear to have held steady over the past 15 years , the prospects for survival are said to be slim . |
| 18 | She remained feverish over the next 14 hours with cold peripheries and an arterial blood pressure of 90/50 mm Hg . |