Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] over the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1928 the Medical Officer reported that maternity and child welfare had developed remarkably over the last two years . |
| 2 | This behaviour occurred repeatedly over the next few days , the fish ‘ playing dead ’ every time I returned into their field of vision . |
| 3 | ‘ Customers ’ orders , as well as invoices , can be processed via the EDI network and Atlas ; we expect the number of customers wanting to transmit orders in this way to increase substantially over the next two years . |
| 4 | ‘ The funds are currently being invested in our bogus companies ; their value will fall dramatically over the next six months . ’ |
| 5 | Bankings which have been torn apart over the last two centuries and then rebuilt and rebuilt again may have to be moved back to take the sting out of the pile-driving force of the river in spate . |
| 6 | What had been happening financially over the last five or six years is unclear but in 1932 the situation was regarded as ‘ serious ’ and it was to continue so ( as with other Clubs in the Depression ) until the late 1930's . |
| 7 | Over a third of the Group 's 104,000 UK employees hold shares through the Staff Profit Sharing Scheme and have seen the value of the shares grow significantly over the last five years as a result of the company 's continued success . |
| 8 | However trends in the activity rates of men and women have differed significantly over the last 15 years . |
| 9 | AMNESTY in Britain has grown tremendously over the last four or five years , but what has this meant for our effectiveness as a campaigning organisation ? |
| 10 | Fewer than 1 in 5 of the men in our sample has confined his sexual experience to a single partner , though two-thirds of them have done so over the last 12 months . |
| 11 | ‘ Our business in this market has grown impressively over the last five years , thanks largely to the efforts of Tony Hardacre and our agents , the Sumitomo Corporation , ’ said Juan . |
| 12 | The wind dropped gradually over the next 20 minutes . |
| 13 | Blood glucose concentration was held at 5 mmol/l for 40 minutes by simultaneous infusion of 20% glucose ( Baxter Health Care , Thetford , Norfolk ) and then reduced stepwise over the next 220 minutes to a low of 2 mmol/l ; then the concentration was restored to 5 mmol/l and held there until 260 minutes . |
| 14 | ‘ During our Everest expedition in 1953 we had vast quantities of firewood at base camp and never thought about the problems , but environmental consciousness has grown enormously over the last 30 years or so . ’ |
| 15 | The demand for in-service training has grown enormously over the last three years in response to the following factors : |
| 16 | In 1881 Mr Kibataro Oki produced the first Japanese telephone and created a company that has grown dramatically over the last 110 years . |
| 17 | In 1881 Mr Kibataro Oki produced the first Japanese telephone and created a company that has grown dramatically over the last 110 years . |
| 18 | Now speaking to you , as chairman of the G M B parliamentary group I can tell you that we have met twice over the last few weeks on this issue of modernization and we are agreed on the need to avoid a damaging public row from which everybody yes including the unions , will lose . |
| 19 | The generosity of people in the area so far gives them good cause to believe that they will succeed again over the next 12 months . |
| 20 | There seems to the writer little doubt that unemployment due to automation will grow steadily over the next few decades , perhaps centuries , and in the end it is likely to reach a very high figure , say ninety per cent of the labour force , unless radical changes are made in the present pattern of working . |
| 21 | The proportion of women combatants has risen considerably over the last three years . |
| 22 | As a family , therefore , we have perfectly happily left what little savings we could scrape together over the last 20 years or so with the Woolwich Building Society , whose efficiency and ethics we have never had any reason to doubt . |
| 23 | Cultural contamination of soil on a large scale has occurred only over the last 200 years and is generally absent in the more remote areas . |
| 24 | In the 12 hours that followed after it clambered effortlessly over the last five earth dykes , raised by terrified residents in as many days , the lava officially caused £1 million damage . |
| 25 | Clearly , then , the church reflects the important early medieval status of Brimpsfield with its castle and priory , whilst also providing an indicator that the centre of gravity of the village has shifted westwards over the last 800 years . |
| 26 | Humpbacks , sperms and rorquals formed the basis of an extensive antarctic whaling industry , which began in 1904 at a single whaling station on South Georgia and expanded enormously over the next three decades , making use of both shore stations and pelagic fleets . |
| 27 | Erm wh what I would suggest is the three that are on the group and if John 's going to be off maybe somebody else from NALGO would , would er step in to the group , get together over the next two weeks or so and er try to jointly produce a Northumberland newsletter ? |
| 28 | It is amazing that , although agriculture in general faces cuts , if the proposals were adopted the CAP could cost more over the next seven years than it does now . |
| 29 | The range of newspapers read by the bulk of the British electorate has narrowed sharply over the last two decades — in terms of the political partisanship of mass-selling papers , if not in terms of the proliferation of low-circulation titles ( Newton , 1988a , p. 320 ; Tunstall , 1983 , p. 12 ) . |
| 30 | He told a news conference : ‘ I am very happy with their progress so far and I think they will continue to do well over the next few days . |