Example sentences of "[adv] over the [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | So over the next few months we 'll be looking at the underlying organization of Windows from a practical point of view ; showing you exactly how to install , run and remove applications ( and other things , like printer drivers ) from Windows . |
2 | There was a lot of helpful feedback from these pieces so over the next few months I will try to provide a few more examples to expand this work . |
3 | Only over the last few months had she noticed the subtle swing of attention away from her towards medical students , or the younger female doctors . |
4 | And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election . |
5 | I hope to see most of you personally over the next few weeks but if I do n't then can I say ‘ Thanks ’ and ‘ All the Best for a healthy and prosperous future . ’ |
6 | The number of applications based on this ground has increased alarmingly over the past few years . |
7 | The number of applications based on this ground has increased alarmingly over the past few years . |
8 | ‘ I 've spent over £400 in petrol alone over the past few months , taking him to meetings and training ’ , Mr Brice confirmed . |
9 | Dataquest Japan forecasts that while the office computer market at $4,600m is currently double the size of the workstation market , the market will decline at 7% annually over the next few years to 1996 , while Unix workstation shipments will grow at 29% a year over the period . |
10 | She had n't been keeping track of the conversation , but he seemed to have pulled himself together over the past few minutes . |
11 | He took out the slim dossier on Mikhail Vologsky which he had been able to put together over the past few weeks . |
12 | So that we could keep the bloody team together over the next few years . |
13 | Interethnic relations , Gorbachev conceded in his speech to the 28th Party Congress in July 1990 , had deteriorated since the congress before it , and especially over the previous few months . |
14 | Dinah grew physically over the next few years . |
15 | Did the squalid detail of the atrocities of The Fox which the press featured so fully have no effect on the variety of Foxes spawned and featured so prominently over the next few months in the pages of these newspapers ? |
16 | In no sense did it correspond to the experience of student activism that so many of my generation were to go through elsewhere over the next few years . |
17 | However , given the developments both in the United Kingdom and elsewhere over the last few years , it is now unlikely that this course will be taken . |
18 | If it falls much further over the next few days , Mr Major will have no choice but to raise interest rates . |
19 | Her salary has been growing to the point where she feels she can afford to buy a home and it promises to climb much further over the next few years . |
20 | More and more over the last few years , however , findings both from his own lab and others have tended to enrich the somewhat simplistic reductionist framework within which the Aplysia findings had earlier been set . |
21 | Er the unemployment rate while still relatively in relation to national and even er regional levels , has increased very rapidly over the last few years and in fact over the last two or three years we 've had something like three thousand jobs lost i in Harrogate . |
22 | ‘ We have expanded rapidly over the past few years and have now outgrown our existing factory , ’ said David Gray , chairman and managing director of the Saltofix Group . |
23 | $300m will be paid by the firm 's various insurers and the remainder by its 2,000 partners , most probably over the next few years . |
24 | After shrinking slightly over the past few years , the gap grew to nearly $10 billion during the first four months of this year , up from a little over $6 billion for the same period in 1990 . |
25 | Thirdly , our policy analysis and research team , takes responsibility for looking further ahead , and doing a lot of the initial thinking about both the challenges and the opportunities that will affect the sector domestically and internationally over the next few years . |
26 | This behaviour occurred repeatedly over the next few days , the fish ‘ playing dead ’ every time I returned into their field of vision . |
27 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
28 | He 's sticking his neck out , with a prediction that the snow ploughs and gritting lorries wo n't be needed too often over the next few months . |
29 | This illness , a recurrence of the same symptoms ( violent colic , with spells of vomiting and attacks of fever ) that he had suffered intermittently over the past few years , was a sombre presage of his final illness , now only two years away . |
30 | It is important to stress that the method of control has in fact changed quite substantially over the last few years . |