Example sentences of "[noun prp] over the [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to thank also er the different organisations , cos you made an absolute profit for the G P O , er erm British Telecom , they must have actually made a bomb in Leicestershire over the last few days . |
| 2 | The information area is another instance where RMI has become entangled and confused with a number of information initiatives in the NHS over the past few years . |
| 3 | Digital has run down sections of its operation in Ireland over the last few years , including the closure of a plant a Clonmel with the loss of 350 jobs . |
| 4 | Certainly , EDS 's flurry of activity in Italy and Spain over the last few months is proof that it had no dire need of BT to capture the interest of new customers and business partners in the southern reaches of Europe . |
| 5 | The London area plays a pivotal role in national migration patterns ( Flowerdew and Salt , 1979 ; Salt and Flowerdew , 1980 ) , so policy developments relating to south-east England over the next few years will be crucial to the way in which urban and regional patterns of population distribution evolve in the foreseeable future . |
| 6 | I write that the paradox is apparent because there have been signs of the same phenomenon in England over the past few seasons — and also because it is not at all surprising when you come to think about it . |
| 7 | On 22 October documents were removed from Winchester 's offices by Mr. Wells , in company with the compliance officer of Norwich , and the documents were examined by Mr. Wells over the next few days . |
| 8 | On 22 October documents were removed from Winchester 's offices by Mr. Wells , in company with the compliance officer of Norwich , and the documents were examined by Mr. Wells over the next few days . |
| 9 | Reports I read in the national press suggest that retail sales are not improving , and that has certainly been borne out by our experience in Scotland over the last few weeks . |
| 10 | Bob made a point of taking a benevolent interest in Morris over the next few days , to balance out Dyson 's hostility . |
| 11 | Thirty volunteers will be travelling to Croatia over the next few weeks , taking three operating theatres from St. Mary 's Hospital , Portsmouth with them . |
| 12 | No one who contemplates the brutal war that has racked Croatia over the last few months can do so without a deep feeling of sorrow and shame : sorrow that such devastation and misery should disfigure our continent in 1991 , and shame that we have been unable to do anything to halt the carnage and destruction . |
| 13 | All the same , rumblings of discontent have been detectable around Wantage Road over the past few weeks , prompting conjecture over a parting of the ways between Northamptonshire and their prized import , even though his contract still has a year to run . |
| 14 | I would like to thank the following for their help at WASL over the last few months : . |
| 15 | The economy is poised for take-off and the figures in Stroud over the last few months but I fully understand the fears of the workers and their families |
| 16 | TO MARK the end of the winter season of Head races , three major events take place on the Thames over the next few days . |
| 17 | Find out if any of them has been linked to Hendrique over the past few months . |
| 18 | The Government 's rationale for introducing such radical legislation was to curb the enormous rise in asylum application in the UK over the last few years . |
| 19 | Though there was less overall pessimism about job prospects throughout the UK over the next few months , the survey also showed that one in five firms expects fresh redundancies and only 17 per cent predict job increases in the three months to June . |
| 20 | Privately British officials believe Mr Patten will now have to endure a barrage of criticism from China over the next few weeks , following Prime Minister Li Peng 's report to the 8th National Party Congress next Monday at which he is expected to lambast the colonial administration for trying to subvert China with western-style democracy . |
| 21 | They have been pioneered in this country , the United States and Australia over the last few years mainly by individual schools and by some local education authorities . |
| 22 | THE sickening events in Romania over the past few days now leave Albania as the last resort of old-style Stalinism . |
| 23 | Tim Grant and myself have , I believe , been successful in setting up one or 2 areas of expertise in this area within the RAF over the past few years . |
| 24 | The breakthrough , dubbed a ‘ quantum leap into the future ’ is opening at other cinemas throughout the US over the next few weeks . |
| 25 | The significance of this event was not so much that it was government interfering in artistic freedom , as liberal would-be martyrs would have it , but that it showed how frightened the President was of the populist , anti-intellectual feeling which has developed in the US over the last few years . |
| 26 | IBM top brass is said to have been meeting with Hewlett-Packard officials at various locations around the US over the last few days to lobby for their support and an announcement may now be imminent . |
| 27 | More interestingly , sources say that HP is currently weighing a 20% stake in Taligent to cement the new relationship , while IBM brass have been meeting with HP officials at various locations around the US over the last few days firefighting for their support . |
| 28 | Given the number of prominent cases of judicial error in Britain over the past few years — Guildford Four , Birmingham Six , Stefan Kiszcko , the Tottenham Three and Judith Ward — it is not an abstract question . |
| 29 | If one looks across the channel , as some of us have , and sees the way in which the matter is approached there , it is humiliating to consider what has gone on in Britain over the past few years . |
| 30 | Foreign businesses , which have invested heavily in Britain over the past few years , were not left out yesterday . |