Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the following two weeks President Turgut Özal called meetings of both party leaders and of the Council of Ministers , and on April 13 full details of the measures were announced . |
| 2 | On Saturday , Dave Ward 's Sunrays Cannon clocked 25.38 for the recently introduced 400 metres trip , while in Monday 's open races , Mona Wainright 's Sheffield-based Milebush Groovy became the first greyhound to win over the new 774 metres distance in 51.02 secs . |
| 3 | Over the past 46 years Professor Tom Hewer and his wife , Anne , have made a delightful garden in two acres in Henbury on the outskirts of Bristol . |
| 4 | On the debit side , over the past 10 years output reduced by 35 million tonnes or 28 per cent. , but the parallel decrease in consumption is much less . |
| 5 | Over the past 10 years Philips Analytical has grown and diversified away from its core technologies of X-ray analysis and electron microscopy . |
| 6 | Over the past 10 years AI has documented more than 4000 cases of ‘ disappeared ’ people in Peru , scores of summary executions and at least 15 massacres by the security forces . |
| 7 | Health units have found that over the past two years nurses have taken more time off sick with qualified nurses taking an average of 14 days off each year . |
| 8 | But over the past two years Ravenscraig 's position has weakened . |
| 9 | Over the past two years Japan 's five largest city ( ie , national commercial ) banks raised ¥3 trillion ( $21 billion ) in total — to help them meet the new capital-adequacy requirements set under the auspices of the Bank for International Settlements ( BIS ) . |
| 10 | Over the past two weeks Ronni had done her share of moping . |
| 11 | Over the past two months Mr Steinhardt has juggled positions in banks , drugs and oil-service companies to build up a short portfolio of $640m . |
| 12 | Over the past 200 years turning has been one of the most highly skilled jobs to be found in engineering workshops . |
| 13 | The supplementary note disclosed that over the past six years £298m goodwill arising on acquisitions has been written off to reserve . |
| 14 | Over the past six months statistics have been gathered by a new Europe-wide service . |
| 15 | Over the past six months statistics have been gathered by a new Europe-wide service but have not been published until yesterday . |
| 16 | Over the past fifteen years concern has been growing over the environmental effects and social costs of ‘ acid rain' . |
| 17 | Over the past 14 months Dr Rhidian Morris and his partners in a fundholding practice in Devon have piloted contracts for all aspects of community care . |
| 18 | There have been significant advances in management techniques in industry , and over the past five years CAC has been actively developing ways of transferring TQM education into new working behaviour and attitudes . |
| 19 | Over the past four years Colin French has been in and out of court … receiving sixty-five convictions for cruelty . |
| 20 | Over the past eighteen months Cadbury and Save The Children have worked very successfully together , staging three strollathons sponsoring nationwide pantomimes and running a promotion on chocolate bars . |
| 21 | Over the past 30 years investors in American and British IPOs who sold their shares on the first trading day earned returns of 15% and 12% respectively . |
| 22 | Over the past 12 years immigration policy developed by the Government has become more restrictive and hurts many people . |
| 23 | The UK shares market has been one of the most buoyant in the world and over the past 12 months £80 billion has flooded in from investors . |
| 24 | For instance , over the past three decades publishers have tended to produce more titles per year , but smaller numbers of copies of each title . |
| 25 | At Shell Chemicals UK ( which employs 920 workers , 122 of whom are women ) over the past three years women have accounted for 42 per cent of the intake into chemical marketing and 25 per cent of the manufacturing intake . |
| 26 | Over the past three months Bristol Babcock in my constituency has received export orders of £10 million . |
| 27 | The Training Department has also been involved in CCG 's expansion and over the past three months trainers have been delivering induction courses for our openings at SG Warburg , British Gas Heysham , Sunderland schools and recent public sector contracts . |
| 28 | Because of the political impasse over the past ten years Cambodia , one of the poorest countries in the world , has received no UN development aid , nor any bilateral or multilateral development aid from the UK . |
| 29 | Over the past ten years recruitment of nurses has been relatively ease Neither a great deal of effort nor man hours has been dedicated to the process . |
| 30 | Over the past few decades researchers have shown that chimps can create artworks ( abstract thought ) , use tools in a quite sophisticated fashion , and understand the concept of language : humans and chimps can use sign languages like Ameslan to communicate with each other to a reasonably advanced level . |