Example sentences of "over [art] [num ord] [det] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Managers should never be administrators Over the last few decades the distinction between leaders , managers and administrators has become increasingly blurred , to the detriment of profit and people alike . |
| 2 | Over the last few months the republic had been buoyed by waves of euphoria . |
| 3 | Over the last few weeks the villagers had noticed how his moods changed from wild despair to feverish excitement . |
| 4 | Over the last few years a breed of bouncer has evolved , a Rottweiler in a bow-tie , who likes doing serious harm to lippy young men . |
| 5 | However , it is that means that over the last few years every time we have actually debated about budget we recognised that the force had unwillingly and against the judgement of the majority of this council , not necessarily er bounded by political affiliation , we have to be getting down further and further towards the completely inaccurate expanded spending assessment that is assessed as necessary for the needs of this city by the department of the environment . |
| 6 | Over the last few years the house has changed hands many times . |
| 7 | Over the last few years the landscape had changed . |
| 8 | Over the last few years the number of public television groups within the PBAA has grown steadily , and extensive technical expertise has been developed as more than twenty test broadcasts across Australia have taken place . |
| 9 | Over the last few years the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) has been active in consulting with British industry and encouraging it to be competitive in the European market . |
| 10 | Over the last few years the t Tory government has reduced the amount of wages inspectors . |
| 11 | Over the last few years the members allowances have been reduced , er , er have been underspent quite considerably on the amount that 's been allowed . |
| 12 | Over the next few months the school became more and more deserted . |
| 13 | Over the next few months the government will be deciding whether to freeze Child Benefit for the 4th year running . |
| 14 | Over the next few months the two product ranges will be harmonised and the merger also means a combined , and enlarged , research and development team . |
| 15 | Disquiet at the new direction of religious affairs soon surfaced in parliament , and over the next few years a growing number of MPs began to speak out against the Arminian threat . |
| 16 | Over the next few years a keen struggle was waged to the entire satisfaction of neither nation . |
| 17 | Over the next few years the book saw suggestions for all manner of things — for packet tobaccos to be sold at shop prices , for a device to be put on the smoking room door to stop persistent slamming and a complaint that the bushes on the 5th made the hole a flukey . |
| 18 | Over the next few years the Assistant Librarian , Miss Liddell , probably got fed up with the sight of me as I used to get through several books each week and must have read most of the stock . |
| 19 | The basis for that is that over the next few years the South Africans will be on an upward learning curve after being without international competition for so long . |
| 20 | Over the next few years the numbers of separatists grew . |
| 21 | Over the next few years the planning of urban motorways had considerable impact on the metropolitan areas of the West Midlands , Greater Manchester , Merseyside and Greater Glasgow , and the M4 , snaking across West London , was the longest road viaduct in Europe . |
| 22 | It seems certain that over the next few years the returns for all the work done did not satisfy Taylor , who wrote again in 1840 to the acting agent Moser , asking for a reduction of the Royalties to one-fifteenth . |
| 23 | Over the next few days the press was busy reporting doubts about the political wisdom of abolishing SERPS among ‘ ministers and Conservative MPs ’ while the Opposition tabled a censure motion calling on the Government to withdraw its plans to abolish SERPS and its ‘ callous dismantling of the Welfare State ’ . |
| 24 | Over the next few days the local Maquis had gathered them up , somewhat improbably , in a bright red thirty-two-seater bus ! |
| 25 | Over the next few days the CNAA report was national news . |
| 26 | Over the next few days the mystery deepened . |