Example sentences of "[noun sg] over [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farman has claimed that the assertion of the chemical industry that its activities would only contribute 1 per cent to the green-house effect over the next 120 years are " seriously underestimated " . |
| 2 | Make arrangements satisfactory to patients and staff locally for the closure over the next ten years or so of those mental illness hospitals which are not well placed to provide a service reaching out into the community and are already near the end of their useful life . |
| 3 | There 's been something like twenty per cent cut over the last few years and erm some faculty members have taken early retirement and left , so a lot of subjects have lost some of their most able people . |
| 4 | She well be reviewing the foundation 's programme over the last few years with the aim of identifying any gaps or areas where new initiatives might be needed . |
| 5 | Mr Major wants to ensure that his drive to improve public services is translated into a practical programme over the next five years . |
| 6 | By the summer of 1967 , when he left the Department of Education and Science for the Board of Trade , £16m. had been made available for a building programme over the next two years , with a further £18m. to follow in 1971/2 . |
| 7 | In September 1989 a draft law was presented which aimed to facilitate a large-scale privatization programme over the next five years . |
| 8 | Ecotech-approved alternatives to other products in the PC range will be introduced in a rolling programme over the next five years . |
| 9 | A representative of the mainly-Muslim Bosnian army , which seized the village in fierce fighting over the last five days , said they would not be harmed if they stayed . |
| 10 | Menem also indicated that Argentina , in return for EC aid and improved trading arrangements , would be prepared to accept up to 300,000 immigrants from the former Eastern bloc over the next three years ; he discussed with EC commissioners the possible arrival of 40,000 immigrants in the short term . |
| 11 | Economic thinking over the last 40 years , the report observed , had shifted dramatically away from the promotion of state-directed industrialization towards a more " market-friendly " approach to development , but " markets sometimes prove inadequate or fail altogether " and " governments must , for example , invest in infrastructure and provide essential services to the poor " . |
| 12 | His own thinking over the next three years was developed , accordingly , through successive disagreements with Lyell 's views on the organic world , while he continued to accept his mentor 's teaching on the physical world of land , sea and climate changes . |
| 13 | COPING AWARD : a local laundry has offered Mrs J vouchers to cover fifty per cent of the cost of washing bed-linen over the next six months . ’ |
| 14 | Parcelforce has made a loss over the last two years , despite strong efforts to turn the business around . |
| 15 | Foinavon was the first horse over the twenty-third and found himself in a very long lead . |
| 16 | Oats are the safest and most natural grain to give to horses ; they have been part of the development of the horse over the last two thousand years . |
| 17 | This year 's profits will be used to help fund a record £1.5billion programme of investment over the next five years to cope with what is described as ‘ a phenomenal ’ growth in mail . |
| 18 | GERMANY 'S railway system will need £140 billion of investment over the next eight years and should be privatised to avoid a budgetary ‘ disaster ’ for taxpayers , the head of the rail network Heinz Durr told the government . |
| 19 | Last year , the government announced it would receive a $20 thousand million investment over the next five years , including private sector funds . |
| 20 | We prove it to them by demonstrating that the money we need for research and investment over the next few years is in place . |
| 21 | We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century . |
| 22 | South Africa has such a congested international itinerary over the next few season that there is going to be little opportunity for this country 's top players to even think in terms of county contracts . |
| 23 | Still panting , she struggled to maintain a vestige of self-respect as the press demanded a full briefing of her domestic itinerary over the last 24 hours . |
| 24 | I have immensely valued your advice , help , support , commitment , encouragement and above all your friendship over the last six years . |
| 25 | Superintendent if any other information had come to light over the next few hours would you have reconsidered the matter ? |
| 26 | A SOLDIER was killed by an IRA sniper last night — victim No. 3,001 in Ulster 's grim death toll over the last 23 years . |
| 27 | Yes Please ’ and problems within the Mondays taking their toll over the last year-and-a-half . |
| 28 | With luck this benign influence and economic motor could extend its benefits even deeper into the continent over the next decade . |
| 29 | Whilst there may well be every justification for such developments , which have been growing steadily since the 1950s but with increasing rapidity over the last decade , these emphases do undermine the notion of RBs as being wholly concerned with liberal adult education . |
| 30 | He likes Elland Road , he 's built up a squad that looks like it could develop into a REAL force over the next few years & he 'd be mad to leave for a job where he has a competition every 2 years/a draw 's a bad result/and nobody likes him ! |