Example sentences of "[noun pl] over [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not clear if the Government 's tactics over the last few days are typical of the muddle that has beset it in recent months or if it is deliberately designed to throw its opponents into confusion . |
| 2 | The government agreed to clear US$90,000,000 of official arrears on external payments by the end of March 1991 , and to allow the island 's commercial banks to clear a further US$157,000,000 in private-sector arrears over the next 30 months through a series of bond issues . |
| 3 | It 's been a great weight on my shoulders over the last month . |
| 4 | In a report to the schools subcommittee , director of education Keith Mitchell said more than £1m was available for the development of nursery schools over the next two years . |
| 5 | The rise of the international business schools over the last decades and the substantial increase in the numbers of Third World students in the universities and technical institutes of the First World have provided an ever-increasing pool of potential local employees for the TNCs , and recruitment is brisk . |
| 6 | NeXT says it also has a $3m contract for 400 NeXTstation computers over the next 18 months from Mobil Oil Corp 's Mobil Sales & Supply Corp , which wants them to serve as traders ' workstations . |
| 7 | And SEARS , the high street stores giant which sells Dolcis and Saxone shoes , is closing 350 shops over the next three years with the loss of 1,700 people . |
| 8 | There were ten further performances over the next eight days . |
| 9 | With performances over the next couple of seasons helping to decide which club gains promotion to the All-Ireland League set-up , it is vital that clubs get off to a good start . |
| 10 | Hours went by as I dragged my legs over the next few miles . |
| 11 | Fernhart estimates it will shift around 48 TSMDesk units over the next year , generating around a third of its total income and hopefully boosting its turnover from last year 's £2.6m to over £3m in , 1992–3 . |
| 12 | As a result , HDS , which PRC bid as part of its offering , could see orders potentially worth 43,000 units over the next five years , an estimated value of $75m . |
| 13 | In a report to the schools subcommittee , director of education Keith Mitchell says more than £1m is available for the development of nursery units over the next two years . |
| 14 | Central government has sunk over 1,200 waterholes in southern and western provinces over the last ten years , and continues to sink about 150 boreholes a year in Lusaka alone . |
| 15 | Market makers have been running ‘ flat ’ trading books over the last few days to minimise their risk . |
| 16 | ‘ We have made very consistent efforts to brand Phaidon books over the last few years , putting the Phaidon name on the front and back of all our books as a brand image of quality , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Mr Major said that not only had the Budget extended the export credit guarantee scheme but : ‘ Mr Lamont has also cut premiums over the last few months by as much as 27 per cent to help exporters . ’ |
| 18 | Expansion of Career Development Loans to provide 60,000 more opportunities over the next three years |
| 19 | Are there any ways that we can support you : on the job training opportunities over the next twelve months ? ’ |
| 20 | Despite legal changes , smaller families and improved educational and employment opportunities over the last century or so , marked inequalities remain between the social and economic roles of men and women . |
| 21 | As kite-makers and everyday enthusiasts for kite flying , the Peacock family of St.Albans had also been the winners over the first two years of the Kite Society 's Rokkaku Challenge . |
| 22 | It reckons more than 8,400 new jet airliners will be sold by western manufacturers over the next 15 years , worth more than $500 billion ( see chart overleaf ) . |
| 23 | ‘ If you are in quality stocks with strong balance sheets in less cyclical areas of the market you will do well in equities over the next few years . ’ |
| 24 | Yet the current momentum of industrial development is expected to result in the disappearance of no less than 20,000 species of plants and animals over the next decade . |
| 25 | Human population expansion is threatening to lead to unprecedented extinctions of plants and animals over the next 50 years , according to a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) . |
| 26 | The fast-swimming Dall 's porpoise has been particularly hard hit in the North Pacific and hundreds of thousands of animals over the last 20 years have been entangled in the giant drift-nets of the salmon , squid , and tuna fisheries . |
| 27 | Dolphin , which has been developing SCI over the last two years , will add its own SCI-based multi-processing system using the Motorola Inc 88110 later this year . |
| 28 | A better understanding of the normal physiology , developmental anatomy , and pathology of the prepuce could prevent the removal of thousands of normal foreskins over the next 20 years . |
| 29 | Hank Holland , president and chief executive , said the firm would continue to support its E and M mainframe series software for another seven to 10 years , but would start to reduce research and development expenditure in favour of client-server environments over the next three years . |
| 30 | We think that it conserves services , that it has searched out the vast majority of efficiencies that we can find within this council and that it does n't pass on to the poll tax , council tax payers the fruits , I mean it does pass on the poll tax or council tax payers the fruits of how we have achieved savings and efficiencies over the last couple of years . |