Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] over the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | I mean over the last two years it 's been shock horror headlines , you know , will endowments fail to repay the loan , are endowments good value and I ke some of the journalists I 've read bef over the last two years have actually completely reversed what they said t two years ago when P E Ps were declining because of poor share markets and bonuses were coming through quite nicely on the endowments , they said oh endowments are the thing to do . |
2 | Well taking our rivers , first of all , have the rivers of Sussex changed very much in recent years , and when I say recent years I mean over the last few centuries ? |
3 | As to the type of employment the interesting feature that I experienced over the last two to three years as shown is that the inquiry level the type of inquiries has tended to focus on manufacturing and the attraction has been the quality of the work force , that is both in skill and its healthiness you know the liability and there are other issues in there too about where Britain is at these days in terms of immunisation wage levels , but it is the people that are themselves the major attractors so the potential work force in the locality that is the major attractor . |
4 | And I hope over the next few months that the people that 's present today and other people , get more involved in the campaign . |
5 | And I suppose over the last twelve month we must have had as many as a dozen of such inquiries wanted their stamp franked . |
6 | I think over the last few months , there 's been so much killing that maybe for me , that was the the watershed . |
7 | It was really only a very small group of students involved , but they got a lot of publicity and I think over the last few years it 's changed quite a lot . |
8 | But I have over the last six months had occasion to discuss this very matter with a number of very highly placed Americans , and it seems to me that thinking in that country is much more far-sighted than that represented by their countryman here . |
9 | Can I ask over the last six seven years what local companies have funded the playhouse and to what level ? and how many of actually withdrawn and the reasons why they actually withdrawn ? |
10 | The most fundamental need was to increase the area of water by the provision and enlargement of wet-docks and basins , the total acreage of which doubled over the last quarter of the eighteenth century as a prelude to a much greater expansion between 1800 and 1830 . |
11 | Look back at any crises which occurred over the last few years . |
12 | But if progress in the past couple of decades has appeared hectic , there is plenty to come over the next two . |
13 | LaBudde documented for the first time , on video and in his diaries , the suffering and death of thousands of dolphins in a tuna fishing practice known as ‘ fishing on porpoise' ’ , which has over the last 30 years killed between 6 and 12 million dolphins in the eastern Pacific . |
14 | It is another reminder of the sporting prowess of the man , who as Cabinet Secretary could prove a key player in the political drama which unfolds over the next few days . |
15 | Nothing happened over the next two days except the conclusion of the Crystal International Tournament , and a win for the ever-consistent Jose Miguel by one shot from the imported American star , Carl Krantz . |
16 | She hopped over the next puddle , then the next . |
17 | The manager and the members of staff sit down and they agree over the last twelve months which of these bits of training have you had either on the job or as forward training they are ticked off , what do you need over the next six months , let's make a programme . |
18 | That was her style in the Falklands and it remained her style in a number of the confrontations that she faced over the next years . |
19 | I 'm thinking of buying myself some ice skates , I 've been promising myself those , just , you know over the last few years when we have had a , just a bit , mind you there was one year about six years ago were n't it , where we were |
20 | well you know over the last few weeks we know that er |
21 | I have not forgotten that strange and distant glimmer on your face after you tipped over the last glass . ’ |
22 | When I was out on the road I mean before I came into training I was so I laid my cards at the table at this point in time to say yes I need to sell insurance erm and I always remember particular broker who you go in and and he 's saying well so how many of these particular products would you sell over the next year and he said oh twenty five and you go in great , guy 's promised to sell twenty five domestic contents policies over the next year . |
23 | The thought had no sooner entered her mind when she tripped over the first slat of the drawbridge and fell to her knees before she could save herself . |
24 | Again she went over the first few days of their itinerary in her mind . |
25 | and that 's can I phoning round everybody keeping tabs , what are you planning over the next three months , aha |
26 | There were five barges moored abreast here , and we climbed over the first four , greeting the startled crews as we went . |
27 | I reflected that I was sitting there letting her do so on the assumption that those notes would be our reference point for what we did over the next few weeks . |
28 | Buckingham did not realise at first that he had been the only one to get over the 23rd fence at the first attempt . |
29 | Er passenger transport , er we have over the last three four years er taken sort of er in passenger transport . |
30 | Er most of my points have actually dried up now , sir , in view of what Mr Cunnane has said , and also Mr Jewitt , erm I do actually , I would try to emphasize a point that the people who are proposing new settlements in this location have judiciously avoided the question of need this afternoon , well I think we we almost came to the point this morning that the shortfall was nine hundred and reducing almost on a month by month basis , er one or two quick points I would like to pick up , er in view of the erm small nature or the shortfall in housing supply that we see over the next fifteen years , I can not accept that to avoid the new settlement option would be prejudicial to greenbelt objectives , erm the housing land supply allocations are almost there , there are plans to run through which will un almost inevitably allocate additional sites inside the inner edge of the greenbelt boundary and outside the outer edge of the greenbelt boundary , but both within Greater York , which are bound to assist in making up the shortfall of provision , and probably , if I suspect rightly , would actually exceed it , erm erm I agree with Mr Cunnane on the question of the alternative expansion of existing towns or settlements , the same point really , we 're almost there anyway , the op that option is already there , it 's not that it might be there , it is it is there at the moment , er it 's not a clear expression of local preference , and I would also point out the option of the environmental improvements under the P P G criteria you asked us to look at , erm whether it 's a thousand houses , two thousand , two and a half thousand , whether it has a bowling alley , or a ten pin bowling alley , and a B and Q , and a , probably a Tesco as well , this form of development will not sit comfortably in open countryside , almost , wherever it 's put within the Greater York area , I defy anyone to produce a site where one can satisfactorily put er such a massive form of urban development and suggest it 's a positive environmental improvement . |