Example sentences of "[verb] over the [adj] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hoped that the worst of the damage will be repaired over the next two to three years . |
| 2 | If you actually look at what we 've paid for some of the players say over the last two or three years , I guess you 're looking at about three hundred and fifty thousand pounds . |
| 3 | It was suggested that too much VAT had been claimed over the previous two years . |
| 4 | It was suggested that too much VAT had been claimed over the previous two years . |
| 5 | Further clashes occurred over the following two weeks , and on Dec. 6 two high-school students were killed . |
| 6 | It was a black day for Chancellor Kohl whose personal popularity has been steadily eroded over the past two years and whose ability to provide the CDU with effective leadership will be questioned more seriously than before . |
| 7 | ‘ We have reviewed the results and the fact is we lost as many as we have won over the last two seasons , ’ said Bates . |
| 8 | But if progress in the past couple of decades has appeared hectic , there is plenty to come over the next two . |
| 9 | We cooked dinner , packed up things we did not need over the next two days and had a group meeting to discuss the itinerary for our journey home . |
| 10 | But Horton , determined to make amends for missing out by such a narrow margin last year , moved to the front with an excellent 68 but with Coles so close to him , nothing can be taken for granted over the final two rounds . |
| 11 | An important element is the development of a database recording all the 100,000 ships built over the last two centuries . |
| 12 | ( i ) Is the applicant required to attend a training course , and if so , how many ? ( a ) The application form for panel membership will ask for details of training courses applicants have attended over the past two or three years . |
| 13 | The offensive was an attempt both to consolidate gains made over the previous two months and to wrest control of the main road and rail links to Thailand . |
| 14 | He decided the wisest course was to pool all he had made over the last two years , enabling Julian to purchase the lease of a high street property . |
| 15 | Trounson says that 13 frozen embryos have been transferred over the past two years , but until this week none has been successful . |
| 16 | For various reasons including the growth of the elderly population , the fall in the birth rate , the increase in the number of young adults and the rising divorce rate , the long-term trend towards smaller average household size has continued and even accelerated over the past two decades . |
| 17 | A great deal has been said and written over the past two years about East European grandees being given back their property , but reality lags behind the talk . |
| 18 | Next up the quality ladder is desktop publishing of which much has been written over the past two years . |
| 19 | Certainly , there is evidence that the number of women convicted of assaults , woundings and violent crime has risen over the last two decades . |
| 20 | It may be correct that these properties would fall into this Band at 1993 values , but values have risen over the past two years ( despite national trends in house prices ) . |
| 21 | ‘ What we have done over the past two years is to improve on our ability to retain the ball in contact , to drive very successfully as units ( as the All Blacks found to their cost in Lille ) and to deep those drives going . |
| 22 | Erm , on entertainment , we 're spending a lot of money on organic growth and have done over the past two or three years and er , it 's very well spent but again , we 're growing our businesses , erm , er , rather than acquiring them . |
| 23 | This positive momentum has accelerated over the last two or three years , though the Campaign is the first to recognise that it is only a modest part of a much larger movement . |
| 24 | Major deals over the past two years have included leasing for the new ethylene cracker ( a type of refinery ) for BP at Grangemouth , at that time thought to be the largest leasing deal in Britain , a £180m long-term facility to North West Water to finance major infrastructure projects , and a £75m deal with Fujitsu Microelectronics to fund investment in semiconductor equipment at its factory at Newton Aycliffe , County Durham . |
| 25 | A Health Ministry report released on March 9 said that a further 21,772 Iraqis , of whom 8,081 were children under five , had died over the past two months from a shortage of humanitarian supplies [ see also pp. 38696 ; 38742 ; 38789 ] . |
| 26 | Up to 1,500 Indians may have died over the last two years as a result of the gold miners ' presence on their land . |
| 27 | He added that no household-name company had escaped making job cuts over the last two years . |
| 28 | The operation , run by the police , Army and Air Force , was to last 60 days and was to result in the eviction of all garimpeiros from the 2,000-sq km reserve which had been progressively invaded over the previous two to three years . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | So many things happened over the last two rounds , it 's sometimes hard to remember the first two ; I just know it was Trevino versus Jacklin again in the third round and , of course , they were playing together once more . |