Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] over [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The structure of this is interesting as over the last few years most software house have added default actions , verbs or options to their interface — Sierra have almost taken the opposite course by simplifying their system which now has a basic choice of some half a dozen actions . |
| 2 | Harris Corp 's current mix of home-grown to purchased products is around 80:20 but over the next three to five years , O'Donnell expects this ratio to be reversed . |
| 3 | She embarked on the column in 1981 and over the next 11 years became , if hardly the guardian of people 's secrets , nonetheless a gushing fount of comforting advice . |
| 4 | It is evident that over the last hundred years or so mid realizations have been spreading at the expense of low realizations . |
| 5 | Like other fair-minded people , we wanted to see more help given to these parents and their children ; and it was plain that over the next ten years or so Parliament would be doing that , and our scheme would be one of the instruments used for that purpose . |
| 6 | The easier areas of supply are beginning to become saturated and over the last few years more effort has tended to be put into SUPPLYING gas to outlying villages which , because of the application of modern pipelaying techniques , and the subsequent reduction in unit costs , have become more attractive . |
| 7 | ‘ I am really pleased that over the last three years I have been able to show that part-time working can work without any difficulty . |
| 8 | Armed with the classic mandarin 's pedigree , he joined the Treasury in 1961 and over the next 27 years he bounced between his first department and Downing Street , with the pattern being broken only by a spell with the Bank of England and City institutions in 1969 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The raid netted him £500 million and over the next few weeks he made his strategy clear . |
| 11 | This year , the number of cars on Britain 's roads will reach twenty million and over the next thirty-five years , that number is set to double . |
| 12 | The FT-SE 100 Index shed around 4 points at 2717.9 at the close but over the next few weeks all eyes will be on the pound . |
| 13 | We 've actually had a pick up , there 's been a sort of renewed interest , er , it 's quite significant that over the last month or so , there 's been quite an increase in , in people making enquiries about those units . |
| 14 | In a departure from the stance of previous governments , the government announced in February 1990 that over the next five years it proposed to pay Sch300,000,000 in reparations to Austrian Jews who had fled the country after the Anschluss ( the forcible union of Austria with Nazi Germany in 1938 ) and who had not previously received compensation . |