Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] over the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of this and he 's not even recovering from any broken bones ( Ben 's specialty over the last few years has been to break a bone and then come back and do or repeat the world 's hardest route ! ) |
| 2 | ‘ York 's football over the last two years makes Berwick v Arbroath relatively breathtaking , ’ he says . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ THORP is already a successful project which will underpin BNFL 's profitability over the next 25 years , ’ said Ken Jackson , who was project director for five-and-a-half years . |
| 5 | uses now the reason we need , not just nuclear power of course , but all other sources of energy er is erm illustrated by these next couple of slides erm I 'm sure you 've seen data like this before growth in the world 's population over the last er few hundred years erm over the middle ages the er world 's population was fairly stable , although the birth rate was high er the death rate was equally high because of things like cholera and bubonic plague and smallpox and other things that used to kill people off in large numbers . |
| 6 | The UN Fund for Population Activities ( UNFPA ) has revised upwards its projections of the growth of the world 's population over the next century . |
| 7 | Sedgefield Labour MP Tony Blair : ‘ Our commitment to the NHS , and to the elderly and families by increasing pensions and child benefits will bring to Government a sense of community and the need to help others so obviously missing from the Conservative party 's agenda over the last 13 years . ’ |
| 8 | Despite her doubts about the Government 's policy over the last 13 years Ms Rorstad said she remains a floating voter . |
| 9 | And a bounce in the region 's economy over the next few years will soon have the city on the mend . |
| 10 | An exciting development in the women 's movement over the last few years has been an attempt by feminists to organise together around housing issues and to develop a feminist analysis of how the organisation of housing in Britain specifically affects women . |
| 11 | I would like to thank him for his considerable contribution to the company 's success over the last three years . |
| 12 | Griffith , is to head a West Indies Cricket Board of Control special committee to ‘ devise a strategic plan covering the Board 's operation over the next five years ’ . |
| 13 | They had enjoyed each other 's company over the last hour , hacking along the foreshore of the estuary . |
| 14 | The exhibition , which continues until May 2nd , will illustrate the changes in the county 's landscape over the last century . |
| 15 | Developments in the UK incentives ' field over the last month have focused mainly on policy announcements rather than on changes to particular schemes of assistance . |
| 16 | They will examine the social importance of journalists ' work over the last 25 years , particularly with regards to the Troubles . |
| 17 | Sir : The Institute of Statisticians ' role over the last 40 years has been to promote and protect the professional integrity of statisticians not only in this country but in the many others covered by our membership ( 'Wide support for impartial check on official statistics ' , 10 October ) . |
| 18 | That is indeed part of their strategy but the fact of the matter is that the county council is wholly implicated in the efforts that have been made in this erm county over the last couple of years to get large scale inward investment . |
| 19 | As your Qualified Teachers ' representative over the last four years I have witnessed many new and exciting changes taking place within the Medau Society . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It suggests that the market will continue to show growth of 2.9 per cent pa over the next five years despite the major question mark over recyclability and solvent emissions . |
| 22 | The amount of silt that the Huanghe brings to the China Sea ( 1.6 × 10 t per year ) represents a 25 per cent increase over the last 30 years and is due mainly to the conversion of grasslands to arable fields ( Smil 1987b ) . |