Example sentences of "[unc] over [art] [num ord] [adj] " 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 | I think that the districts there possibly given the exception of Selby have taken a rather cautious approach as to what they anticipate being built in their areas within the Greater York area itself er over the next thirteen years . |
| 3 | But Madam Deputy Speaker , these order do n't pay any attention to a number of matters in what I would regard as the public interest and whilst the minister as I say , has quite rightly paid tribute to professional organisations involved in this process , we must never forget that we 're here to represent the public interest and not just er er specific professional interests that may be relevant in each case and indeed in the light of what has happened in this field of enforcement er over the last two years , the minister must be aware that the public are requiring higher standards of commercial probity . |
| 4 | Now er over the last few days we 've been er talking quite a lot about er that statue you know the one that 's down by er down by Marks and Spencers that 's the best way to describe where it is the leaf stand the er the one that looks like a tulip and water dribbles down the side of it . |
| 5 | What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those . |
| 6 | more than sixty feet long and erm over the last two or three years er I 've made a patio at the bottom , right the whole width of the garden |
| 7 | Erm , I would like to close by saying that erm I just thought it would be just a nice idea that I would invite any of you members of the Council and wives who have n't got anything else to do on Christmas morning , if you fancy popping up to my house for a glass of sherry or whatever , just on a casual basis as a little thank you for what you 've done over the erm over the last twelve months , I extend that invitation to you all and District Councillors if they wish to come and I would like to say , on behalf of the Council , that I hope you all have a , this is the last full meeting , and to everybody here I hope you have a very nice happy peaceful Christmas and I hope we all go into the new year with renewed vigour . |
| 8 | Erm over the last three years . |
| 9 | On June 7 the government announced that a letter of intent had been signed with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , clearing the way for talks about loans worth US$103,000,000 over the next two years . |
| 10 | An agreement was signed for Spanish loans to Honduras totalling US$70,000,000 over the next four years , and Spanish financial participation in the building of a new airport near Tegucigalpa was confirmed . |
| 11 | The actual rate of completion per annum over the last 27 years has been less than one half of one percent … thus even at several times the projected rate of progress , the great bulk of the conservation task will be incomplete at a time when the most vigorous additional demand is placed on land from massive upsurge of population . |
| 12 | Costed at more than A$400,000,000 over the next 10 years , its main element was a revegetation programme to combat soil degradation , desertification and salinification , which would involve planting 1,000 million new trees in Australia by the year 2000 . |
| 13 | On Oct. 12 , 1990 , the Netherlands airline KLM announced a restructuring plan to save Fl400,000 over the next three years , involving 500 job losses by the end of 1992 . |
| 14 | He estimated that inflation had risen by 25 per cent over the first eleven months of 1989 and that the dinar had lost 50 per cent of its value since October 1989 . |
| 15 | UK beer sales have fallen some 7 per cent over the first three months of this year , due to a combination of poor weather and recession . |
| 16 | The government estimated that nearly one in three businesses would pay rate increases of more than 50 per cent over the first few years , with some paying more than double their previous bill . |
| 17 | The MTFS in 1980 planned for a reduction in public spending of 5 per cent over the next four years ; there was in fact an 8 per cent growth in real terms . |
| 18 | The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change has constantly warned governments that the business of reducing carbon dioxide emissions ( by 60 per cent over the next two or three decades ) can not be put off any longer . |
| 19 | The government on Oct. 15 made limited concessions to the unions over welfare cuts , lifting the ceiling on pension rises slightly to a total of 3.5 per cent over the next two years , and altering the annual income ceiling for eligibility for health concessions . |
| 20 | No one company has a big slice of the business and we 're aiming to increase our share by 10 or 11 per cent over the next two years . ’ |
| 21 | Centralised lender National Home Loans has a cap & collar deal where the mortgage interest rate will not rise above 14.49 per cent or fall below 10.99 per cent over the next five years .. |
| 22 | MR TRISTAN Garel-Jones , Foreign Office Minister , last night repeated the Government 's implacable opposition to plans of M Jacques Delors , EC Commission President , to raise the EC 's budget by 30 per cent over the next five years — a plan which would cost British taxpayers at least one billion pounds extra per year , writes Boris Johnson , EC Correspondent , in Luxembourg . |
| 23 | Endorsed by the federal Environmental Protection Agency , the " pollution prevention " package aims to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals into the Lakes by 50 per cent over the next five years . |
| 24 | THE GOVERNMENT 'S involvement in undermining attempts to freeze carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2000 ( Guardian , November 8 ) should perhaps be viewed together with the Department of Transport 's recently announced road-building programme , and projections that UK road traffic will increase by about 43 per cent over the next 20-30 years . |
| 25 | British energy studies estimate that total energy consumption could be reduced by anything between 10 and 65 per cent over the next 35 years — depending on the political will . |
| 26 | SCOTTISH Nuclear is considering buying fuel from abroad for its nuclear power stations at Torness and Hunterston as part of its drive to cuts its costs by 25 per cent over the next few years . |
| 27 | The loss per share rose last year from 0.4p to 12.4p as turnover dipped from £87.2 million to £83.3 million , in spite of production being maintained at about 24,000 barrels per day , which is forecast to rise by 60 per cent over the next 12 months . |
| 28 | At present rates , car usage is expected to grow by 70 per cent over the next 20 years . |
| 29 | Vehicle use is expected to grow by 70 per cent over the next 20 years . |
| 30 | The government also released a study which showed that planning policies which reduced the need for people to travel could cut pollution and fuel consumption by up to 15 per cent over the next 20 years . |