Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] over [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drivers of Italian heavy goods vehicles began a blockade of customs posts at the border with Austria on Sept. 13 , 1989 , causing tailbacks of several thousand lorries at the Brenner Pass and other crossing points over the next eight days . |
| 2 | In early February 1991 Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland had all begun negotiations on association agreements with the EC , which was offering a 10-year transition period to mutual free trade in two stages with asymmetrically large EC tariff cuts over the first five years in all sectors except agriculture , steel and textiles — the very areas where the three countries most desired access . |
| 3 | An economic agreement worth 7,200,000 million lire in the form of a government-guaranteed loan and export credits over the next five years , as announced by Italy on Oct. 18 , was also signed . |
| 4 | In line with other insurance companies , the group announced lower bonus rates for its life assurance and pensions schemes in response to poorer investment returns over the last few years . |
| 5 | If the sport grows over the next 10 years as quickly as it has in the past five , I could make a lot of money . ’ |
| 6 | The IRA 's bombing campaign cost the taxpayer a staggering £102.5m in compensation claims over the last 12 months . |
| 7 | The IRA 's bombing campaign cost the taxpayer a staggering £102.5m in compensation claims over the last 12 months . |
| 8 | He added that no household-name company had escaped making job cuts over the last two years . |
| 9 | About £35bn of Britain 's huge £50bn borrowing debt is due to the recession , and will be wiped out as the recovery continues over the next three years . |
| 10 | About £35bn of Britain 's huge £50bn borrowing debt is due to the recession , and will be wiped out as the recovery continues over the next three years . |
| 11 | ‘ A lot of shareholders have turned down generous takeover bids over the last few years and have regretted it , ’ he said . |
| 12 | As a programmer struggles over the fifth tedious revision of a 25-word frame , it is difficult to escape the conclusion that if he had worked this hard on every sentence of the textbooks he had written , these textbooks would probably teach as well as programmes … |
| 13 | If successful , the region 's bid for Objective One status within the EC would open the door to a multi-million pound package of regional development grants over the next six years . |
| 14 | It is absolutely clear and I want to make it clear that we may not be doing anything tomorrow or the next day , we 'll all be , we 'll all be try to understand and determine is how we will deal with the issues in as and if traffic develops over the next ten years or so and that strategy will then form the basis under which we will try to resist city area that we did not see there . |
| 15 | The orchestra swarms over the first movement like killer bees , and the fierceness of the finale redeems it from suspicions of empty triumphalism . |
| 16 | The training tempo increases over the next few weeks … as cox and crew alike attempt to learn all they can about the famous course . |
| 17 | We need to continue to pray that our financial needs will be met as the project progresses over the next few years . |
| 18 | Yes , well anybody can come in and trace their family , so long as they know that they came from Sussex at some point and they 've got something to work on , they 've got some idea of which town or which village they came from , then usually the Parish Registers and things like the Census Returns over the last hundred years are usually able to help them . |
| 19 | Then usually the parish registers and things like the census returns over the last hundred years are usually able to help them . |