Example sentences of "[to-vb] over the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only the Department of Education and Science would take a leaf out of C&P 's book when introducing some of the fundamental changes that education has had to absorb over the last few years ! |
| 2 | The pace of investment is planned to increase over the next five years with over £50 million of expenditure planned in new and improved port facilities and associated infrastructure . |
| 3 | Though the number of people over the age of 65 is predicted not to increase over the next 10 years and to rise slowly thereafter , the profile of this group will change considerably . |
| 4 | But we 're now reasonably confident that we will continue to increase over the next few years and are budgeting for a modest growth . ’ |
| 5 | But if progress in the past couple of decades has appeared hectic , there is plenty to come over the next two . |
| 6 | Now if you 're a horse racing fan … the brain will be galloping … the mouth watering … at the thought of what 's to come over the next few weeks … |
| 7 | But it has also been argued that the basic features of positivism applied to all causal theories of crime , whether biological ( as in the case of the founding fathers ) , psychological or sociological , that were to appear over the next half century or more ( Jeffery , 1960 ; Matza , 1964 ) . |
| 8 | With the humidity likely to lessen over the next 24 hours , Bristol 's all-sand circuit should be in perfect nick for front-running Lady Riptide . |
| 9 | It is the response of the supermarket business as a whole to the demand for a healthier and more natural product , freshly produced to a high standard , which has led to the advent of the in-store bakery , and in turn created the need , at any rate within Sainsbury 's , for structured , high quality management training , geared much more towards how we plan the business to grow over the next five to ten years than it is to simply manning the pumps . |
| 10 | These these are a measure are n't they they 're a measure of the quality of what we 're going to do over the next two days and therefore I will come back to these tomorrow afternoon I will check through them and if everybody can say yes yes I 'm satisfied with that then we 've achieved what we set out to achieve today . |
| 11 | Okay then let me just by way of er introduction er to the concepts and the content of what we 're going to do over the next two days let me just put a very small fraction of a picture up here . |
| 12 | ‘ In the meantime you are free to do whatever you wish to do over the next few weeks . |
| 13 | Kirov assessed the scant information he had managed to accumulate over the last few weeks . |
| 14 | It has a number of clearly defined aims to pursue over the next three years . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to ride over the next big bore at Stonebench . ’ |
| 16 | 80,000 ft of purpose built warehousing for goods in transit is ready for occupation and this replacement programme is planned to continue over the next few years . |
| 17 | They did a first class piece of work on where the housing market was likely to go over the next 10 years . |
| 18 | In addition , the ending of the Iran/Iraq conflict has meant that there is now more oil on world markets and the price of oil has tended to fall over the last few months . |
| 19 | The rate of disconnections fell by nearly 50% , and should continue to fall over the next six months . |
| 20 | Lastly , the number of potential first-time buyers in their 20s was set to fall over the next two decades , reducing demand for homes . |
| 21 | The bulletin said : ‘ This gives rise to the hope that the rate of increase may start to fall over the next few quarters . ’ |
| 22 | He knew the cruelty she was going to witness over the next three months would be agony for her because , for some reason , she trusted animals far more than humans , but , like a nurse looking after animals in a vivisection clinic , he could n't prevent her pain , only alleviate it as much as possible . |
| 23 | As a result , Uzzell reckons that the market is likely to polarise over the next few years . |
| 24 | For instance there is electronic software distribution , an area that Legent reckons is set to explode over the next five years . |
| 25 | Many of your values , ideas and attitudes are set to change over the next twelve months . |
| 26 | Apart from the UK and Scandinavian countries , penetration is still low in Europe , but this is expected to change over the next few years as telecommunications markets are opened up . |
| 27 | Are your needs likely to change over the next few years-will you have children to cope with ; are you likely to entertain more often than you do at present ? |
| 28 | However , the current situation is likely to change over the next few years , as major advances in technology take place . |
| 29 | Jeffrey : I think that lesbians and gay men have been very creative in the sort of relationships they have tried to develop over the last fifteen years — because it 's very easy simply to copy the models which we are presented with . |
| 30 | British television was created with this idea in its heart , and has continued to develop over the last fifty years with these ideals firmly at the forefront . |