Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] over the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The funds are currently being invested in our bogus companies ; their value will fall dramatically over the next six months . ’ |
| 2 | The generosity of people in the area so far gives them good cause to believe that they will succeed again over the next 12 months . |
| 3 | There seems to the writer little doubt that unemployment due to automation will grow steadily over the next few decades , perhaps centuries , and in the end it is likely to reach a very high figure , say ninety per cent of the labour force , unless radical changes are made in the present pattern of working . |
| 4 | As a family , therefore , we have perfectly happily left what little savings we could scrape together over the last 20 years or so with the Woolwich Building Society , whose efficiency and ethics we have never had any reason to doubt . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've made some contacts that I can follow up over the next couple of weeks . |
| 6 | This expectation has rather been confirmed than otherwise by the superimposition in the last two years of an element of graduation in the contribution , the additional yield of which for many years to come will mainly help to finance the standard pension but which creates a right to additions to it which will gradually build up over the next forty years on an actuarial basis . |
| 7 | It is amazing that , although agriculture in general faces cuts , if the proposals were adopted the CAP could cost more over the next seven years than it does now . |
| 8 | If the present deliberation of the UK 's Follett Committee are to be taken at all seriously , the research and teaching library as we now know it will change fundamentally over the next ten years . |
| 9 | As an innovator , what directions would you like to see archaeology go in over the next twenty years ? |
| 10 | Nonetheless , approximately 40% of those questioned still have separate computer and telecommunications departments , although Pflug does predict that these two functions will converge rapidly over the next three to five years . |
| 11 | It does n't matter where he/she finishes , but whether the coach is only asking the eight-year-olds to spring 50m or trying to get all the senior team to really race hard over the first 1500m , he or she must be seen to experience it too or the children simply wo n't believe the coach can know what he/she is talking about . |
| 12 | I hope that the waiting list for cardiac surgery will reduce greatly over the next year . |
| 13 | And er at the end of it I think we all felt we knew where we were going , and , and what the work that we 'd put in over the last three years on the management procedures , which form the foundations of our quality system . |
| 14 | You add up all the bills you know will come in over the next year — plus a bit more for contingencies — and divide by twelve . |
| 15 | Work on the Quality Development Programme has already started and will continue apace over the next year . |
| 16 | Inner London hospitals face a significant reduction in demand for in-patient beds , and the report says the total requirement will shrink substantially over the next five years . |
| 17 | I wanted to just pop away over the first few for him to get his confidence . |
| 18 | In parallel with predicted growth in the demand for energy and fuel , the Government assumes demand for raw materials such as building aggregates will increase dramatically over the next twenty years . |
| 19 | Future capital expenditure will therefore reduce substantially from peak 1992 levels and revenues from new production will increase considerably over the next few years . |