Example sentences of "[no cls] over [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had a er not the best of starts but they 've taken control of the game for my money o over the last period . |
| 2 | Er was it ninety five people er over the last year we retained . |
| 3 | But that is quite impressive figures for us , I mean we 've never seen that sort of volumes of figures before , but erm over the last year or two I mean tour operators have worked far more closely with travel agents in promoting U K products . |
| 4 | We look very carefully at any new posts that we create , and we constantly look to see whether there are posts that we can get rid of erm and we have , in fact , shed a great many posts erm over the last year erm and we are constantly reviewing the efficiency of our service delivery . |
| 5 | Professor Hoskins , basing his cost-of-living calculation on a range of local price data , not simply cereals , calculated that whereas real wages of labourers and craftsmen fell by around 30 per cent over the second half of the eighteenth century , those of most woollen workers fell by nearer 50 per cent . |
| 6 | The government announced on Nov. 8 that it would allow the value of the shekel to fall by 11 per cent over the next year in an attempt to bolster growth . |
| 7 | In this they were supported by a report from the Royal Bank of Canada which suggested that , if Canada fragmented , its annual economic growth rate would average only 1 per cent over the next decade ( rather than the projected 3 per cent if the country remained intact ) and that by the end of the century its unemployment level would have increased to 10-15 per cent ( rather than 7-11 per cent ) . |
| 8 | It sets the target of reducing atmospheric pollution by 40 per cent over the next decade , and of stabilizing carbon dioxide emissions at their present level by the year 2000 ( fast becoming the widely accepted consensus target — see EDs 39 and 40 ) . |
| 9 | The US car industry has formed a new alliance to challenge a bill which would compel car makers to increase fuel efficiency by 40 per cent over the next decade . |
| 10 | Thames Water insist with demand for water growing by 40 per cent over the next quarter century , they must build a new reservoir . |
| 11 | Total airline traffic had risen 72 per cent over the last decade . |
| 12 | Deaths from asthma in various regions have risen by 30-60 per cent over the last decade , and one in seven children have now been diagnosed as suffering from the condition . |
| 13 | The number of Scottish children on income support has increased by 122 per cent over the last decade . |
| 14 | The salaries of senior directors have been rising by between 20 per cent and 30 per cent over the last year and the trend shows little sign of slowing . |