Example sentences of "over the following " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the following year Mirror readers as well as Guardian and Telegraph readers proved relatively stable in their political preferences . |
| 2 | Its most controversial suggestion to cut the financial burden on the state was to phase out SERPS over the following three years . |
| 3 | The bank says it expects its new purchase to break even in the first year and to be operating at a profit of $150m-200m a year over the following three years . |
| 4 | Over the following weeks , Portadown loyalists harassed the police in retaliation for what they claimed was police persecution . |
| 5 | Not all of the recipients of honours were backbenchers , and over the following years journalists , industrialists and bankers sympathetic to the cause were handed decorations of one kind or another . |
| 6 | Following the government retreat over the terms of the Directive in 1988 it was estimated that Anglian would have to spend £60-£70 million over the following 10 years to clean up the water supplies of Bedford and Norwich , along with a total 25 supplies that had been subject to derogations . |
| 7 | Outside , radioactive iodine was regularly released into the atmosphere over the following month . |
| 8 | Several changes in tenancy occurred over the following years , but by 1863 , iron founder James Ferrabee , of the Phoenix Iron Works , had taken over Port Mill . |
| 9 | Francis Tidbury received a certain amount of sympathy over the following few days , but the public were so outraged at the brutality involved , it carried little weight . |
| 10 | Over the following three years , I was to see the keys again and , more often , the deeds of ownership to lost land . |
| 11 | The fact that my attitude to this same suggestion underwent a change over the following days — indeed , that the notion of a trip to the West Country took an ever-increasing hold on my thoughts — is no doubt substantially attributable to — and why should I hide it ? — the arrival of Miss Kenton 's letter , her first in almost seven years if one discounts the Christmas cards . |
| 12 | Over the following days , however , I came to learn not to be surprised by such remarks from my employer , and would smile in the correct manner whenever I detected the bantering tone in his voice . |
| 13 | Incidentally , the working pattern of these bodyguards , so it transpired over the following days , entailed one or the other of them going up to sleep at unusual hours so as to ensure at least one was on duty throughout the night . |
| 14 | In May 1984 Charbonnages de France ( C de F ) , the state-owned coal company , announced that between 25,000 and 30,000 jobs would be lost over the following five years . |
| 15 | Over the following five years , in a textbook case of the value of basic research , the microprocessor programmers learned to adapt the ideas worked out by the academic researchers , and in doing so created a new , if quite small , industry . |
| 16 | Over the following fortnight , during which the Home Office recommends that people cocoon themselves in some form of shelter , the dose of radiation For each individual not in a shelter would be 450 rems . |
| 17 | Over the following months , they pushed through Congress a five-year multidisciplinary research project , one of the world 's most intense examinations of marine pollution , to diagnose the ills of the bay . |
| 18 | Over the following pages we profile the winners , but first let us remember the past year with a whirlwind tour … |
| 19 | Eventually , the slurry not only reached the bottom of the main shaft , over the following 24 hours it rose 16 feet up it . |
| 20 | Offered an any time , any place rescheduling of the tests over the following three months ( Business even offered to fly Hamilton-Phillips on a trip to the Far East with one ) , they still declined to change their minds . |
| 21 | This will then be recorded over the following three days alongside Debussy 's La Mer and Printemps for the tenth and final volume in his highly successful Ravel/Debussy series for Chandos . |
| 22 | What happened in the relay at the European Championships bears an important relationship to some of the friction , argument and unpleasantness that occurred , mostly between Frank Dick and me , over the following two years , so it is important to record an unbiased , respected outsider 's view of what actually took place . |
| 23 | The proportion of rooms held back for this purpose is renegotiated annually : Winter has agreed to continue the 1985 arrangements over the following summer , i.e. 30 per cent over June-August and 15 per cent in May and September . |
| 24 | The first part of the relief becomes available one full year after disposal of the shares , and the rest is available in equal instalments over the following nine years . |
| 25 | I think he expected that to be the end of it , since he continued to be surprised and concerned every time lesbianism came up , in whatever form , over the following seven years . |
| 26 | Parts of the aircraft were missing when Harris purchased 133722 , and over the following two years , the tail assembly , engine , engine mount , cowlings , and many other portions of the aircraft had to be located , acquired , modified or made . |
| 27 | The rest took early retirement at different points over the following three years . |
| 28 | Tajan will then auction a choice of the best works at the Sporting d'hiver in Monaco on 13 and14 March before returning to the villa to sell the remainder in situ over the following four days . |
| 29 | Sceptics might feel that they betrayed a lack of informed thought on the issue of objectives ; and certainly a good deal of the time of the economic planners , the Treasury , the Ministry and the industry over the following decades was to be devoted to the search for more meaningful objectives and standards of performance to supplement these minimal statutory requirements . |
| 30 | The broadsheet populars comprised a middle market — middle class and middle brow — which became steadily less distinguishable over the following decade . |