Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We decided Mervyn 's tremendous contribution — one of imagination and professionalism — over the six years he was secretary had to be acknowledged in some way . |
| 2 | Bankers have warned of ballooning costs over the 18 years it would take to build . |
| 3 | Over the succeeding years he repaid their great kindness with massive generosity . |
| 4 | His highly influential study ‘ Working for Ford ’ , was published in 1973 and over the succeeding years he has continued his studies of the changing strategies of multinational corporation in a variety of different contexts . |
| 5 | With December seeing only 2 full weeks activity and with Scotland enjoying its holiday over the New Year I trust Scottish colleagues enter 1991 appropriately refreshed and renewed . |
| 6 | John 's mother had been very ill over Christmas and over the New Year she had been admitted to hospital . |
| 7 | We had changed a lot over the four years we 'd been together . |
| 8 | John , one of the PPLs at our flying club , had made a beautiful job of building his little Jodel and I had followed his progress closely over the several years it had taken him to complete it . |
| 9 | OVER the 40 years I have talked to you at Christmas I have often spoken of the role Britain plays throughout the world . |
| 10 | ‘ Over the past year we noted an alarming 27 per cent increase in the number . |
| 11 | Over the past year we have seen a significant change in the Company 's shareholder base with approximately 13 per cent of our shares now held by US investors . |
| 12 | Not at first , but over the past year we have noticed weaknesses in most sectors in most countries . |
| 13 | Over the past year she had had various painful illnesses and eventually it had been diagnosed as a recurrence of cancer . |
| 14 | Sometimes over the past year she had wondered whether if Fernando had mentioned marriage it would have made any difference . |
| 15 | Over the past year I 've been threatened and blackmailed by a gang of youths . |
| 16 | Over the past year I have heard Edberg , Boris Becker , Michael Smith , Andre Agassi and Jim Courier , to mention just a few , bitterly critical of the situation . |
| 17 | Over the past year he has had eight sheep , one suckle-calf and a ram bitten by adders : the ram died . |
| 18 | Over the past year he had had more than a dozen screenplays rejected by The Little Magazine . |
| 19 | We are still passionately committed to our work in Africa , where over the past years we 've made 282 grants in 29 countries in support of both long term development and emergency work . |
| 20 | Over the past years we 've made well over 1000 grants to organisations all over the UK , some probably just round the corner from you . |
| 21 | Over the last year we have moved therefore from care support to urgent training of Romanian people who can then become effective educators . |
| 22 | Er was it ninety five people er over the last year we retained . |
| 23 | Over the last year it has dealt with enquiries from about 450 former service personnel . |
| 24 | Industrial production has been falling in many of the world 's largest economies — over the last year it has fallen 2 per cent in Italy ; by 2.5 per cent in France ; by 6.5 per cent in Germany ; and by 7 per cent in Japan . |
| 25 | ‘ Over the last year I 've had lunches with ITN 's Editor-in-Chief , with the chief executive , and with the Editor of Channel 3 , Dave Mannion . |
| 26 | Over the last year he had worked hard to create an image for himself and it was paying off . |
| 27 | get the figures , do I mean , we 're talking generalities , if you 're saying from what you know already the , the remote control gear is going to be sixteen double O four six eight O seven , and that is the best bearing arrangement that anybody could , anybody could produce , then , if that 's the answer , then for goodness sake get the figures , stick 'em in a memo so we can go and hit Peter , and make it quite clear to them that over the next year they 're going to lose half a million six double O ones , or whatever it is |
| 28 | Over the next year it has to save more than a million pounds to avoid being chargecapped : |
| 29 | And although the dominant enterprises in this sense have undoubtedly grown considerably in size , by any measure , over the post-war years it is not obvious that the operating units have grown in the same way . |
| 30 | The overall cost of the project over the ten years it will run is estimated to be in the region of £1.9 million , and an appeal for sponsorship by commercial sources and private individuals is to be launched early in 1993 . |