Example sentences of "over the [num ord] year [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Response over the first year to the new look has been ‘ overwhelmingly positive — if the yardstick is a demand for the paper . |
| 2 | Jonathan designed the power-assisted pushbike over the last year as a pupil at Ballyclare High School . |
| 3 | USL chairman , AT&T executive Bob Kavner , says he talked with Ray Noorda on and off over the last year about acquiring USL . |
| 4 | ‘ What I have been interested to witness over the last year to 18 months is a newly confident Left in the Socialist International saying we have a common formulation about the best way to proceed . |
| 5 | This line did not meet with the approval of the IRA hardliners , who have escalated the violence in Northern Ireland over the last year to an intensity not seen since the worst days of the 1970s . |
| 6 | The number of companies mentioning environmental issues in their annual reports has doubled over the last year to around 18 per cent of the total . |
| 7 | Millions Of Honey opened Saturday night with a sparky set of robust , melodic guitar songs that have toughened and matured over the last year of line-up shuffles , and should justly set them up for a spot of national service . |
| 8 | The chairman thanked all those who had worked hard and tirelessly over the last year for the benefit of the club and its members . |
| 9 | that it has reduced over the last year at Thornhill and I do know that we have agreed in our budget for this coming year to put in closed circuit television at all four Park and Ride car parks , which presumably will reduce it at the others as well . |
| 10 | There has been a major increase over the last year in the number of disqualification proceedings taken out against directors , according to the Insolvency Service . |
| 11 | Consequently , an active programme of asset disposals has been under way over the last year in order to reduce the group 's high level of debt , which was the result of decisions to develop new oil and gas fields over the last few years , as well as the additional debt burden inherited following the acquisition of Ultramar . |
| 12 | Reports also indicated continuing differences over interest rates [ see pp. 37977-78 ; 38170 ; 38314 ] following a rise in inflation over the last year in six of the G-7 countries . |
| 13 | Particularly encouraging to the E&P management has been a gain over the last year in net income to the equivalent of about $3.50 per barrel of oil produced , putting BP well ahead of the performance of most other oil majors judged by the same yardstick and only marginally behind Exxon , the largest US oil company . |
| 14 | Everybody 's aware that this may well be the last Gen , the last Party Conference before the General Election , and what is more , of , an impression of the terrific progress that the Labour Party 's made in recent years , and further gains over the last year in terms of public support , so that we really are on the threshold of a General Election campaign which we realistically hope to win , and we 've got the policies in place to meet the needs of the nation for the nineties . |
| 15 | There has been a fascinating increase of interest over the last year by general practitioners in the use of defibrillators . |
| 16 | City experts say profits could halve over the next year as the other supermarket chains eat into Gateway 's market share . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | MORE than 2000 houses will be provided in Lothian over the next year in the largest investment programme yet undertaken by Scottish Homes . |
| 19 | The WWF also launched a Caring for the Earth Campaign for Change , seeking pledges from individuals to make personal contributions to the strategy 's goals over the next year by using energy-efficient light bulbs , cutting car mileage by 25 per cent , planting 10 trees and helping to organize recycling initiatives at their workplace . |