Example sentences of "over [art] [num ord] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the oral phases , extending over the first year or so of life , his main concerns involve activities like sucking , swallowing and biting ; and the nature of his oral experiences during this period will have considerable repercussions in the long as well as the short term . |
| 2 | Competent teachers try not to convey too many ideas during first lectures but increase the " density " of lectures over the first year . |
| 3 | Over the first year shown , Inner London fared relatively well , with an average overall increase in assessed expenditure needs of 7.2 per cent , and Outer London and the Shire Counties had relatively small increases overall ( 2.6 and 2.7 per cent respectively ) . |
| 4 | Erm the actual percentage of the ingredients used over the first year erm is about five percent for water , twenty three point six percent for the bottle , I 'll explain that later that 's quite high , the cap is four percent , one percent for the gassing , erm one percent for the case , two point seven percent for labour , four percent for transport , a general overhead would be about seventeen point one percent . |
| 5 | Response over the first year to the new look has been ‘ overwhelmingly positive — if the yardstick is a demand for the paper . |
| 6 | Travelling to several countries over the last year , has brought it home to me how disastrous are the effects , worldwide , of the virus causing AIDS . |
| 7 | I am pleased to report further extensions of home care over the last year to meet the growing needs in Glasgow and also to cover a greater area of the South Coast and the East Midlands . |
| 8 | Over the last year we have moved therefore from care support to urgent training of Romanian people who can then become effective educators . |
| 9 | Over the last year ACET 's centres in Dundee , Edinburgh and Glasgow have been asked to care for a growing number needing practical help to stay at home . |
| 10 | Over the last year , 24,000 pupils attended ACET class presentations , as against 14,500 in 1989/90 . |
| 11 | Over the last year thousands of films have been produced all over the world . |
| 12 | Every song on the album contains something of my own experience over the last year but the words are applicable to everyone . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 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 . |
| 15 | If your weight has gone up and down over the last year ( or ten years ! ) try to remember when and why it was up or down . |
| 16 | As widely predicted in the City , which has marked Costain shares down nearly 75 p.c. over the last year , there is no final dividend , leaving the interim of 43/4p the sole payout , compared with a total of 12¼p last time . |
| 17 | Bingham has had a number of options available over the last year but always contended that Rogan , irrespective of his omission , was still very much part of the set-up . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Average working hours have dropped by 40 minutes over the last year , implying either the need for less overtime or further indications that management is keeping a tighter control on costs while continuing to improve productivity . |
| 20 | PAY settlements in manufacturing industry are now only slightly ahead of inflation , after halving over the last year , according to revised figures released yesterday by the Confederation of British Industry . |
| 21 | I could n't believe it , especially when Graham Gooch had played so well over the last year . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ This and growing business confidence over the last year should mean better news for jobs and those out of work , ’ she said . |
| 23 | I have seen frequently over the last year and I have been very grateful for her friendship , not to mention the clothes she has lent me which her daughter has outgrown . |
| 24 | Even less visible except to immediate participants and police is the routine ‘ slow rioting ’ of Saturday night street brawling , which ( according to the perceptions of all the chiefs constables I have interviewed in a research project over the last year ) is assuming more menacing and violent proportions throughout the country . |
| 25 | But over the last year there was a 3.3 percent decline in prices , compared with 2 percent for 1990 , according to the company 's business facts , which puts the average price at £128,598 . |
| 26 | It is also clear that only about 1–2% of our rivers have access agreements for anyone at all for any parts of their lengths at any time , a significant part of that minute percentage resulting from the work of Adam Box 's team in the Wessex Water area over the last year . |
| 27 | Anyone involved with PCs can hardly have failed to notice the dramatic price reductions in PCs over the last year . |
| 28 | Over the last year or two my playing has deteriorated to the extent that I am now virtually a one-fingered guitarist ! |
| 29 | Despite endorsing DCC on their world tour over the last year , Straits manager Ed Bicknell instructed record company Polygram to withdraw all Mark Knopfler 's projected releases . |
| 30 | That element of realism has been evident in the papers issued by the APB over the last year , in particular those on expanding the auditors ' report and going concern , but nowhere is it more clearly shown than in the recently published The Future Development of Auditing ( see also this issue , pp 10 and 88 ) . |