Example sentences of "[conj] over the [num ord] [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The RYA says that over the next 10 years demand for new berths will reach 85,000 nationally on top of the present 190,000 . |
| 2 | In a departure from the stance of previous governments , the government announced in February 1990 that over the next five years it proposed to pay Sch300,000,000 in reparations to Austrian Jews who had fled the country after the Anschluss ( the forcible union of Austria with Nazi Germany in 1938 ) and who had not previously received compensation . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , he forsees that over the next two years there may be problems as fleets dispose of the diesels acquired during the last oil-burner boom . |
| 4 | I can give the hon. Gentleman and the House some comfort by saying that over the next two years things will change dramatically . |
| 5 | Like other fair-minded people , we wanted to see more help given to these parents and their children ; and it was plain that over the next ten years or so Parliament would be doing that , and our scheme would be one of the instruments used for that purpose . |
| 6 | I do not doubt that over the next 20 years the Community 's evolution will be as marked as it has been in the nearly 20 years since we joined . |
| 7 | It is evident that over the last hundred years or so mid realizations have been spreading at the expense of low realizations . |
| 8 | The Newcastle 's cap and collar mortgage , where the interest can not rise about 10.75 per cent or fall below 9.5 per cent for a full seven years is a good bet , especially when you consider that over the last 10 years , the average interest rate has been around 12 per cent . |
| 9 | British Gas said that over the last 10 years it has lost about 2,000 workers a year with the switch to natural gas . |
| 10 | Alan Milburn , said official department of employment figures showed that over the last two years youth unemployment has increased over 40pc faster than the general rise . |
| 11 | Has the Prime Minister had time today to study the Department of Trade and Industry 's figures that were released on Tuesday , which showed that over the last five years Chinese quotas for the importation of cashmere garments into the European Community have been exceeded by 500,000 units and that in 1991 the actual importation exceeded the quotas by over 400 per cent ? |
| 12 | I guess that over the last six years television has given him only a quarter of her exposure . |
| 13 | Although the primary importance of state benefits in financing old age may decline in the future as both the opportunities and the incentives increase for today 's working population to accumulate private assets for retirement , there can be little doubt that over the last eighty years state pensions have been instrumental in sustaining a considerable degree of economic independence among the retired population . |
| 14 | It should come as no surprise then , if we tell you that over the last three years Florida has become one of our great Club 18–30 success stories , with thousands of club fans making the trip across the ‘ big pond ’ for their first stateside holiday . |
| 15 | ‘ I am really pleased that over the last three years I have been able to show that part-time working can work without any difficulty . |
| 16 | Mr Milburn said latest figures showed that over the last three years the number of patients removed from waiting lists without having received treatment had increased 145pc . |
| 17 | The six months since Britain left the ERM have seen a more complete U turn in British economic policy than at any time in recent memory ; and over the last two years the deterioration in the nation 's finances has also been spectacular . |
| 18 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
| 19 | Walking is a natural exercise for most people , and over the last six years the Health Education Department of Lothian Health Board with the help of SHEG , and the Recreation & Leisure Departments of East Lothian , Edinburgh , Midlothian and West Lothian , have promoted this to encourage family and friends to Walkaboutabit . |
| 20 | It is because trying to give credit to this great poet commits a patriotic Englishman ( or Scotsman for that matter — Fraser is a Scot ) to very tormenting and unwelcome questions and reflections about the spiritual state of England or Scotland today , and over the last fifty years . |
| 21 | That was in 1980 , and over the last eleven years Tony Bowran 's studio has produced a continuous output of consistently high quality creative photography for many a major advertising campaign . |
| 22 | Arthur Andersen is downsizing and over the next two years will be replacing its Wang minicomputers with a PC-based system running Notes . |
| 23 | Arthur Andersen is downsizing , and over the next two years will be replacing its Wang Minicomputers with a PC-based system running Notes . |
| 24 | The equipment they had at Rhodes hardly justified the risks in getting ashore to use it , but the Commander had improved the original ideas and over the next two years a comprehensive yet simple range of tools would be devised for this survey work . |
| 25 | A breed society was formed in 1919 to rescue the remaining 130 cattle and over the next 70 years there was considerable out-crossing to Friesian , Jersey , Shorthorn , White Park and no doubt other breeds as well . |
| 26 | She embarked on the column in 1981 and over the next 11 years became , if hardly the guardian of people 's secrets , nonetheless a gushing fount of comforting advice . |
| 27 | No new ones were created after Pennsylvania , and over the next fifty years the government bought out most of the proprietors ' rights . |
| 28 | Helena Swanwick became a close friend of C. P. Scott [ q.v. ] and his wife Rachel , and over the next eighteen years wrote and reviewed regularly for the Manchester Guardian on domestic and feminist subjects and gardening . |
| 29 | Armed with the classic mandarin 's pedigree , he joined the Treasury in 1961 and over the next 27 years he bounced between his first department and Downing Street , with the pattern being broken only by a spell with the Bank of England and City institutions in 1969 . |
| 30 | Kuypers was the first to use this technique in studies of the brain and over the next 10 years , now in the United States , he charted at a new level of detail the connections made by the cerebral cortex with nervous elements in the brain-stem and spinal cord that control movement in a number of higher mammals . |