Example sentences of "[noun sg] over the [num ord] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farman has claimed that the assertion of the chemical industry that its activities would only contribute 1 per cent to the green-house effect over the next 120 years are " seriously underestimated " . |
| 2 | Make arrangements satisfactory to patients and staff locally for the closure over the next ten years or so of those mental illness hospitals which are not well placed to provide a service reaching out into the community and are already near the end of their useful life . |
| 3 | By the summer of 1967 , when he left the Department of Education and Science for the Board of Trade , £16m. had been made available for a building programme over the next two years , with a further £18m. to follow in 1971/2 . |
| 4 | Mr Major wants to ensure that his drive to improve public services is translated into a practical programme over the next five years . |
| 5 | In September 1989 a draft law was presented which aimed to facilitate a large-scale privatization programme over the next five years . |
| 6 | Ecotech-approved alternatives to other products in the PC range will be introduced in a rolling programme over the next five years . |
| 7 | A representative of the mainly-Muslim Bosnian army , which seized the village in fierce fighting over the last five days , said they would not be harmed if they stayed . |
| 8 | Menem also indicated that Argentina , in return for EC aid and improved trading arrangements , would be prepared to accept up to 300,000 immigrants from the former Eastern bloc over the next three years ; he discussed with EC commissioners the possible arrival of 40,000 immigrants in the short term . |
| 9 | Economic thinking over the last 40 years , the report observed , had shifted dramatically away from the promotion of state-directed industrialization towards a more " market-friendly " approach to development , but " markets sometimes prove inadequate or fail altogether " and " governments must , for example , invest in infrastructure and provide essential services to the poor " . |
| 10 | His own thinking over the next three years was developed , accordingly , through successive disagreements with Lyell 's views on the organic world , while he continued to accept his mentor 's teaching on the physical world of land , sea and climate changes . |
| 11 | COPING AWARD : a local laundry has offered Mrs J vouchers to cover fifty per cent of the cost of washing bed-linen over the next six months . ’ |
| 12 | Parcelforce has made a loss over the last two years , despite strong efforts to turn the business around . |
| 13 | This year 's profits will be used to help fund a record £1.5billion programme of investment over the next five years to cope with what is described as ‘ a phenomenal ’ growth in mail . |
| 14 | Last year , the government announced it would receive a $20 thousand million investment over the next five years , including private sector funds . |
| 15 | GERMANY 'S railway system will need £140 billion of investment over the next eight years and should be privatised to avoid a budgetary ‘ disaster ’ for taxpayers , the head of the rail network Heinz Durr told the government . |
| 16 | Still panting , she struggled to maintain a vestige of self-respect as the press demanded a full briefing of her domestic itinerary over the last 24 hours . |
| 17 | I have immensely valued your advice , help , support , commitment , encouragement and above all your friendship over the last six years . |
| 18 | A SOLDIER was killed by an IRA sniper last night — victim No. 3,001 in Ulster 's grim death toll over the last 23 years . |
| 19 | After all , she had had lots of practice over the last four years ! |
| 20 | Much of geography over the last 40 years has been concerned with analysing these subsystems by breaking down each subsystem into ever smaller component parts and studying these parts , and their interrelationships , at an increasing level of detail . |
| 21 | At the first stage of the project , a selective economic history of the industry over the last 120 years was compiled ( B/00/23/2070 ) . |
| 22 | Pictures of stars who have made most contribution to the music industry over the last 25 years featured at a glittering party in New York 's Four Seasons Restaurant . |
| 23 | A report by Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) has attacked government plans for the expansion of the gas industry over the next five years . |
| 24 | Per Andersen of IDC 's European Unix Centre says this trend will shape the industry over the next two years . |
| 25 | Per Andersen of IDC 's European Unix Expertise Centre believes this to be a significant trend that will shape the industry over the next two years . |
| 26 | All right , let us talk about yesterday if the hon. Gentleman wants — let us talk about giving more than £1 billion to industry over the next two years to ensure that there is no increase in business rates . |
| 27 | Also on Dec. 20 the general view was expressed within the TNC that the scene was now set for the major effort necessary to secure a substantial result over the next 11 months , although both within the TNC and ( on Dec. 19-20 ) within the Group of Negotiations on Goods ( GNG ) various participants voiced concern at a lack of balance in the progress achieved in certain negotiating groups , at developments in the market access groups ( especially relating to tariff reductions ) and at the devotion of insufficient attention to development issues in many parts of the negotiations . |
| 28 | The ending of mining rights would lead to a loss of some 20,000 jobs and $ 2 billion in revenue over the next seven years . |
| 29 | The patients with active ulcerative colitis ( n=6 ) had a significantly increased uptake of PEGs in the molecular weight range 458–810 , measured as urinary excretion over the first 6 hours after instillation . |
| 30 | The painstaking work on the wreck undertaken by the amateur Chelmsford Sub-Acqua Club over the last twelve years will be the subject of an exhibition at the Maritime Museum this year . |