Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] over [art] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concession will save contributor areas a total of £685m over the three years . |
| 2 | Rowing was transformed in the breadth and depth of participation over the 30 years of his term . |
| 3 | SIR , — Of a total of 3715,762 infants delivered in Japan after 23 weeks of gestation over the three years 1989 to 1991 , 22,531 were stillborn . |
| 4 | The authority spent twenty thousand pounds on the eviction , half what the squatters say they 'd have paid in rent over the two years |
| 5 | At a World Bank-sponsored meeting in Paris on Oct. 27 leading developed countries and multilateral agencies approved a further $2,200 million in aid over the three years 1990-92 . |
| 6 | The stock change in units over the three years : |
| 7 | Written parliamentary replies on Jan. 18 , Feb. 15 and June 28 , 1990 , stated that ( i ) net proceeds from privatization over the seven years from April 1983 amounted to some £26,000 million ; ( ii ) net proceeds from privatization in 1989-90 were most recently estimated at £4,250 million , and ( iii ) approximately 11,000,000 people owned shares . |
| 8 | Pension funds increased thirtyfold in size over the twenty-five years to 1985 ; insurance companies grew fourteenfold over the same period . |
| 9 | The Defence Department also proposed a possible reduction to a level of 150,000 of US troops stationed in Europe over the five years to 1995 , provided that the Warsaw Pact reciprocated and on the assumption that the Soviet Union could no longer depend upon its Warsaw Pact allies to support any military action it may take . |
| 10 | The pattern of changes in status over the three years since redundancy was broadly similar for those aged 55–59 , 40–54 , and under 40 at the time of redundancy . |
| 11 | The leading EEC country in expenditure over the five years 1974–1978 was France followed by Germany and Italy with UK a poor fourth . |
| 12 | It expects the 78% share of desktops currently running by MS-DOS to fall to 29% by 1997 , the Apple Macintosh to retain a 10% share over the period , Windows to rise from last year 's 7% to 28% , Unix to grow from 4% to 10% , OS/2 to rise from 1% to 8% and Windows NT to grow from nowhere to 14% over the five years . |
| 13 | The Authority allocated £13.75 million pounds to PNP over the four years 1985–9 . |
| 14 | In contrast , the Districts of Warwickshire experienced very little actual change in their assessed expenditure needs per head over the three years , with relatively small increases and decreases , although their ranking alters dramatically . |
| 15 | When you visit the factory , you will see the different stages of manufacturing , from the mixing of ingredients to the extrusion of the mixture and the lettering in the rock , the preparation of the famous John Bull Fudge and Toffees — made with real cream and butter the old fashioned way to recipes over a 100 years old . |
| 16 | The Scottish experience shows the enormous increase in the amounts owed by clients over the three years of the study . |
| 17 | We studied 123 adult patients ( 76 men and 47 women ; mean age 38.7 ( 18.7 ) years ) , age range 18–84 years ) with benign oesophageal strictures treated by dilatation over the six years 1986–92 . |