Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [noun] over the [det] " in BNC.

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1 That working-class wages would remain at subsistence level — the fact is that the real wage of the average worker has increased by a factor of over ten between 1900–70 in the UK and by a factor of fourteen in the U S over the same period ; that collective ownership of the means of production would result in an increase of wealth for the workers and so improve their lot — the fact is that in both Russia and Cuba it has been necessary to restore discipline in factories by introducing a military routine with the surplus value being siphoned off by the state ; that communist revolutions would start in such advanced industrial countries such as Britain , France , America and Germany — the fact is that a socialist revolution has taken place in none of these countries ; that conflicts between states are the results of capitalism and will cease under communism — the fact is that in the streets of Budapest and Prague , in Afghanistan and on the Soviet-Chinese border we have seen the power of the Red Army being used against fellow communists ; that the income difference between capitalists and workers will rise — the fact is that in all industrial countries the effective after-tax , after-benefits real income gap between rich and poor has diminished ; that capitalism will collapse because of its internal contradictions — the fact is that capitalism has not collapsed in any Western country , yet .
2 Professor S.J. Prais estimates that in 1909 the share of the hundred largest enterprises in manufacturing net output in the UK amounted to 16 per cent approximately , but by 1970 it had reached 40–41 per cent ; while in the U S over the same period the figure grew from 22 per cent to 33 per cent .
3 To assess the degree to which this occurred comments in the potential risks condition from each five second section were compared with those from the description condition over the same five seconds .
4 Older people I have indicated already that the exclusion of older people from the labour market over the same period has had a somewhat different impact upon their position in reciprocal support within families .
5 Comparing chloride concentration with rainfall at St Louis and water flow in the Senegal River over the same period has displayed the signature of droughts ( in the 1970s , 1940s and 1910s ) and of intervening periods of higher rainfall and river flow .
6 In contrast , the drop in the United Kingdom over the same period has been from 4.4 to 3.1 per 100,000 of the population — a reduction of 32 per cent .
7 In a country where anything so conspicuous as reducing food subsidies courts trouble , cut backs in the health sector may seem a safer bet ( in 1977 7.7 per cent of GNP was devoted to health care , down from 9.5 per cent in 1955 ; in comparison , proportions in the United States over the same period rose from 8 per cent to 11 per cent ) .
8 The decision follows a court ruling late on Friday in which Judge William Ingram ordered a retrial of the interminable lawsuit brought by Intel against the Sunnyvale chipmaker over the latter 's alleged non-performance under their second source and products development agreement .
9 The decision follows a court ruling late on Friday in which Judge William Ingram ordered a retrial of the interminable lawsuit brought by Intel against the Sunnyvale chipmaker over the latter 's alleged non-performance under their second source and products development agreement .
10 Patients reported about three times as many undesirable events in the six months preceding their illness as the comparison group over the same period .
11 So how do we account for the dramatic increase in the average size of the remand population over the same period ?
12 Figures from the Public Health Laboratory Service ( PHLS ) revealed 7,848 confirmed cases of salmonella during the first six months of this year , a 17% decrease over the same period last year .
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