Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] over the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will head a start-up team of seven staff which is expected to grow to a dozen or more over the next six to nine months . |
| 2 | He will head a start-up team of seven staff which is expected to grow to a dozen or more over the next six to nine months . |
| 3 | But when thrifts went bust in their hundreds in 1989 , necessitating a federal rescue that could cost the taxpayer $500 billion or more over the next 30 years , the goalposts were abruptly moved for junk borrowers , too . |
| 4 | The relationship between the judiciary and the Government has been changed by developments over the last twenty years and especially over the last five years or so . |
| 5 | However , given the developments both in the United Kingdom and elsewhere over the last few years , it is now unlikely that this course will be taken . |
| 6 | More and more over the last few years , however , findings both from his own lab and others have tended to enrich the somewhat simplistic reductionist framework within which the Aplysia findings had earlier been set . |
| 7 | Thirdly , our policy analysis and research team , takes responsibility for looking further ahead , and doing a lot of the initial thinking about both the challenges and the opportunities that will affect the sector domestically and internationally over the next few years . |
| 8 | I switched increasingly to erm political history , then I moved from economic and political history to social history , to some extent linking the two , and increasingly over the last ten years , partly through the work that I 've done on the history of broadcasting , and on twentieth century history , I think I would say that I would now be a cultural historian . |
| 9 | I Novice BHS Event my 16hh mare and sometimes over the last two seasons , these Events have taken place over very hard ground . |
| 10 | However , per capita food production in Africa has been declining slowly and steadily over the last few decades . |
| 11 | But somehow over the last twenty-four hours she 'd allowed herself to hope that it was n't true . |
| 12 | This was low in 1801 and 1802 but high over the next five years ; it was on the low side in 1812 and 1813 , recovered in 1814 , but was falling again as the wars ended . |
| 13 | The number of day hospitals run by health services and day centres provided by local authorities and voluntary organizations has grown slowly but steadily over the last forty years , although there remains a great deal of confusion about the purposes of day care , and professionals from different services have differing expectations and aims . |