Example sentences of "[vb pp] over the [adj] three years " in BNC.
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| 1 | While bank deposits have stagnated over the past three years , mutual funds , which are mostly outside the banks ' domain , have grown by two-thirds . |
| 2 | The projected increase this year is a further 25% over 1991/92 prices , and since the Library 's budget this year is the same as last year , drastic cuts in subscriptions were essential to avoid further damaging our bookfund , which has already been substantially eroded over the last three years . |
| 3 | The firm 's market share in Italy 's public sector has been eroded over the past three years and he says Olivetti , unlike its principal European competitors ( Siemens-Nixdorf of Germany and Bull of France ) , has enjoyed no particular privileges in its home market . |
| 4 | ( ii ) In addition , the details of training courses applicants have attended over the previous three years will be used as background information and will be relevant to demonstrate interest in medical negligence litigation , commitment and willingness to learn . |
| 5 | It so happens that this rate is exactly the output of the building industry , averaged over the previous three years . |
| 6 | What we shall do , as we have done over the past three years , is to ensure that poorer pensioners — those who have not benefited from the result of our general policies towards pensioners which have increased pensioners ' real living standards by over 34 per cent . |
| 7 | No effort has been made to investigate the tens of thousands of murders and ‘ disappearances ’ that have occurred over the past three years : in February , Sri Lankan human rights activists estimated that 40,000 people had ‘ disappeared ’ since 1987 . |
| 8 | The investment is huge with nearly £1billion to be spent over the next three years . |
| 9 | My plans also allow for an additional £30 million to be spent over the next three years on improving our school buildings , an increase of 17 per cent . |
| 10 | John Stewart ( Points of View , today ) laments over the quality of programmes being made for the £30 million being spent over the next three years on Gaelic television . |
| 11 | Still only 28 years old , Goram is imbued with the belief that his best days in the goalkeeping position that respects age have yet to come , and will be experienced over the next three years . |
| 12 | On May 28-29 in the Chilean capital , Santiago , the Foreign Ministers of eight Rio Group countries ( Panama and Peru being suspended ) and their counterparts from four European Community ( EC ) member countries ( Spain , Portugal , the United Kingdom and Ireland ) signed four agreements on joint investment in Latin America , to be financed over the next three years by a line of credit from the European Investment Bank ( EIB ) worth US$900,000,000 . |
| 13 | ICL 's second trophy went to its Bracknell , Berkshire-based Mid Range Systems division for the volume of DRS 6000 series systems and associated Unix products and services shipped abroad — its revenues are reckoned to have trebled over the past three years to over £250m ; Cambridge-based IXI Ltd was recognised for its success in the open systems software arena with its X.desktop product for Unix , and Chalfont , Buckinghamshire-based Madge Networks Ltd , which ships its high performance Token Ring networking products across the world , and finds it necessary to kid the locals that it 's an American company when it is doing business in the US , also wins an Export award . |
| 14 | It is obviously a very exciting project for us though , and it will allow Kylie to show just how much she has developed over the past three years . |
| 15 | Will the Minister confirm that in the summer he met a group from Derbyshire county council who asked for £140 million , spread over the next three years , to get rid of all outstanding repairs and make necessary improvements ? |
| 16 | But it will be the big increases in tax , spread over the next three years , by which this Budget will be remembered . |
| 17 | Much of this may not find its way into local authority budgets , as a dramatic increase in students in further education of 222,000 ( 25% ) is signalled over the next three years . |
| 18 | A GRE spokesman said the changes were not in reaction to the losses incurred over the past three years , as the life business had remained profitable . |
| 19 | Investment in upgrading the production process is driving a reorganisation of United Distillers ' operations in Scotland , with more than 100 million capital investment planned over the next three years . |
| 20 | The UK 's Forestry Commission estimates that a total of 99,000 hectares will be planted over the next three years . |