Example sentences of "year over the [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is anticipated that life expectancy at birth will rise by 2–3 years over the next 40 years . |
| 2 | The bank says it expects its new purchase to break even in the first year and to be operating at a profit of $150m-200m a year over the following three years . |
| 3 | It will be paid in full for a period of three years and will then be reduced by one-third each year over the subsequent three years . |
| 4 | The site studied by Guo and Bradshaw is a village in Jiangsu province , having an area of 155 hectares ( ha ) and a population of 2,353 inhabitants which has increased by about 0.25% a year over the past 40 years . |
| 5 | Professor Alan Leadbetter , Daresbury 's director , said its buying power had declined by 7 per cent per year over the last few years . |
| 6 | Finally the survey revealed that worldwide information technology spend in the wholesale finance market will hit some $20,000m during 1993 , increasing at 9% or so a year over the next five years . |
| 7 | According to estimates prepared in advance of the Assembly [ see also p. 38891 ] , the global average for life expectancy was expected to rise by four months a year over the next five years . |
| 8 | Five B status is going to bring in two to three million a year over the next five years , the total cost of running the scheme is one point three million pounds , in effect we 're a net contributor |
| 9 | An Economist Intelligence Unit ( EIU ) report has predicted that organic farming will expand by 25 per cent a year over the next five years . |
| 10 | While it intends to press ahead with its policy of getting rid of 15,000 staff a year over the next two years , finance director Barry Romeril said redundancy costs would be cut by half . |
| 11 | Reforms designed to reduce federal contributions to the health service by DM11,400 million a year over the next two years were approved by the Cabinet on Aug. 12 and tabled in the Bundestag on Sept. 11 . |
| 12 | The only firm suggestion to emerge from the meeting was a commitment by the Malaysian state of Sarawak to cut logging by 1.5 million cubic metres a year over the next two years . |
| 13 | Chrysler 's aim is to increase European sales to 100,000 a year over the next few years — a plan almost certain to involve right-hand drive vehicles for the UK . |
| 14 | Another £750 million is likely to be spent on self-medication , rising by 5 per cent a year over the next three years . |
| 15 | It recommended reducing the size of train crews , increasing wages by an average of 3-4 per cent per year over the next three years , and the payment by workers of a proportion of their health care costs . |
| 16 | Milk production was to be reduced by 1 per cent a year over the next three years . |
| 17 | Boeing predicts that revenue passenger miles ( RPMs — the number of passengers carried on each flight multiplied by the distance of the flight ) will continue to grow by 5.4% a year over the next 15 years . |
| 18 | The financial plan showed the investment impact on sales , profit and return on investment per year over the next ten years , while the financing plan described how the investment was to be financed : namely , from borrowings in the early years until the plan became self-financing from funds accrued from current operations , in year four . |
| 19 | UNEP and others have estimated that it would cost approximately $4,500 million a year over the next 20 years to slow and stop desertification , and to begin to reclaim the land that we have already lost . |
| 20 | So on current plans the reprocessing plants will separate an average of 21 tonnes of plutonium a year over the next 20 years . |