Example sentences of "a [noun] over [art] next [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Queen 's University brother and sister Stuart and Sandra Boomer will be giving midweek lectures a miss over the next three days . |
| 2 | Scientists have been measuring the tide at Burnham-on-Sea , jotting down hours of sunlight , measuring the temperature to 14 decimal places and they have come to the conclusion that water levels could rise by a foot over the next 40 years . |
| 3 | THE Government 's decision to levy value-added tax on domestic fuel and power has prompted ScottishPower to carry out a review over the next 12 months to determine the possible impact the tax will have on its 1.6 million domestic customers . |
| 4 | Lewis can become a multi-millionaire over the next four years if he becomes our first world heavyweight champion for nearly a century — and defends successfully . |
| 5 | But I need n't have worried , she came to me just as smoothly as before , and I flew her half a dozen times a session over the next four days . |
| 6 | The Australian & Oversees Telecommunications Corp has come up with a novel scheme to motivate its staff : alongside an immediate pay award of 3% and the prospect of a 5% over the next 18 months the company has promised $340 for each of 70,000 of its workers , the payment of which depends on customers ' rating of the service which they receive ; surveys will determine what proportion of customers are satisfied with billing , connections and fault-finding . |
| 7 | Markham , Ontario-based Geac Computer Corp — which has been promising an acquisition a month over the next 12 months , got two under its belt for the same month in May : it has bought the UK end of struggling MAI Systems Corp , MAI ( UK ) Ltd , and has also picked up Tekserv Computer Services Ltd . |
| 8 | The chief executives all confidently predicted that Leyland Daf trucks would make a profit over the next three years despite the loss of eighty-two million pounds at the time the company went into receivership . |
| 9 | The electorate , for its part , no longer votes on the basis of the calibre of the candidates , but rather votes for a programme of policies and for the party which they wish to see form a government over the next 5 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | An Economist Intelligence Unit ( EIU ) report has predicted that organic farming will expand by 25 per cent a year over the next five years . |
| 17 | Another £750 million is likely to be spent on self-medication , rising by 5 per cent a year over the next three years . |
| 18 | Milk production was to be reduced by 1 per cent a year over the next three years . |
| 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I d th the natural inclination is to say use it t to live off because you do n't have a problem over the next twenty six weeks . |