Example sentences of "[adj] over [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The State of World Population 1992 report , released on April 29 by the United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA ) , projected an annual increase in the world 's population of about 97,000,000 over the next ten years . |
| 2 | The fashion of railway excursions became very popular over the next 100 years , spreading throughout Britain and far beyond , and it is seldom realised that this leisure pursuit began in Ayrshire , with Troon and Barassie as the first seaside resorts for railway passengers . |
| 3 | Given the British Government 's determination to provide official aid to democratic countries — we are seeing the emergence of a growing number of them — does my hon. Friend agree that it would be proper and popular over the next five years to halve the gap between our official aid and the United Nations target ? |
| 4 | Only confectioners , tobacconists and newsagents remain optimistic : every other retailing sector identified in the CBI survey expects business to get tougher over the next three months . |
| 5 | Only confectioners , tobacconists and newsagents remain optimistic : every other retailing sector identified in the CBI survey expects business to get tougher over the next three months . |
| 6 | It would not surprise us to see something like this over the next few months . ’ |
| 7 | The third reason why we 're , we 're pleased to see you here is that erm as a trades council , we 've and this er and Dick mentioned this in his introduction , we 've initiated a major international programme , major in terms of our size obviously as er as a local body , involving links between union activists here primarily in France er , in northern France , but also links now developing in Spain with the new ferry going between Portsmouth and Bilbao , we 're starting to meet with the unions in Spain who are interested in speaking about the , the , the differences in wages in terms and conditions working for the same ferry company , doing the same jobs in the port , a comparative look at how the , the wages terms and conditions differ and we want to , we want to go and visit them in the autumn and , and work out , and work on more links on a sector basis , so that our colleagues down in Bilbao in northern Spain can link up with people in the , in the , in similar sectors here and we 've done this over the last three and a half years with the unions in France , we 've had exchanges of all sectors , the public sectors , transport , erm , health , social services , shop workers . |
| 8 | Surveys along the north-east coast have shown that its numbers have fallen by half over the last decade , to today 's figure of around 100 . |
| 9 | According to a study by Italy 's joint chiefs of staff , a manpower shortage may lead to the army being cut by up to half over the next 20 years . |
| 10 | THE NUMBER of army bands is to be cut by half over the next two years — but all Scottish regimental pipes and drums have escaped the axe . |
| 11 | The government meets three quarters of the costs of section eleven projects , but that 's being cut to half over the next two years . |
| 12 | On Feb. 26 , 1991 , the Anglo-Dutch food and cleaning products company , Unilever , announced that it would be cutting 5,500 jobs from a total workforce of 110,000 over the next three years . |
| 13 | It had become increasingly clear over the last few days that the anger of East Germans is focused on the Communist Party and that it can only be a question of time before the party has to relinquish its leading role and allow political competition . |
| 14 | This has been particularly clear over the last couple of years . |
| 15 | Ernst and Young has cut its annual graduate recruitment by 110 to 540 over the last two years but generally the big firms , some with workforces of over 7,000 , have been slow to react to the downturn . |
| 16 | Other places , particularly the tropical Far East have been very unstable over the last 15 million years . |
| 17 | It is intended to identify specific issues for attention within a comprehensive national agenda of issues of science and technology policy thought likely to be prominent over the next 10-15 years . |
| 18 | Thomas Cook 's UK travel agency network had its best year ever last year and plans are under way to increase the current branch network of 340 by at least another 100 over the next two years . |
| 19 | And then there are two further posts , two five's over the next twelve months . |
| 20 | It was noted that Mrs Joan Blair would be on the Staff part-time over the next year . |
| 21 | Tandy Corp broke ground in Dallas on Tuesday for its third Incredible Universe computer megastores , and says it plans to open 14 more US-wide over the next three years : the first two are in Wilsonville , Oregon and Arlington , Texas ; the one in Dallas will be the biggest yet . |
| 22 | A loss that will become increasingly serious over the next decade . |
| 23 | Despite having an army of 285,000 ( to be cut to 250,000 over the next three years ) , France would have been hard-pressed to do more . |
| 24 | ‘ Our sales figures have been fairly consistent over the last few months . |
| 25 | A total of £1.1 million was payable on completion in cash , with the balance payable over the next three years . |
| 26 | Yet he was often in danger of winning the $55,000 ( £31,250 ) first prize until he found it just too much over the last few miles . |
| 27 | To show how safe services are in the hands of this government , you only have to study John Major 's speech to the Society of County Treasurers at his Annual Dinner in London last December and I quote , together we have achieved much over the last decade to improve the services we provide for the people we serve and the environment in which they live , unquote . |
| 28 | On a more serious note , has chemistry changed as a subject very much over the last , dare I say , twenty five years ? |
| 29 | As you say , I wo n't be around much over the next few weeks anyway . ’ |
| 30 | Omron sold 6,000 Lunas in 1992 and expects to sell 3,000 Luna 2001s over the next twelve months . |