Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] over [art] previous " in BNC.

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1 Having cost the University of Bristol a lot of money over the previous months , I thought I ought to try to put something back , so I got myself sponsored : part of the money was to go to the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council , and half to the newly-formed Bristol University Arthritis Research Group .
2 Although tax consultancy fee income rose by 3% to £105m , this compares with a total increase of 134% over the previous three years .
3 The 25th FAO conference in Rome in November 1989 adopted a regular budget of US$569,000,000 for 1990/91 , an increase of $77,000,000 over the previous biennium [ see p. 36957 ] .
4 The budget totalled $T40,000,000 , a rise of $T2,700,000 over the previous year .
5 Though they admitted a whole series of assaults over the previous three years , they disputed their frequency , he said in his closing speech .
6 The Wallace Collection attracted a record 198,225 visitors in 1992 , an increase of 41% over the previous year
7 According to new figures from the Central Statistical Office , consumers increased their debts by £13m in February having paid off £505m worth of debt over the previous six months .
8 The rest of the report , which was the role of section conferences and industrial conferences , which have been the subject of fairly detailed consultations throughout regions over the previous two years and appeared to be widely accepted was hardly debated at all .
9 Of total foreign investment in Czechoslovakia over the previous 2 years only 11 per cent had gone to Slovakia , and the common perception was that the industries of the Czech Lands were in general better placed to benefit from the programme of rapid privatization emphasised by Klaus .
10 Iraqi government sources claimed on July 16 that 1,200 Arab citizens had been deported from Kuwait over the previous 24 hours [ see pp. 38118 ; 38166 ; 38309 ] .
11 Does not that answer confirm that the increase in crime in the past 12 years has been greater both in proportion and in number than the increase in crime over the previous 12 centuries ?
12 Using data supplied by local police forces and government ministries , the report stated that ( i ) 4,611 children and adolescents had died from violence over the previous three years , more than 50 per cent of them shot and the rest killed by stabbing , beating , poisoning or strangling ; ( ii ) young girls were raped and many had died from clandestine abortions after becoming prostitutes ; ( iii ) children were exploited from the age of three by professional beggars , from the age of six by drug traffickers and , if they survived , ended up in armed groups used by criminal gangs and even the police ; ( iv ) the abuse of drugs and solvents was common among street children ; ( v ) an estimated 3,000 children were illegally adopted annually by foreigners , 50 per cent going to Italy and 30 per cent to France , who paid up to US$20,000 for a white child ; and ( vi ) 25,000,000 out of 45,000,000 children were chronically underfed , 30 per cent lived in poverty and 10,000 were child workers .
13 Black ( 1982 ) related changes in net fixed investment to changes in GDP over the previous three years .
14 In tourism , 1990 figures showed a 30 per cent increase in earnings over the previous year ( in spite of the Gulf crisis occurring halfway through the season ) , bringing the annual total to some US$3,300 million .
15 America 's faltering recovery continued with a 6.7% rise in housing starts in April over the previous month , lower than had been expected after a first quarter in which housing starts had been curbed by bad weather .
16 In addition , of course , there is a brief commentary by the Departmental Head or the General Manager of the Public Service Unit , saying something about the movement in staffing over the previous year , and a brief word or two about what is going to happen in the current and future years .
17 SunSoft has enhanced Solaris 2.0 to 2.2 ( though it 's not officially calling it that ) boosting symmetric multiprocessing performance by 60% over the previous version as measured on an eight-way system .
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