Example sentences of "[noun] over [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 61 | Head teacher of Bentley School , Philip Callaway , told the Herald that during the week , the children 's topic work would also be looking at changes in everyday life over the 150 years . |
| 62 | The Defence Department also proposed a possible reduction to a level of 150,000 of US troops stationed in Europe over the five years to 1995 , provided that the Warsaw Pact reciprocated and on the assumption that the Soviet Union could no longer depend upon its Warsaw Pact allies to support any military action it may take . |
| 63 | Rowing was transformed in the breadth and depth of participation over the 30 years of his term . |
| 64 | The proportions among the older mothers rose more steeply than those among the younger mothers over the three years . |
| 65 | The pattern of changes in status over the three years since redundancy was broadly similar for those aged 55–59 , 40–54 , and under 40 at the time of redundancy . |
| 66 | By examining the response to these and similar issues over the coming years , this series will provide a unique means of monitoring the changes in society as the twentieth century draws to a close . |
| 67 | One hundred and twenty three adults were treated for benign oesophageal strictures over the six years , 1986–92 . |
| 68 | The overall cost of the project over the ten years it will run is estimated to be in the region of £1.9 million , and an appeal for sponsorship by commercial sources and private individuals is to be launched early in 1993 . |
| 69 | ( The main difference between the two studies is that the American forecasters assume a fairly high level of growth in total employment while the British researchers are more pessimistic , predicting that employment over the 10 years will fall by 3 per cent . ) |
| 70 | We 've seen a very controlled and steady growth over the thirteen years that we 've been in business and I think as you can see there year on year we have consistently increased turnover and increased profitability . |
| 71 | We studied 123 adult patients ( 76 men and 47 women ; mean age 38.7 ( 18.7 ) years ) , age range 18–84 years ) with benign oesophageal strictures treated by dilatation over the six years 1986–92 . |
| 72 | Thus developed in Lebanon a pattern of events which was to recreate itself in increasingly savage form over the coming years . |
| 73 | Increases in value included 403% for the European Fund and 268% for the Global Leisure Fund over the five years . |
| 74 | It also stands accused of murdering the much-loved area around the old Bull Ring market that had grown up in piecemeal fashion over the 800 years since Birmingham was granted a market charter in 1150 . |
| 75 | SIR , — Of a total of 3715,762 infants delivered in Japan after 23 weeks of gestation over the three years 1989 to 1991 , 22,531 were stillborn . |
| 76 | We had changed a lot over the four years we 'd been together . |
| 77 | Despite Adam 's devious attempts to play down the collaboration behind this superb work ( several resplendently bound copies are on display ) , credit is now given to James 's role as project manager , co-ordinating teams of engravers in Venice , Rome and London over the seven years before publication in 1764 . |
| 78 | Now in the same way over the four years when you are in overall control of the Council you suggested that Conservative money , the of council tax to pay for public transport but you never spent all the money on public transport , instead of which you on as you admitted which will be used in other directions but your last budget |
| 79 | A Georg who was constantly finding fault and who , in some curious way over the three years of her absence , had become mean . |
| 80 | For example , Britain received $3.2billion of the $12.8billion Marshall money — worth just over 7 per cent of all our imports of goods and services over the five years . |
| 81 | The advantages of immediate estimates of the consequences of any proposed set of grade boundaries , in terms of changes in grade numbers both overall and by function and location , and in terms of the likely cost over the forthcoming years , are obvious and considerable . |
| 82 | Having said that , if there is n't any pay formula included in this deal , er no matter what the percentage increase over the two years , I think er the strength of feeling across the country , people will not be happy with this and if it is balloted on it will be rejected . |
| 83 | As part of its expansion , Barratt will open two new subsidiaries a year over the three years of the growth plan , starting in July with one for south London , to be followed by one for the northern part of the capital later . |
| 84 | This was a critical factory over the ensuing years , when a run on capital was always on the cards , especially in the slump period of the 20 's and 30's . |
| 85 | The leading EEC country in expenditure over the five years 1974–1978 was France followed by Germany and Italy with UK a poor fourth . |
| 86 | Supporters of official forecasts say the 1982–86 recovery saw an average annual growth rate of 3 per cent — not far removed from the 3.1 per cent average implied by the Treasury over the five years to 1996–97 . |
| 87 | So expect some big changes to the type of tackle you will see at different events over the coming years . |
| 88 | The financial decision is taken , in the light of current market conditions , to issue stock redeemable in equal annual instalments of principal and interest over the ten years following completion of the bridge . |
| 89 | Commentary : The common size statements merely confirm what we have already suggested above from our initial analysis , i.e. the gross profit has declined with a marked decline in 1988 and this has been accompanied by an increase in interest over the last years . |
| 90 | As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year . |