Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , for example , children wet the bed — usually for a very brief period — for a variety of understandable reasons : emotional upset over the strange and terrifying journey , homesickness , fear of their new foster parents — sometimes because a toilet was inaccessible . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | US management guru Peter Drucker points out that while blue collar productivity has increased some forty-fold over the past 100 years , white collar productivity has remained static . |
| 4 | The same question I asked at city hall , it 's slightly different in that now the council has left two and a half available over the next erm three years given that it is not already taken . |
| 5 | According to the Agriculture Ministry , since BSE was first identified in May 1986 a total of 13,849 cases had been confirmed in Britain as of May 23 , 1990 , and another 1,000 over the next four weeks ; the disease was made notifiable throughout the EC on April 1 , and the Republic of Ireland had 18 notified cases . |
| 6 | The thickness does not decrease linearly , but follows an exponential curve , with the thickness decreasing much more over the first kilometre than the second , and so on . |
| 7 | Bangladesh , suffering a 15% per annum population migration to the cities , coupled with a population which has grown from 75 million to 90 million over the past decade is a further example . |
| 8 | ‘ A woman whose response to Chernobyl is that only thirty-one people were killed , who can dismiss as unimportant one of the world 's greatest nuclear disasters which put thousands in hospital , exposed a hundred thousand or more to dangerous radioactivity , devastated vast areas of land , and may result in deaths from cancer amounting to fifty thousand over the next fifty years , is totally unsuitable to be trusted to work in an atomic power station . |
| 9 | A report by the human rights organization Amnesty International prepared over the previous five years , and released on June 19 , concluded that government inaction had allowed the proliferation of death squads run by prison officers and off-duty policemen . |
| 10 | A maximum inversion of — 2500 m over the offshore part of Cleveland Hills High is recognised . |
| 11 | The infusion of cash to the Antarctic should be worth A$50 to 80 million over the next four to five years and will open up the continent to direct flights from Australia . |
| 12 | Changes in patient flow and hospital organisation have reduced the number of beds in inner London by 5 000 over the past 10 years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Are they worth while for relatively small sums you know you talked about ten thousand over the hundred and fifty . |
| 15 | The most distinctive plover of the region , the commonest inland over the greater part of it , and the only Vanellus breeding over most of Europe . |
| 16 | So it 'll be tan again but his time we 'll have tan fifty is equal to one twenty over the adjacent which is what we 're trying to find . |
| 17 | A total of 4.9 million low-paid — an increase of one million over the original 1992/3 beneficiaries — would pay the 20p rate of tax only in 1993/4 . |
| 18 | For example , the number of visitors to the Department of the Environment 's Ancient Monuments rose from 6.8 million in 1960 to 15.4 million in 1972 ; visitors to National Trust properties also increased in number from 1.02 million to 3.9 million over the same period . |
| 19 | Does the Minister know that while the number of jobs went down and unemployment went up , crime in the county of Leicestershire rose by more than one third over the past 12 months , nearly double the national rate , but the chief constable has said that in the next year the force can spend £1 million less ? |
| 20 | They have obviously been through a very bad time over the last few days and it is n't going to get any better over the next few weeks . ’ |
| 21 | But has proposed that NASA spend an additional $ 550 million over the next four years on civil aviation research , raising the government 's level of support beyond the limit if , as seems likely , sales remain stagnant . |
| 22 | Power over people : the sacerdotal few over the compliant many . |
| 23 | And then there are two further posts , two five's over the next twelve months . |
| 24 | Emissions of lead from road vehicles have fallen by more than two thirds over the past ten years , according to figures published by the UK Department of Transport . |
| 25 | Up by two thirds over the 1980s — faster than any other major industrial country except Japan . |
| 26 | I 'm going to be doing one or two more over the next erm few weeks or so . |
| 27 | And the firm has orders for 20 more over the next two years . |