Example sentences of "[adj] to [adj] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They find that pH declined from about 7.0 to 5.5 over the first few thousand years following deglaciation , owing to natural processes . |
| 2 | For example , between 1980 and 1990 the average advance to income ratio for first-time buyers rose from 1.67 to 2.19 , while the average percentage advance to first-time buyers rose from 73.8 to 82.5 over the same period . |
| 3 | The business of environmental consultancy has evolved rapidly over the past decade , with the number of UK firms involved jumping from 100 to 225 over the past couple of years alone . |
| 4 | The US will probably benefit from a doubling of middle-aged people aged 45 to 54 over the next 20 years because of the baby boom of the late 1950s . |
| 5 | NIPPON Telegraph and Telephone , the Japanese telecommunications group , is reducing its workforce by 20,000 to 230,000 over the next two years as part of an 80 billion yen ( £343m ) cost-cutting programme . |
| 6 | This compares with structure plan estimates of need totalling 231,000 to 233,000 over the five-year period . |
| 7 | Equity ‘ bargain' averages have also increased from 7,280 to 36,148 over the same period . |
| 8 | Fewer students were prepared to undertake the commitment to submit written work on a regular basis , or to study over long periods , and although the number of Article 24(a) Tutorial Classes rose from fourteen in 1947–48 to thirty in 1951–52 as a direct result of the District 's programme for action , the totals for Article 24(b) Sessional classes declined from forty-one to thirty-two over the same period . |
| 9 | There were reports from Carole Fuller on the number of congregants which had increased from 128 to 141 over the past ten months , and on the musical life of the church . |
| 10 | Unemployment had risen from 80,000 to 400,000 over the previous 12 months and was expected to exceed 500,000 by the end of 1992 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One of my more unlikely activities was to preside from 1973 to 1977 over the Housing Corporation , and alongside it ( a body which bore no direct relationship ) the National Building Agency . |
| 13 | Our figures also support this view , the male to female ratio falling from 1.17 to 1.12 over the age of 60 years . |
| 14 | In February the commander of the Border Guard announced that his forces were to be cut from 22,000 to 9,000 over the following five years . |