Example sentences of "numbers over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE University of Southampton announced plans yesterday to more than double its student numbers over the next 35 years by building an additional campus . |
| 2 | Government ministers now boasted of having increased spending on higher education and struck an expansionist note in calling for doubling student numbers over the next twenty-five years . |
| 3 | The smaller , darker mountain type with black points and mucosae is very like the Piedmont of northwest Italy and is ideal for extensive systems , but it has been declining in numbers over the last 50 years and by 1980 was down to about 35,000 . |
| 4 | The building society industry faces major changes — including a reduction in numbers over the next 10 years |
| 5 | The martins were now coming and going in numbers over the water . |
| 6 | But Tito 's forces also began penetrating in considerable numbers over the pre-war Yugoslav frontier into southern Austria and north-east Italy ( Venezia Giulia , including the port of Trieste ) . |
| 7 | It is worth adding at this point , in the context of discussion of the cost burden of the elderly , that according to further calculations by David Thomson ( 1987 ) based on Family Expenditure Survey data , the share of national resources going to the elderly has not risen proportionately with their numbers over the past two decades . |
| 8 | ‘ In Great Britain , the growth of numbers over the whole century ’ , wrote the Royal Commission on Population , ‘ was of the order of 50 per cent . |
| 9 | All journals except Cell and Nature showed a trend towards increasing authorship numbers over the study period . |
| 10 | All journals other than Nature and Cell showed increases in median and modal author numbers over the study period . |
| 11 | In 1981 Welwyn possessed the largest proportion of older working people out of all the LLMAs in Britain , while Stevenage , Thetford and Bracknell headed the list of LLMAs with the greatest percentage increases in elderly numbers over the previous decade ( Champion et al . , |
| 12 | This is only partly explained by a fall in pupil numbers over the same period — of 17% . |
| 13 | This shows a percentage decline since 1951 ( when the corresponding figure for boys was 29% , or 38% including direct grant schools ) ; during this period , there was a substantial increase in absolute numbers over the minimum leaving age in independent schools , but this was overshadowed by a much larger increase , proportionately as well as absolutely , in maintained schools . |
| 14 | With our Association growing in numbers over the years , to what seems to be a plateau of about 1200 members , the collective voice has been heard , especially since some of those members are Community , District and Borough Councils ; as well as various clubs and businesses . |
| 15 | In keeping with that statement growth in undergraduate numbers over the past few years has been less than 1 per cent a year . |
| 16 | Friends of the Earth Cleveland has seen a dramatic decline in numbers over the last decade but spokesman Mark Davidson said : ‘ We have several campaigns ongoing and we are active in the Cleveland Environmental Forum . ’ |
| 17 | Many children have been injured in increasing numbers over the last year , and it was the idea of one school teacher in Oxford to bring a group of gendarmes over to England to teach children how the French behave on the roads . |