Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The October 1990 rate cut was anticipated for some time in advance by the gilt market which bought gilts and drove up gilt prices ( see Fig. 17.3 ) , as was the continued fall in base rates over the next two years . |
| 32 | This is only partly explained by a fall in pupil numbers over the same period — of 17% . |
| 33 | The steep fall in interest rates over the past two years has boosted their operating profits enormously . |
| 34 | This , together with the fall in house prices over the last three years , means that mortgage affordability should fall to a 20 year-low . |
| 35 | With the party buoyant in the opinion polls , and taking full benefit from government discomfiture over the poll tax , Labour increased its share of the vote to almost 55% . |
| 36 | IBM Personal Systems Business Unit Europe/Middle East/Africa says it had record volume of sales in the first quarter of this year , and points to Dataquest figures suggesting that it outshipped its nearest competitor by 66% during the last quarter of 1992 and the first quarter of 1993 — gaining 4% in market share over the previous six months ; the company also said it reorganised its manufacturing and distribution operations at its Greenock , Scotland , plant , cutting distribution costs for its ValuePoint and ThinkPad brands by more than 65% , cutting its inventory by 17% since the end of 1992 ; this magnitude of savings will also be realised for the PS/2 and PS/1 lines this year . |
| 37 | During the course of the century the limitations to government authority over the pomeshchiks were fully exposed . |
| 38 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with Overseas Development Ministers of OECD countries on aid matters over the last month . |
| 39 | Based on this information , meteorological and atmospheric dispersion models are employed to predict the spatial distribution of pollution concentrations over the area . |
| 40 | to assess the degree of convergence or divergence of input provision between and within classes of education authorities over the period 1975-84 ; |
| 41 | The credentials of team B over the last two General Elections have been so patently hopeless that the floating voter has very rightly not applied the principle . |
| 42 | This lock is the uppermost of the mechanized locks and like those below , has a brick control tower and a gantry with traffic lights over the lock chamber . |
| 43 | He became completely obsessed about germs , eventually sealing himself in a hotel room with masking tape over the doors and windows and paper towels over the bed and chairs . |
| 44 | They added that the failure to discipline staff over the BCCI affair had undermined its future effectiveness . |
| 45 | What can we expect from a Government who are dismantling quality training in the construction industry and whose record on training boards over the past decade has been one of failure ? |
| 46 | Mrs Snelling , who was engaged in a power struggle with school governors over the control of her opted-out school , received her OBE , but declined to comment on her award . |
| 47 | In northwest Amazonia ( Venezuela ) , there is evidence for fire disturbance over the last 6000 years , with charcoal deposits under terrafirme forests as well as caatingas , and some of the fires may not have been anthropogenic . |
| 48 | Yellowfin became elusive after the El Nino current change affected the availability of food supplies over the last two decades . |
| 49 | The question which arose in those cases was whether the cessation of trade , in the sense of ‘ putting the shutters up , ’ immediately deprived the court of bankruptcy jurisdiction over the married woman , or whether it continued while the trade debts remained unpaid . |
| 50 | THE National Health Service will be permanently transformed as a result of the Conservative victory , with fund-holding family doctors and self-governing hospitals becoming the more usual form of organisation of health care over the next five years . |
| 51 | LIVERPOOL has had more than its share of pop stars over the years . |
| 52 | Surely that has been one of the major changes of Government policy over the last few years . |
| 53 | In a report to the schools subcommittee , director of education Keith Mitchell said more than £1m was available for the development of nursery schools over the next two years . |
| 54 | In a report to the schools subcommittee , director of education Keith Mitchell says more than £1m is available for the development of nursery units over the next two years . |
| 55 | This ceramic could play an important part in the development of electrode technology over the coming years . |
| 56 | The move , announced at a birds of a feather session at the recent Usenix conference in San Antonio , Texas , marks the end of one of the most influential strands in the development of Unix technology over the years . |
| 57 | The Human Development Report 1992 released by the UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) on April 23 showed that the doubling of income disparities over the last 30 years had enabled " the richest 20 per cent of the world 's people [ to become ] … at least 150 times more than the poorest 20 per cent " . |
| 58 | It is suggested that the revenue from fiscal drag , which currently goes in financing the inflation-proofing of personal tax allowances , and which under these proposals would no longer exist , should be used to finance the doubling of child benefit over the life of a parliament . |
| 59 | Since ocean-floor basalt subsides as it cools while migrating away from the spreading axis , a faster-spreading ridge will be hotter and more buoyant over a larger area and hence will cause more displacement of sea water over the continents . |
| 60 | Finally , the project measures changes in the level and sources of household income over the period and evaluates changes in government policy towards the rural poor . |