Example sentences of "[noun] over [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sunbeds have received a lot of bad publicity over the last years . |
| 32 | MASSIVE overseas contracts , particularly in the Far East , will help underpin growth at North West Water over the coming years , the group said today . |
| 33 | Table 2.2 demonstrates changes over the seventeen years to 1987 : western Europe took over half our exports for the first time in recent history ; by 1987 , the EC alone took virtually half , and most other destinations , except for North America , had declined in relative importance . |
| 34 | It is important that there should be not only a record of the climates of the past on all time scales , but also a continuing record of short-term fluctuations of climate ( variations over a few years ) coordinated on a global scale . |
| 35 | Undergraduate admissions over the past years show interesting trends in the number of mature entrants , now about one quarter of the total undergraduate population , and the number of Scottish domiciled students . |
| 36 | I began with some general considerations on the division of labour and social collectivities , then offered an account of the development of political forces and their support blocs over the post-war years . |
| 37 | Written parliamentary replies on Jan. 18 , Feb. 15 and June 28 , 1990 , stated that ( i ) net proceeds from privatization over the seven years from April 1983 amounted to some £26,000 million ; ( ii ) net proceeds from privatization in 1989-90 were most recently estimated at £4,250 million , and ( iii ) approximately 11,000,000 people owned shares . |
| 38 | This suggests that relatively more females had become either ‘ known ’ or involved in opioid use over the two years . |
| 39 | When you visit the factory , you will see the different stages of manufacturing , from the mixing of ingredients to the extrusion of the mixture and the lettering in the rock , the preparation of the famous John Bull Fudge and Toffees — made with real cream and butter the old fashioned way to recipes over a 100 years old . |
| 40 | Newspaper reports on 12th March that the Bank of Ireland is to shed 600 of its staff over the coming years could not come at a worse time for the economy . |
| 41 | Chairman , it 's always been this Committee 's policy over the twenty years , the twenty odd years that I 've been here , back here ru runner , that erm , so far as the food side is concerned , er , we should be , our policy should be based on the information , the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth , and letting people make up their own minds . |
| 42 | In any event adjustments are required where the cumulative inflation rate over the three years is approaching or exceeds 100 per cent and the operations in the hyper-inflationary economies are material to the group . |
| 43 | But the employers persuaded them to hold off until 1966 , when they settled for a mere 5 per cent rise over the three years to 1969 . |
| 44 | Then again , his paternalistic leadership style , his willingness to bring ex-Nazis into office , his pro-Westernism and his fostering of materialism were to invite widespread criticism in Germany over the following years . |
| 45 | The number of male suicides over the ten years was 2,073 — almost three times the total of females ( 682 ) . |
| 46 | Obesity increased equally in all groups over the 20 years or so of follow up , despite sustained medical advice but without help from a dietitian . |
| 47 | A similar fate befell other proposals over the following years . |
| 48 | Most of the cost will at first be picked up at the federal level , but the BMFT will gradually reduce its share of financial support over the eight years . |
| 49 | Table 6.2 summarizes major evaluation projects over the five years from 1982–87 . |
| 50 | " The European Council is convinced that harmonious development of the Union over the coming years depends to a considerable degree on the strict application to existing and future legislation of the principle of subsidiarity by all the institutions . " |
| 51 | At various stages over the eleven years , statements were made promising action . |
| 52 | In addition to our aim of forecasting the course of Wirral 's heroin ‘ epidemic ’ , the second multi-agency enumeration survey also allowed us to investigate whether there had been any changes in the social and drug-using characteristics of known heroin users over the two years of research . |
| 53 | While the defence division saw operating profit fall to £9.3m from £10.5m last time , and suffered from lack of new contracts , Hunting reckons the Atomic Weapons Establishment deal will be a significant contributor over the coming years . |
| 54 | They complained about smears and innuendos over the two years since their release . |
| 55 | The remit which I set myself is to examine in outline the ways in which the political parties have both responded to and helped to shape the pertinent social collectivities in Britain over the post-war years , and how the activities of political forces have been constrained by , and have served to maintain or transform , the economic class relations of British capitalism . |
| 56 | Bill Brett , general secretary of the Institution of Professional Civil Servants , which includes air traffic controllers and transport safety inspectors declared his concern over the cuts in the safety inspectorate over the recent years , and growing pressure on overworked air traffic controllers coping with increased traffic . |
| 57 | Pension funds increased thirtyfold in size over the twenty-five years to 1985 ; insurance companies grew fourteenfold over the same period . |
| 58 | In addition , savers can miss up to six monthly payments over the five years provided they are made up in the months immediately following the five-year term . |
| 59 | Much of this expenditure has been funded by loans from parishes which have contributed £1,514,000 over the four years , leaving almost £1,700,000 to be funded from diocesan resources — in other words , the disposal of assets . |
| 60 | This project aims at monitoring by quantitative analysis some aspects of changes in the structure of British central government departments over the dozen years from 1972 to date . |