Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 31 | To take just one example : Associated British Ports ( the former British Transport Docks Board ) has paid over £60 million in corporation tax over the last five years . |
| 32 | Having considered possible explanations for some of the major inter-country differences between the levels of union organisation at a particular point in time it is also useful to examine the related question of the factors which help to explain the year-to-year growth and fluctuations in union membership over the course of time . |
| 33 | Commenting on its fiscal 1993 figures , which saw the company soar through the $2,000m sales mark for the year ( see page five ) Dell Computer Corp said cash and investments totalled $95m at January 31 , down from $155m at the beginning of the fiscal year , but the company added a new $200m revolving line of credit with nine multinational banks ; it invested $47m in capital expenditures over the course of the year , primarily in telecommunications , facilities expansion and systems . |
| 34 | At present , climate patterns — including the 0.3C to 0.6C increase in air temperature over the past 100 years — were on the same scale as natural variations . |
| 35 | For example , the reduction in manufacturing jobs over the last decades in some high wage countries has forced workers to seek jobs in other less well paid and less secure sectors or , as has happened particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom , forced older workers displaced from traditional industries ( like mining and steel-making ) into permanent unemployment . |
| 36 | Er Brian has already confirmed that er he will support the Conservative resolution which in effect recognises that some of the changes in government regulation over the past er decade has not always turned out for the best er this County in particular order er other asked the Secretary of State to re to relieve some of the pressures that generates in that area and it 's for that reason er |
| 37 | The decision came after confusion in government circles over the move and a threat from Andrei Plesu , Minister of Culture , to resign . |
| 38 | This is because the change in the stock in the current quarter ( ) consists of revaluations ( which are a function of the change in asset prices over the quarter ) and new purchases which are a function of expected gains from the time of purchase rather than simply from the end of the current quarter . |
| 39 | Bile secretion was increased in a dose-dependent fashion by intracerebroventricular neuropeptide Y. The peak increase was seen after 500 pM/kg of neuropeptide Y which resulted in a 30.2% increase in bile flow over the period 30–150 minutes after injection . |
| 40 | At the highest dose examined ( 500 pM/kg ) , it resulted in a 30.2% increase in bile output over the period 30–150 minutes after injection when compared with control ( control : 23.2 ( 1.2 ) ml/2 hours ; neuropeptide Y : 30.6 ( 1.1 ) ml/2 hours ) ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 41 | The Bureau was closed down in 1979 and an interesting experiment in State control over the geography of office location came to an end ( Manners and Morris , 1986 ) . |
| 42 | Both authorities will need to invest substantially in information systems over the next decade if they are to maximize the amount of care they can squeeze out of their constrained budgets . |
| 43 | Furthermore , energy was over 30 per cent cheaper in the South than in the northeast in 1980 , according to Agnew ( 1987b , p. 174 ) , who draws on Bensel 's ( 1984 ) work , which combines the energy and unionization advantages of the South , to illustrate the growing gap in growth rates over the post-war decades between , on the one hand , the energy-rich/right-to-work States and , on the other , the energy-disadvantaged ( high cost , mostly imported ) and heavily-unionized . |
| 44 | The result has been to destroy much of the progress in health care over the years preceding each dispute . |
| 45 | A glimpse off how these ‘ compensation effects ’ could work their way through the economy is given in another study , also by the Warwick institute , on the change in employment patterns over the next 10 years . |
| 46 | Since the 1970s , scientists had observed a significant depletion in ozone levels over the Antarctic . |
| 47 | It is appropriate to consider briefly some of the more important developments in world trade over the past fifteen years or so . |
| 48 | To avoid variation in bran composition over the period of the study , a large supply , adequate for the whole study , was stored centrally and distributed to the patients as necessary . |
| 49 | The value of the data base to researchers will be enhanced by the systematic inclusion of references to allow the identification of the parliamentary constituency within each ward falls ; the tracing of changes in ward boundaries over the period since 1973 ; and the matching of ward level electoral data with material collected for the 1981 census . |
| 50 | India is the classic case of transformation in food production over the last two decades . |
| 51 | The reduction in training places over the last two years has also meant that firms can now pick the cream of the universities ' output . |
| 52 | The most spectacular change in mortality rates over the past 150 years has related to deaths within the first year of life — the infant mortality rate . |
| 53 | The main contributory factor here is the greater decline among older women than older men in mortality rates over the last forty years or so , with cancer and circulatory diseases now being the main causes of the higher mortality rate among men ( Ermisch , 1983 , 1990 ) . |
| 54 | A SUCCESSFUL tooling company is on the expansion trail , with hopes of 70 new jobs in North Powys over the next three years as a result of a £4m investment programme . |
| 55 | That follows on a steady increase in nursery provision over the last few years . |
| 56 | This , together with the fall in house prices over the last three years , means that mortgage affordability should fall to a 20 year-low . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | While prices were forcast to fall by about 10 per cent on average next year , a slow decline in interest rates over the next 12 months was seen as prompting a resurgence the following spring . |
| 59 | The steep fall in interest rates over the past two years has boosted their operating profits enormously . |
| 60 | The work has now made possible some extremely interesting analyses of changes in time use over the last twenty-five years . |