Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] over the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although promotion slipped from our grasp early on , our fight for survival over the last seven months has been real nail-biting stuff . |
| 2 | CCG HAS started a new contract to provide school meals for the London Borough of Wandesworth over the next four years . |
| 3 | Constanze was to spend a good deal of time over the next two years at Baden , where her husband often visited her . |
| 4 | El Segundo , California-based systems integrator , Computer Sciences Corp , and Sun Microsystems Inc are teaming to offer client/server solutions to aeroplane builders — the two expect to win $80m of business over the next 18 months : CSC won the $3bn , 10-year outsourcing contract with General Dynamics in 1991 . |
| 5 | Study in Midlothian had shown a 33% loss , East Lothian a 23% loss and Bedfordshire in England had shown a remarkable 82% loss of ponds over the last century . |
| 6 | Er w which in turn is is intended to minimize the loss of staff over the next two years . |
| 7 | This has come about partly as a result of research over the last 10 years or so into various forms of involvement in the teaching of reading . |
| 8 | The French and British governments are following exactly the opposite policies on production in the public sector ; the French have nationalised an additional 12% of industrial output while the British have begun to sell public assets to the private sector and to plan a vigorous programme of privatisation over the next few years . |
| 9 | This year 's profits will be used to help fund a record £1.5billion programme of investment over the next five years to cope with what is described as ‘ a phenomenal ’ growth in mail . |
| 10 | He will be discussing the future of Leeds over the next 5 years or so . |
| 11 | The relation between the theory and practice of perspective over the next four centuries is examined in detail . |
| 12 | It was with his father Paul 's encouragement that Pascal eventually set to work on the project , which has been ‘ something of a labour of love over the last few years ’ . |
| 13 | He had been asked to make savings of £440,000 over the next three years but says , without more money , police vacancies will be frozen and jobs will be lost . |
| 14 | Party leaders will work on identifying the priorities for Labour 's first term of office over the next year . |
| 15 | It shocked my manager a lot too and he 's going to be concentrating on a big relaunch of Suzanne over the next while so I think it 's a good opportunity for me to take my career more into my own hands . ’ |
| 16 | Seona Reid , director of the SAC , said that priorities had been identified for the development of the arts in Scotland over the next three to four years . |
| 17 | Why , then , may interactive media yet become a major force in training over the next few years ? |
| 18 | The latest Confederation of British Industry survey of manufacturing companies shows that more than six times as many companies expect to maintain or increase their investment in training over the next year than expect to reduce it . |
| 19 | The Rural Development Commission expects 100,000 job losses in agriculture over the next decade and 50,000 associated redundancies because of CAP reform . |
| 20 | More than 130 people , mostly Egyptian militants and police , have died in political violence in Egypt over the last 14 months . |
| 21 | The financial plan showed the investment impact on sales , profit and return on investment per year over the next ten years , while the financing plan described how the investment was to be financed : namely , from borrowings in the early years until the plan became self-financing from funds accrued from current operations , in year four . |
| 22 | Research at Tambopata over the last ten years has shown that the Reserve has more species of birds ( over 570 ) , butterflies ( 1,200 ) and many other animal groups than any other location of its size on earth . ’ |
| 23 | If I could have foreseen the progress of events over the next two years I would probably have stood up and run directly back to Boulogne . |
| 24 | On Mars how many craters greater than 10 km diameter are likely to be produced on a typical 10 6 square kilometre of surface over the next 10 6 years by ( i ) asteroids , ( ii ) comet debris ? |
| 25 | He showed no signs of improvement over the next 48 hours . |
| 26 | Theda had followed in the Gallery of Fashion — which all her young charges had avidly studied — the steady rise of waists over the last three or four years , but never before had she felt quite so outdated . |
| 27 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 28 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 29 | That decision — and many others involving the course of science over the next four years — may rest with a new group of about 30 senior administrators convened two weeks ago by Gibbons and Bowman Cutter of the National Economic Council . |
| 30 | That would certainly make a welcome change , since the weakness of trade over the last year or so has clearly deepened the recession . |