Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] over the [adj] five " in BNC.
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| 1 | To assess the degree to which this occurred comments in the potential risks condition from each five second section were compared with those from the description condition over the same five seconds . |
| 2 | The fact that France had already received the lion 's share of new European component investment over the previous five years was beside the point . |
| 3 | The Natural Environment Research Council , which co-ordinates much of Britain 's research into global warming , faces a 10 per cent cut in real terms in its research budget over the next five years — despite the fact that the government stresses the importance of its work . |
| 4 | I met the management of Trent Buses , which operates in a very competitive , deregulated environment , and I am glad to say that its investment programme over the past five years has been impressive . |
| 5 | If we 'd had a boom economy over the last five years , the Stock Exchange would never have thought of phasing out the USM . ’ |
| 6 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the trend in United Kingdom export performance over the past five years . |
| 7 | The Midland Guaranteed Capital Bond is a unit linked single premium life assurance policy that gives your money access to the growth potential of the stock market over the next five years , free of basic rate tax and all Capital Gains Tax . |
| 8 | Another participant pointed out that the Northern Ireland budget over the last five years had only increased in line with inflation . |
| 9 | Jacques Delors , President of the Commission , has recently presented a package to finance the measures adopted by the Maastricht Treaty over the next five years . |
| 10 | A single glance and , one after the other , they will scurry away , leaving me free to place hat , coat , newspaper , boots and Pac-a-Pet box over the remaining five seats and enjoy a journey of uninterrupted solitude . |
| 11 | The article reported a survey by the National Solid Waste Management Association of the change in landfill capacity over the past five years . |
| 12 | If some of these proposals come to pass , they will confirm the trend of BBC policy over the past five years . |
| 13 | The Cheltenham trainer has steadily improved his strike rate over the past five years and should eclipse his 1991/92 tally of 31 . |
| 14 | The maximum number of new shares which may be issued under the schemes is restricted to 5% of the issued ordinary share capital over the first five years ending in 1991 and thereafter 3% over any three year period . |
| 15 | ‘ The tremendous progress made at Wembley Stadium over the past five years is very impressive and is much admired in France , where it was recently described in glowing terms as ‘ La Tempe du Football ’ , ’ said Lionel Dreksler , director of the French national stadium . |
| 16 | In September 1989 a draft law was presented which aimed to facilitate a large-scale privatization programme over the next five years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A report by Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) has attacked government plans for the expansion of the gas industry over the next five years . |
| 19 | The policy has been the cornerstone of China 's efforts to revive state industry over the past five years . |
| 20 | Because of the volatility of precious metal prices , net realisable value is generally taken to be the lower of market prices and average prices ruling over the last five years . |
| 21 | Environmental groups are campaigning for more money and importance to be placed on the needs of cyclists , with a target of doubling cycle use over the next five years . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Hewlett-Packard is beginning to look increasingly like a printer company that also makes and sells computers , so much of the focus was on printers , with Douglas Carnahan , vice-president and general manager of the printing systems group saying that the company hopes to beat the industry 's compound annual growth rate in sales dollars in the printer market over the next five years . |
| 24 | A review of the Garden 's options for the use of information technology over the next five years was carried out and made available for staff comments . |
| 25 | The firm emerges as Britain 's top performing company over the last five years . |
| 26 | President Bush proposed a near-doubling of federal spending on airport expansion over the next five years — but would pay the bill with a controversial departures tax . |
| 27 | Through reorganizing my course material over the last five years I have come to the conclusion that there is no one definitive structure for the study of electronic publishing . |
| 28 | Swinnerton , Curcio and Bennett ( 1988 ) used transactions data on the S&P500 for 1986 , and found that the mispricing was a modest predictor of movements in the spot price over the next five minutes , particularly when futures were overpriced . |