Example sentences of "[noun] over the [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government agreed to clear US$90,000,000 of official arrears on external payments by the end of March 1991 , and to allow the island 's commercial banks to clear a further US$157,000,000 in private-sector arrears over the next 30 months through a series of bond issues . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It requires courage and support from sympathetic colleagues to admit that the things that have been happening in classrooms or schools over the past 20 years have been wrong , pigheaded or simply inefficient . |
| 4 | Anyone who studies academic standards in our schools over the past 20 years must recognise that there have been considerable improvements . |
| 5 | A Mr Shawcross , chairman of the examination board of the NUT , offered a similar contribution : he spoke of the " revolutionary change " in the teaching of English in elementary schools over the previous ten years , and he went on ( in the words of the bulletin report ) to give " his experience of Manchester children under the old system " : |
| 6 | Farman has claimed that the assertion of the chemical industry that its activities would only contribute 1 per cent to the green-house effect over the next 120 years are " seriously underestimated " . |
| 7 | Make arrangements satisfactory to patients and staff locally for the closure over the next ten years or so of those mental illness hospitals which are not well placed to provide a service reaching out into the community and are already near the end of their useful life . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | By the summer of 1967 , when he left the Department of Education and Science for the Board of Trade , £16m. had been made available for a building programme over the next two years , with a further £18m. to follow in 1971/2 . |
| 10 | Mr Major wants to ensure that his drive to improve public services is translated into a practical programme over the next five years . |
| 11 | In September 1989 a draft law was presented which aimed to facilitate a large-scale privatization programme over the next five years . |
| 12 | Ecotech-approved alternatives to other products in the PC range will be introduced in a rolling programme over the next five years . |
| 13 | By looking at events that have taken place in Leicestershire over the past 90 years , this project aims to build up a picture of the long-term changes that have taken place in the levels and patterns of violence in various spheres of social life . |
| 14 | A representative of the mainly-Muslim Bosnian army , which seized the village in fierce fighting over the last five days , said they would not be harmed if they stayed . |
| 15 | Seemed an odd move to sell him and then pay out such big amounts for Wallace and Rocky over the next 2 years . |
| 16 | Menem also indicated that Argentina , in return for EC aid and improved trading arrangements , would be prepared to accept up to 300,000 immigrants from the former Eastern bloc over the next three years ; he discussed with EC commissioners the possible arrival of 40,000 immigrants in the short term . |
| 17 | Environmental quality appraisals over the past 30 years showed that the nuclear industry had had an " inconsiderable " effect on the country 's environment , he said . |
| 18 | NHS dentists ’ incomes have dropped in real terms by 40pc over the past ten years and the most recent savage cuts proposed , leave many practitioners worried about possible bankruptcy . ’ |
| 19 | NeXT says it also has a $3m contract for 400 NeXTstation computers over the next 18 months from Mobil Oil Corp 's Mobil Sales & Supply Corp , which wants them to serve as traders ' workstations . |
| 20 | If we look at the development of computers over the past 30 years we see accelerated change of a phenomenal nature . |
| 21 | And SEARS , the high street stores giant which sells Dolcis and Saxone shoes , is closing 350 shops over the next three years with the loss of 1,700 people . |
| 22 | But developments in Britain and the United States over the past two years suggest that micros need ultimately to cost little more than a tape recorder or a good transistor radio . |
| 23 | There has , however , been an increasing recognition in the United States over the past 25 years that community based services for people with long term mental illness have too often been fragmented . |
| 24 | My experience with fifty millesimal potencies over the past nine months , with approximately 400 patients , has proved to me that Hahnemann was correct . |
| 25 | The European Communities ( EC ) announced grant aid for Ethiopia worth $387,000,000 over the next five years , to be directed towards rural development and small-scale industry and agriculture , with the emphasis on the private sector . |
| 26 | Economic thinking over the last 40 years , the report observed , had shifted dramatically away from the promotion of state-directed industrialization towards a more " market-friendly " approach to development , but " markets sometimes prove inadequate or fail altogether " and " governments must , for example , invest in infrastructure and provide essential services to the poor " . |
| 27 | It should also be stated that changes in political thinking over the past three years have changed the complexion of the West German energy future . |
| 28 | His own thinking over the next three years was developed , accordingly , through successive disagreements with Lyell 's views on the organic world , while he continued to accept his mentor 's teaching on the physical world of land , sea and climate changes . |
| 29 | The consequence of the Knoyles ' poverty and the Hutchings ' absenteeism over the previous two centuries was that the Manor House had a miraculous escape from Georgian owners wanting to keep up with the times . |
| 30 | Despite writing a pet column for the Daily Telegraph for more than four years , I have been given no information at all about Crufts over the past two years . |