Example sentences of "[noun] over the [adj] four [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More broadly , the strategy forms a kind of palimpsest of liberal views about the subsidised arts over the past four decades . |
| 2 | After all , she had had lots of practice over the last four years ! |
| 3 | Not only did he own Werner Lines , a worldwide shipping empire with more than vessels in commission , but he had also branched out into the freight industry over the past four years and succeeded in cornering an important section of its competitive market by buying out a succession of small , struggling companies and amalgamating them under an experienced board of directors answerable only to him . |
| 4 | This can and must be done through the imposition , by the Secretary of State , of a statutory duty on MPAs to review such permissions over the next four years . |
| 5 | Lewis can become a multi-millionaire over the next four years if he becomes our first world heavyweight champion for nearly a century — and defends successfully . |
| 6 | Finally the Meeting was brought to a close by the new chairman , Hilda Lodge , who made a presentation on behalf of the Society to June Bascombe in recognition of all her hard work over the last four years . |
| 7 | It 's extremely risky that we could lose all of that work over the next four months . |
| 8 | It is good to report that branch membership has increased by 46% over the last four years . |
| 9 | But I need n't have worried , she came to me just as smoothly as before , and I flew her half a dozen times a session over the next four days . |
| 10 | As the Venice Biennale approaches its centenary year , political machinations , seemingly so dear to the heart of Italian and particularly Venetian cultural activities , are holding up the appointment of new members of the Management Committee which is responsible for the programme of the Biennale over the next four years . |
| 11 | Nor is it good news for the majority of people who already own-especially those who became first-time buyers over the past four years and whose complete capital has been wiped out : more than a million such people are probably technically bankrupt but need not admit it so long as they keep paying their mortgage . |
| 12 | In 1891 , when shipbuilding was distressed , Harland was persuaded to introduce a system of cost plus contracts for favoured customers which secured a large volume of business over the next four years . |
| 13 | So individual examples have been chosen as representative of many others , followed by a statistical appraisal of the entry and drop-out rate of all firms in the British headhunting business over the last four decades . |
| 14 | The review will take place over the next four years with all the changes in place by 1998 . |
| 15 | The title has been widely purchased by hobbyists , student , trainees , colleges , training departments and a very wide range of retail and industrial organisations over the past four years . |
| 16 | Freeman , a BAIE member , initiated British Gas 's sponsorship of the Bobby Charlton sports school , which has enabled 10,000 youngsters all over Britain to receive free tuition in a wide range of sports over the past four years . |
| 17 | Farr-Jones has not only proven himself to be the world 's leading scrum-half , but his captaincy over the past four years has grown in maturity and stature with each test and tour match . |
| 18 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in sending congratulations to a Yorkshire manufacturing company , Spring Ram plc , which at the end of the month will open two new factories in my constituency , creating 400 new jobs , which is at present building two new factories in Barnsley which will create 400 new jobs , and which has a plan to create 1,100 new jobs in Bradford over the next four years ? |
| 19 | The US Administration 's Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has appealed to industry to halve emissions of 17 toxic substances over the next four years — or face potentially costly controls imposed by government . |
| 20 | Finally Northern Ireland shows that there has been decline in output over the preceding four months and the only region t t to say that erm it 's fair to say that North Northern Ireland has been a weak region throughout er the recession erm and although in this survey optimism has climbed up a bit so it 's close to the U K average , it 's nevertheless a part of the U K which has really been behaving er rather differently from the rest of the economy reflecting its sort of , i its particular problems and the fact that it 's not part of the mainland economy . |
| 21 | Erm looking at the employ sorry looking at the output side er the question looking at trends and output over the last four months shows that in all the four regions manufacturers say that output has increased over the preceding four months . |
| 22 | All Nora could say was that funds in all the banks were exhausted and their known outgoings over the next four weeks exceeded their best estimate of income three-fold . |
| 23 | Built into most policy development over the past four decades , even anti-sexist and anti-racist initiatives , has been the assumption that girls and black pupils are ‘ problems ’ ; that they either have problems or pose problems that are different from other groups of pupils . |
| 24 | Claiming that a coup was being planned even before he introduced economic austerity policies on taking office three years previously , Pérez told foreign correspondents on Feb. 9 that he intended to continue with his economic policies but would bring forward a $4,000 million social project to improve health care , education and social welfare over the next four years . |
| 25 | In two careful analyses of the survey evidence over the past four months , the Washington Post and the American Political Report , an influential newsletter , have come to broadly similar conclusions . |
| 26 | HUTCHISON Telecommunications has promised to invest £500m in the UK over the next four years , part of which will be used to increase the customer service department in Darlington . |
| 27 | And Stena Sealink claimed that the total market had grown by a mammoth 39pc over the first four months of 1993 compared with the previous year . |
| 28 | At any rate , they are the best marks that were to appear on his performance schedule over the next four years , when his average ran at 56.4 per cent . |
| 29 | The £3.2m investment in the pottery includes the provision of new kilns and is expected to result in a trebling of the workforce over the next four years . |
| 30 | Future payments totalling $18.5m will depend on average post-tax profits over the next four years . |