Example sentences of "[noun] over the [adj] three years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In fact , there are now more companies with no plans for future investment ( 52 companies ) than companies that had not made any investment over the previous three years ( 43 ) . |
| 3 | Using data supplied by local police forces and government ministries , the report stated that ( i ) 4,611 children and adolescents had died from violence over the previous three years , more than 50 per cent of them shot and the rest killed by stabbing , beating , poisoning or strangling ; ( ii ) young girls were raped and many had died from clandestine abortions after becoming prostitutes ; ( iii ) children were exploited from the age of three by professional beggars , from the age of six by drug traffickers and , if they survived , ended up in armed groups used by criminal gangs and even the police ; ( iv ) the abuse of drugs and solvents was common among street children ; ( v ) an estimated 3,000 children were illegally adopted annually by foreigners , 50 per cent going to Italy and 30 per cent to France , who paid up to US$20,000 for a white child ; and ( vi ) 25,000,000 out of 45,000,000 children were chronically underfed , 30 per cent lived in poverty and 10,000 were child workers . |
| 4 | General KV Krishna Rao , a former army chief , replaces Girish Saxena to co-ordinate anti-terrorist operations by the army and paramilitary forces and organise elections in the state , where around 6,000 people have died in militant-related violence over the past three years . |
| 5 | Mr Shaban told AIBS representatives of the difficulties he had experienced in establishing Amnesty pre-groups in Gaza over the past three years . |
| 6 | Its most controversial suggestion to cut the financial burden on the state was to phase out SERPS over the following three years . |
| 7 | Although tax consultancy fee income rose by 3% to £105m , this compares with a total increase of 134% over the previous three years . |
| 8 | Lord Sanderson , the chairman of the Scottish Conservative & Unionist Association , expressed delight at the appointment and paid tribute to Mr Mitchell 's work over the past three years , particularly in the run-up to the election . |
| 9 | This study is concerned with identifying how far the inflation adjusted accounts which have been produced by large quoted companies over the past three years have economic consequences . |
| 10 | Black ( 1982 ) related changes in net fixed investment to changes in GDP over the previous three years . |
| 11 | I must confess that I have spent barely a fraction of my life paying any attention to the ragbag of funk/rap/rawk stomps that have swanned across the Atlantic over the past three years , but even RATM are sufficiently wired to blow several of my brain cells . |
| 12 | Though they admitted a whole series of assaults over the previous three years , they disputed their frequency , he said in his closing speech . |
| 13 | IN HIS final interview with AEA Times as chairman of AEA Technology , John Maltby praised the enormous efforts of staff in effecting the changes within the organisation over the past three years . |
| 14 | That is because we 've given them good service over the past three years . |
| 15 | Even some in new houses now want to move out because of the construction works , traffic congestion , and a general decline in the image and attractiveness of Docklands over the past three years . |
| 16 | In a statement Mr Brown the recessions in North America and the United Kingdom had adversely affected Thomson 's businesses over the past three years , particularly newspaper publishing . |
| 17 | Another survey , carried out by Trent Polytechnic , revealed a 30 per cent decline in numbers of the common frog over the past three years . |
| 18 | However , the figures of 2,561 drivers humiliated for a 3.2 per cent return were only the average over the previous three years in Nottingham . |
| 19 | ICI says that three out of 10 of its graduate intake over the past three years ( a total of about 300 ) have been female . |
| 20 | The reshaping of Virgin 's musical policy over the past three years , under Simon Draper 's direction , had positioned the record label perfectly to capitalise on the new developments in pop . |
| 21 | If Mr Rocard runs into new difficulties , he can always push important bills through with the swift and effective parliamentary guillotine — an arguably undemocratic device he has already used 11 times over the past three years . |
| 22 | Despite increased teaching loads over the past three years , the School , as a whole , has very substantially increased its research funding and its research output , over the 3–4 year period of assessment . |
| 23 | The museum is of course within the private sector , but the Department of Trade and Industry has provided pump-priming financial support over the past three years , totalling £650,000 . |
| 24 | New medium-term targets aimed at progressively reducing the public-sector deficit over the following three years were also adopted . |
| 25 | S 212 gives a public company the power to investigate the ownership of its shares by sending a written notice to any person or company which it believes has had an interest in its share capital over the previous three years . |
| 26 | He outlined the Company 's trading performance over the past three years and prospects for the coming year ( as detailed below ) before answering wide ranging questions from employees . |
| 27 | The rest took early retirement at different points over the following three years . |
| 28 | The exhibition , open until the end of the month , comprises a dozen knotted constructions and a series of ‘ combustions ’ produced by Jaccard over the past three years . |
| 29 | She failed to win a coveted Emmy award for her show Roseanne , America 's most-watched sitcom over the past three years . |
| 30 | ‘ It is quite true that he had the pharmacist 's poodle bitch twice in fifteen minutes on the steps of the Convent of St Mary , but he has had almost every bitch in Porto Venus over the past three years . |