Example sentences of "[noun] over the [num ord] four years " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , she had had lots of practice over the last four years ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is good to report that branch membership has increased by 46% over the last four years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The review will take place over the next four years with all the changes in place by 1998 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Future payments totalling $18.5m will depend on average post-tax profits over the next four years . |
| 16 | However the Lyceum , unlike the King 's , depends on subsidy from the Scottish Arts Council which is planning to cut its funding in real terms over the next four years . |
| 17 | Intelsat plans to take the capacity as a stop-gap while it awaits delivery of 10 new birds over the next four years . |
| 18 | There were hard fights over the next four years which I do not resent . |
| 19 | These and other findings — reported at a meeting of the American Society of Testing and Materials — contradict extensive evidence of damage to the local environment presented by government researchers over the last four years . |
| 20 | THE risk of war with the former Soviet Union may have vanished , but plenty of fighting is still going on ; not least over which military bases should be shut down as the Pentagon tries to trim $1.1 billion from its budget over the next four years . |
| 21 | One of the most important tasks for WACC 's Central Committee this year is to authorise proposals for a new study and action programme which would guide all WACC 's activities over the next four years and prepare the organisation for its second world congress in 1995 . |
| 22 | Sun Microsystems Inc had to do something to prove it 's muscling into retail like Hewlett-Packard Co so it went and sold Dunkin' Donuts $8m worth of IPC machines to network more than half its 1,600 franchise operations over the next four years . |
| 23 | His pledge to halve the deficit over the next four years is largely based on eliminating 100,000 government jobs . |
| 24 | The disease is very similar to one which has affected pigs in the US over the last four years . |
| 25 | At that meeting he will be able to announce to clubs that ITV has agreed to pay more than £7m over the next four years , an extension of a contract in which it paid £10.5m over five years . |
| 26 | Ms Judy Weleminsky , director of the fellowship , said the Government should allocate the sum over the next four years to prevent patients — many suffering from schizophrenia — being discharged without proper supervision . |
| 27 | Employees who are householders receive this allowance , paid over nine years , on a reducing basis of one-fifth of the original amount over the last four years . |
| 28 | Todd reckons that Christie can gross between £1 and £4million over the next four years . |
| 29 | No wonder the Socialists ' manifesto offers measures to reduce unemployment , invest Ptas500 billion ( $1 billion ) in training over the next four years , and build 500,000 new houses . |
| 30 | Average annual growth over the next four years was forecast at 2 per cent . |