Example sentences of "[noun] over the [num ord] [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's been something like twenty per cent cut over the last few years and erm some faculty members have taken early retirement and left , so a lot of subjects have lost some of their most able people . |
| 2 | She well be reviewing the foundation 's programme over the last few years with the aim of identifying any gaps or areas where new initiatives might be needed . |
| 3 | We prove it to them by demonstrating that the money we need for research and investment over the next few years is in place . |
| 4 | ‘ We have made very consistent efforts to brand Phaidon books over the last few years , putting the Phaidon name on the front and back of all our books as a brand image of quality , ’ he said . |
| 5 | He likes Elland Road , he 's built up a squad that looks like it could develop into a REAL force over the next few years & he 'd be mad to leave for a job where he has a competition every 2 years/a draw 's a bad result/and nobody likes him ! |
| 6 | ‘ If you are in quality stocks with strong balance sheets in less cyclical areas of the market you will do well in equities over the next few years . ’ |
| 7 | Though the move could help to speed up investment in a few large projects , there were fears last night that the sudden change in the offshore tax system could hit the bulk of the smaller oil and gas projects which were expected to provide most of the work for the offshore supply industry over the next few years . |
| 8 | Magritte has performed extremely well at auction over the last few years , according to Melanie Clore of Sotheby 's Impressionist Pictures Department . |
| 9 | But it is also a consequence of the academic stagnation over the last few years of much that is called industrial archaeology in England . |
| 10 | Digital has run down sections of its operation in Ireland over the last few years , including the closure of a plant a Clonmel with the loss of 350 jobs . |
| 11 | The Faunus Kennel has dominated the Swedish scene over the last few years , one of their top winners being Faunus Bullit . |
| 12 | Moody 's expects that the telephone companies will be able to improve their financial flexibility over the next few years , largely offsetting increasing competitive risks . |
| 13 | The London area plays a pivotal role in national migration patterns ( Flowerdew and Salt , 1979 ; Salt and Flowerdew , 1980 ) , so policy developments relating to south-east England over the next few years will be crucial to the way in which urban and regional patterns of population distribution evolve in the foreseeable future . |
| 14 | Voting rights in local elections for nationals of all Community Member States , wider powers for the Court of Auditors , clearer duties on Member States to fight fraud against the Community budget and progress towards a single currency are all examples of matters supported by the Select Committee over the last few years and now set out in the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 15 | The new standard is the result of much hard work over the last few years by manufacturers , contractors and specifiers . |
| 16 | It will be mentioned in several contexts that the complexity of CAB advice work over the last few years has increased considerably . |
| 17 | Now it seems to me , that er , the watch-word for our policy development work over the next few years , must be effective co-ordination with our members and the wider voluntary sector . |
| 18 | An important strategic requirement over the next few years will be to make progress with the resolution of these questions which bear crucially on the structure of a collegiate university and raise fundamental questions about the nature of undergraduate teaching at Oxford and its relationship with graduate teaching and supervision . |
| 19 | In the Far East it already has two partners in the shape of Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co Ltd and presently state-owned Singapore Telecom , and the trio say they will spend over $100m over the next few years on WorldPartners . |
| 20 | Mr Tabiner , 40 , sees the unitary issue as one of the major issues for the council over the next few years . |
| 21 | Events in many countries over the last few years must have re-awakened in every English soul , an awareness of what it means to be English . |
| 22 | The weakness in passenger traffic , which fell 8 p.c last year , and operating losses have not prevented the airline from launching the most successful expansion programme among European airlines so far , in a bid to be among the few groups which are expected to survive deregulation over the next few years . |
| 23 | Howard Davies , the commission 's controller , says that , as schools are given more financial and managerial independence over the next few years , authorities should monitor quality on behalf of ratepayers and parents , rather than pretending that all their schools are equally good . |
| 24 | ‘ In addition , we have a number of significant discoveries awaiting development , which will contribute substantially to a rising production and cash flow profile over the next few years , ’ he added . |
| 25 | Chaos and fractal imagery have hit the technical and popular imagination over the last few years , and the King 's DSP group is working on a number of applications for this new branch of mathematics . |
| 26 | An issue for research libraries over the next few years is to seize the opportunity offered by technology for enrichment of OPACs as electronic access tools . |
| 27 | ‘ People have got used to England winning line-out balls over the last few years . |
| 28 | I have to confess extreme disappointment with most new versions over the last few years , making my pleasure in the newcomer even greater . |
| 29 | According to MacWeek , the development will be the first fruits of a planned family of multi-environment technologies that the company is calling Companion , which also involves plans for a thorough overhaul of the Macintosh interface over the next few years . |
| 30 | we have extremely good erm figure on a reduction in accident over the last few years and I 'd like to erm , I 'd like Councillor to erm to prevail our thanks to the road safety officers |