Example sentences of "[noun] over the [num ord] [num] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Mr Major wants to ensure that his drive to improve public services is translated into a practical programme over the next five years . |
| 7 | In September 1989 a draft law was presented which aimed to facilitate a large-scale privatization programme over the next five years . |
| 8 | Ecotech-approved alternatives to other products in the PC range will be introduced in a rolling programme over the next five years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Seemed an odd move to sell him and then pay out such big amounts for Wallace and Rocky over the next 2 years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 " . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There were ten further performances over the next eight days . |
| 18 | COPING AWARD : a local laundry has offered Mrs J vouchers to cover fifty per cent of the cost of washing bed-linen over the next six months . ’ |
| 19 | The increasing stocking density evident in Powys over the last 3 decades also explains the broadleaved woodland regeneration problem and clarifies why such woods are now often grazed to billiard table-like turf when in the more distant past grazing levels must have been low enough to allow regeneration . |
| 20 | A SUCCESSFUL tooling company is on the expansion trail , with hopes of 70 new jobs in North Powys over the next three years as a result of a £4m investment programme . |
| 21 | Parcelforce has made a loss over the last two years , despite strong efforts to turn the business around . |
| 22 | This year 's profits will be used to help fund a record £1.5billion programme of investment over the next five years to cope with what is described as ‘ a phenomenal ’ growth in mail . |
| 23 | Last year , the government announced it would receive a $20 thousand million investment over the next five years , including private sector funds . |
| 24 | GERMANY 'S railway system will need £140 billion of investment over the next eight years and should be privatised to avoid a budgetary ‘ disaster ’ for taxpayers , the head of the rail network Heinz Durr told the government . |
| 25 | In a report to the schools subcommittee , director of education Keith Mitchell says more than £1m is available for the development of nursery units over the next two years . |
| 26 | As a result , HDS , which PRC bid as part of its offering , could see orders potentially worth 43,000 units over the next five years , an estimated value of $75m . |
| 27 | Central government has sunk over 1,200 waterholes in southern and western provinces over the last ten years , and continues to sink about 150 boreholes a year in Lusaka alone . |
| 28 | Still panting , she struggled to maintain a vestige of self-respect as the press demanded a full briefing of her domestic itinerary over the last 24 hours . |
| 29 | I have immensely valued your advice , help , support , commitment , encouragement and above all your friendship over the last six years . |
| 30 | A SOLDIER was killed by an IRA sniper last night — victim No. 3,001 in Ulster 's grim death toll over the last 23 years . |