Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] over the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The improvement in the speed and comfort of coach travel over the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was very striking , although overshadowed by the even more dramatic later impact of the railways . |
| 2 | I am pleased to report further extensions of home care over the last year to meet the growing needs in Glasgow and also to cover a greater area of the South Coast and the East Midlands . |
| 3 | The House has been rightly concerned at the creeping extension of Community competence over the last few years . |
| 4 | Surely that has been one of the major changes of Government policy over the last few years . |
| 5 | THE National Health Service will be permanently transformed as a result of the Conservative victory , with fund-holding family doctors and self-governing hospitals becoming the more usual form of organisation of health care over the next five years . |
| 6 | A review of the Garden 's options for the use of information technology over the next five years was carried out and made available for staff comments . |
| 7 | The most striking aspect of prison reform over the last two centuries is how little of it there has been . |
| 8 | There will be a reduction in the rate of technology change over the next few years to reflect the reality of the market ’ . |
| 9 | He has helped and supported Gwen , his third wife , through her battle against breast cancer over the last year . |
| 10 | Following these discoveries one of the most noticeable trends in skin care over the next few years looks set to be the development of products which are specifically ‘ Retin-A compatible ’ . |
| 11 | Given the revolution in business technology over the last twenty years and its implications for all aspects of business , there is a need for experts in the field of business communication . |
| 12 | To take just one example : Associated British Ports ( the former British Transport Docks Board ) has paid over £60 million in corporation tax over the last five years . |
| 13 | India is the classic case of transformation in food production over the last two decades . |
| 14 | It will indeed be tragic if the mortality from paracetamol overdose over the next quarter of a century proves to be as high as that of the last . |
| 15 | That follows on a steady increase in nursery provision over the last few years . |
| 16 | The work has now made possible some extremely interesting analyses of changes in time use over the last twenty-five years . |
| 17 | Interest in the abundance of groundwater resources has been rekindled , after the emphasis on water quality over the last few years . |
| 18 | President Bush proposed a near-doubling of federal spending on airport expansion over the next five years — but would pay the bill with a controversial departures tax . |
| 19 | Cleveland 's total bill for school vandalism over the last 12 months rocketed after an arson attack on Greengates School , Redcar , when £800,000 worth of damage was caused . |
| 20 | In northwest Amazonia ( Venezuela ) , there is evidence for fire disturbance over the last 6000 years , with charcoal deposits under terrafirme forests as well as caatingas , and some of the fires may not have been anthropogenic . |