Example sentences of "[noun sg] over the [adj] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I met the management of Trent Buses , which operates in a very competitive , deregulated environment , and I am glad to say that its investment programme over the past five years has been impressive . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mr Major wants to ensure that his drive to improve public services is translated into a practical programme over the next five years . |
| 6 | In September 1989 a draft law was presented which aimed to facilitate a large-scale privatization programme over the next five years . |
| 7 | Ecotech-approved alternatives to other products in the PC range will be introduced in a rolling programme over the next five years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Parcelforce has made a loss over the last two years , despite strong efforts to turn the business around . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Last year , the government announced it would receive a $20 thousand million investment over the next five years , including private sector funds . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The fact that France had already received the lion 's share of new European component investment over the previous five years was beside the point . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ However , I feel justified in saying that the return on our investment over the past two years has been immense . ’ |
| 19 | I have immensely valued your advice , help , support , commitment , encouragement and above all your friendship over the last six years . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Many of those interviewed said their job had changed beyond recognition over the past five years and were providing more personal care at the expense of domestic help . |
| 24 | The contribution which adults other than teachers , both employers and trade unionists , can make to the school curriculum has gained widespread recognition over the past ten years , through the activities of the SCIP , the Royal Society of Arts Industry Year ( 1986 ) , and the more recent DTI initiatives . |
| 25 | Because of the political impasse over the past ten years Cambodia , one of the poorest countries in the world , has received no UN development aid , nor any bilateral or multilateral development aid from the UK . |
| 26 | Scotland has achieved an economic and cultural regeneration over the past 13 years . |
| 27 | Amnesty said that the torture of those detained by the army and police was a daily routine , and that it had received reports of more than 200 cases of torture over the past two years , but believed the true figure to be much higher . |
| 28 | It features elements of many of the trends in classification theory and practice over the past 100 years . |
| 29 | Before examining the more recent developments in self-advocacy and normalisation , however , we need to consider the two approaches which have been prominent and have dominated the emergence and style of professional practice over the past 50 years : the medical and educational approaches . |
| 30 | There have indeed been great changes to public health practice over the past 20 years . |