Example sentences of "[noun sg] over the [num ord] [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 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 .
4 Mr Major wants to ensure that his drive to improve public services is translated into a practical programme over the next five years .
5 In September 1989 a draft law was presented which aimed to facilitate a large-scale privatization programme over the next five years .
6 Ecotech-approved alternatives to other products in the PC range will be introduced in a rolling programme over the next five years .
7 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 .
8 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 " .
9 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 .
10 Parcelforce has made a loss over the last two years , despite strong efforts to turn the business around .
11 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 .
12 Last year , the government announced it would receive a $20 thousand million investment over the next five years , including private sector funds .
13 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 .
14 I have immensely valued your advice , help , support , commitment , encouragement and above all your friendship over the last six years .
15 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 .
16 After all , she had had lots of practice over the last four years !
17 Much of geography over the last 40 years has been concerned with analysing these subsystems by breaking down each subsystem into ever smaller component parts and studying these parts , and their interrelationships , at an increasing level of detail .
18 At the first stage of the project , a selective economic history of the industry over the last 120 years was compiled ( B/00/23/2070 ) .
19 Pictures of stars who have made most contribution to the music industry over the last 25 years featured at a glittering party in New York 's Four Seasons Restaurant .
20 A report by Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) has attacked government plans for the expansion of the gas industry over the next five years .
21 Per Andersen of IDC 's European Unix Centre says this trend will shape the industry over the next two years .
22 Per Andersen of IDC 's European Unix Expertise Centre believes this to be a significant trend that will shape the industry over the next two years .
23 All right , let us talk about yesterday if the hon. Gentleman wants — let us talk about giving more than £1 billion to industry over the next two years to ensure that there is no increase in business rates .
24 The ending of mining rights would lead to a loss of some 20,000 jobs and $ 2 billion in revenue over the next seven years .
25 The painstaking work on the wreck undertaken by the amateur Chelmsford Sub-Acqua Club over the last twelve years will be the subject of an exhibition at the Maritime Museum this year .
26 ‘ We need to know exactly how Welsh Water 's long sea outfall off Kinmel Bay will influence pollution off our coast over the next 30 years , and we need to know that before they build their sewage works , ’ she added .
27 The hearings system is claimed to have turned thousands of youngsters away from a life of crime over the last 20 years , but because of the confidential nature of the work done by reporters and panel members , much of the evidence is anecdotal .
28 Thousands of Italians have settled in the North-East over the last hundred years .
29 ‘ York 's football over the last two years makes Berwick v Arbroath relatively breathtaking , ’ he says .
30 A shift in the financial management of football over the last ten years has brought a new and more aggressive generation of directors to the forefront of the game .
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