Example sentences of "[art] number of [noun pl] over the " in BNC.

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1 As to the enforcement of lorry weights , we have doubled the number of inspections over the past five years .
2 I hope to gradually increase the number of pages over the next few issues , if funds allow .
3 However , since there are more rape trials today than before , the reader of newspapers would find an increase in the number of reports over the years .
4 By July , the committee reported that in spite of an increase in the number of members over the last quarter , there had been a loss of trade and a decline in share capital .
5 The Worldwide Fund for Nature is , of course , just one part of a huge international Green Movement , in which we have seen massive increases in the number of supporters over the past few years .
6 Er , six bytes across the number of characters over the four characters .
7 Situated on the edge of the attractive village of Tiffield , Ark Farm has evolved from a number of farms over the last 30 years .
8 He said : ‘ We have had a number of complaints over the last few months . ’
9 But there 've been a number of changes over the years , certainly prior to nineteen seventy four that would be the case , water boards supplying water , local councils treating treating the sewage , and the rivers authorities looking after the river pollution aspects .
10 The mill had a number of owners over the years , its major business starting when , by the 1860s , it was taken over by Reece and Sandford .
11 Special thesaurus software has a number of advantages over the alternative , which is usually the use of a database package or a word processing package to store terms .
12 They had a number of fires over the years at 's Mill , er and one was in eighteen sixty six or sixty seven .
13 raises yet again a problem that has been before the Court of Appeal on a number of occasions over the past 10 years or so .
14 The implications for my daughter 's safety and security , and and mine and the rest of my family 's , because there have been a number of occasions over the years when I 've had to turn to the police because of my anxiety about that when there 's been a lot of attention from the media and when the press have published our address and so on erm and we 've had I 've had specific death threats particularly against my daughter on one occasion .
15 The advice on how to put planning for development into practice can be supported by the experiences shared by the Council and a number of bodies over the last three years .
16 The desirability of continued economic growth has been raised by a number of economists over the past decade and the titles of their publications make their conclusions clear — Does Money Buy Happiness ?
17 The deaths in police custody of a number of detainees over the years have also been controversial .
18 Benzie ( 1991 ) outlined a number of doubts over the general prospects for international bond issuance .
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