Example sentences of "[noun pl] over the [adj] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It requires courage and support from sympathetic colleagues to admit that the things that have been happening in classrooms or schools over the past 20 years have been wrong , pigheaded or simply inefficient . |
| 3 | Anyone who studies academic standards in our schools over the past 20 years must recognise that there have been considerable improvements . |
| 4 | A Mr Shawcross , chairman of the examination board of the NUT , offered a similar contribution : he spoke of the " revolutionary change " in the teaching of English in elementary schools over the previous ten years , and he went on ( in the words of the bulletin report ) to give " his experience of Manchester children under the old system " : |
| 5 | Environmental quality appraisals over the past 30 years showed that the nuclear industry had had an " inconsiderable " effect on the country 's environment , he said . |
| 6 | If we look at the development of computers over the past 30 years we see accelerated change of a phenomenal nature . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I was introduced to Punch at the age of 12 , grew up on Basil Boothroyd and have relied on my weekly ‘ fix ’ to get me through life 's crises over the past 47 years — including moving house six times , several bereavements , liquidation ( yes , me too ! ! ) , my daughter 's attempted suicide and my recent divorce . |
| 9 | They find significant differences in the neodymium isotope compositions of small and large eruptive sequences over the past 300,000 years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is easiest to understand the modern methods for measuring electrical activity from the brain by looking at the development of these methods over the past hundred years or so . |
| 14 | Expansion of Career Development Loans to provide 60,000 more opportunities over the next three years |
| 15 | As kite-makers and everyday enthusiasts for kite flying , the Peacock family of St.Albans had also been the winners over the first two years of the Kite Society 's Rokkaku Challenge . |
| 16 | The shock statistics reveal a sharp rise in drug abuse of all kinds among teenagers over the past two years . |
| 17 | Responding to a national survey which showed a modest improvement in lifestyles over the past seven years , Dr Wilde said individuals needed greater help from retailers , food producers , planners , teachers , environmental health officers and politicians . |
| 18 | It reckons more than 8,400 new jet airliners will be sold by western manufacturers over the next 15 years , worth more than $500 billion ( see chart overleaf ) . |
| 19 | Human population expansion is threatening to lead to unprecedented extinctions of plants and animals over the next 50 years , according to a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) . |
| 20 | The fast-swimming Dall 's porpoise has been particularly hard hit in the North Pacific and hundreds of thousands of animals over the last 20 years have been entangled in the giant drift-nets of the salmon , squid , and tuna fisheries . |
| 21 | Dolphin , which has been developing SCI over the last two years , will add its own SCI-based multi-processing system using the Motorola Inc 88110 later this year . |
| 22 | A better understanding of the normal physiology , developmental anatomy , and pathology of the prepuce could prevent the removal of thousands of normal foreskins over the next 20 years . |
| 23 | However , by 1892 the immense amount of work on the structure and synthesis of organic compounds over the previous 25–30 years made a more systematic approach to naming these compounds necessary . |
| 24 | Hank Holland , president and chief executive , said the firm would continue to support its E and M mainframe series software for another seven to 10 years , but would start to reduce research and development expenditure in favour of client-server environments over the next three years . |
| 25 | Clerical Medical has designed this Plan to help you to make the most of the profit from your savings over the next 10 years . |
| 26 | The finance director , Roger Wood , said savings over the next two years were likely to total £13 million as the company took advantage of the new low-interest-rate environment . |
| 27 | Before gaining the commercial weight of the mighty Epic Records , Martyn Joseph had already established a considerable market for his songs , having recorded on independent record labels over the last six years , including his own . |
| 28 | MORE than 200 children are believed to have been sexually assaulted and beaten by staff at council homes over the past 20 years . |
| 29 | A guaranteed investment of over £14 million in their homes over the next 10 years . |
| 30 | WATER meters are to be compulsorily installed in nearly four million homes over the next 20 years , it was announced yesterday . |