Example sentences of "[noun pl] over the [adj] three years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Expansion of Career Development Loans to provide 60,000 more opportunities over the next three years |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The initiative has been allocated £150,000 from ESRC funds over the next three years . |
| 5 | The new scheme , which , it is hoped , will introduce tennis to some 20,000 youngsters over the next three years , has been masterminded by former British Women 's Team manager , Sue Mappin , most recently remembered for her success in staging the 1991 Federation Cup tournament in Nottingham . |
| 6 | Yesterday Mr Mandela began a three-day tour of the Natal Midlands , cockpit of the virtual civil war between the ANC and Inkatha which has claimed thousands of lives over the last three years . |
| 7 | This study is concerned with identifying how far the inflation adjusted accounts which have been produced by large quoted companies over the past three years have economic consequences . |
| 8 | It will open a further 20 sites over the next three years , Acer says . |
| 9 | The organization has participated in the major mass protests over the last three years and has donated food , clothing and time to supporting strikers , political prisoners and other popular causes . |
| 10 | The agreement , which provided for soft loans or mixed credits over the next three years , was made on more generous terms than the £300,000,000 soft loan package extended in 1986 [ see p. 34675 ] . |
| 11 | Though they admitted a whole series of assaults over the previous three years , they disputed their frequency , he said in his closing speech . |
| 12 | CIC is budgeting to sell 100 machines over the next three years . |
| 13 | In a statement Mr Brown the recessions in North America and the United Kingdom had adversely affected Thomson 's businesses over the past three years , particularly newspaper publishing . |
| 14 | The actions we have taken with our poor performing businesses over the last three years have protected the company in a difficult economic climate . |
| 15 | We have been involved at Ithusheng as consultants over the last three years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Three RYA teaching videos , produced at our centres over the last three years , are now standard teaching texts used in a number of countries . |
| 18 | The General , half the beast it used to be and back in the red at the mid-point of 1992 , will be lucky to break even this year , despite vast attempts over the last three years to clear the decks and keep a tight ship . |
| 19 | In the meantime the Government plans to spend £6.3 billion on roads over the next three years , with 40 new schemes starting next year . |
| 20 | If Mr Rocard runs into new difficulties , he can always push important bills through with the swift and effective parliamentary guillotine — an arguably undemocratic device he has already used 11 times over the past three years . |
| 21 | Despite increased teaching loads over the past three years , the School , as a whole , has very substantially increased its research funding and its research output , over the 3–4 year period of assessment . |
| 22 | The Group says the results are due to better business strategies over the last three years , new models , better use of plant and good labour relations . |
| 23 | By spreading his proposals over the next three years Norman Lamont sent out the message that he was looking ahead and planning for the future , said Mr Wellerd . |
| 24 | Paragraph three , the action plan , er well it will guide itself evidence this , the statements made under the action plan , from section three of the report will guide our activities over the next three years and of course paragraph four performance the critical success factors , by the seven criteria we will be judged in the highway service and each one is a challenge in its own right and I do hope to receive in order to carry out these er , these er promises in fact , that erm , I 'd be given the relevant level of financial staff and resources |
| 25 | The company announced they had secured a Ministry of Defence contract to deliver nearly 2,000 diesel engined Luton built Novas and almost 800 Ellesmere Port-built diesel 1.7 Astra Estates over the next three years . |
| 26 | This , together with the fall in house prices over the last three years , means that mortgage affordability should fall to a 20 year-low . |
| 27 | The rest took early retirement at different points over the following three years . |
| 28 | Before any sale , the Department of Energy would want to remove any loss-making capacity , but all parties were shocked by a government-commissioned report from merchant bank NM Rothschild , which was widely leaked , forecasting that the industry could be reduced to 12 deep pits over the next three years . |
| 29 | The EPA plans to spend almost one million dollars over the next three years , looking for organisms that can use the chlorinated aromatics as their sources of carbon . |
| 30 | Norway has announced that it intends to catch 382 minke whales over the next three years . |