Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] over the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MINISTERS are bracing themselves for the release of unemployment figures on Thursday which are expected to go over the three million mark . |
| 2 | The number of cars on our roads is expected to double over the next thirty years . |
| 3 | At present , about one in five children is in full-time higher education and this number is expected to double over the next 25 years . |
| 4 | Lastly , the number of potential first-time buyers in their 20s was set to fall over the next two decades , reducing demand for homes . |
| 5 | For instance there is electronic software distribution , an area that Legent reckons is set to explode over the next five years . |
| 6 | Many of your values , ideas and attitudes are set to change over the next twelve months . |
| 7 | Jeffrey : I think that lesbians and gay men have been very creative in the sort of relationships they have tried to develop over the last fifteen years — because it 's very easy simply to copy the models which we are presented with . |
| 8 | British television was created with this idea in its heart , and has continued to develop over the last fifty years with these ideals firmly at the forefront . |
| 9 | The pace of investment is planned to increase over the next five years with over £50 million of expenditure planned in new and improved port facilities and associated infrastructure . |
| 10 | Several more products are planned to follow over the next 18 months , including software engineering tools . |
| 11 | Several more products are planned to follow over the next 18 months , including software engineering tools , ( CI No 1,846 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Our urgent need is for a bowler , and that 's why we 've failed to knock over the final three wickets in an innings on five occasions this season . |
| 13 | But among the more lowly paid members of staff there was a feeling that the sacrifices that they had been urged to make over the previous twelve months — the constraints and pay-freezes and appeals to their better nature — had not been matched by a tempering of Branson 's acquisitive spirit . |