Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [prep] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Western Europe it is estimated that new cars will become , on average , 2% more fuel efficient per year to 1990 , Europe 's motor manufacturers having given the commitment to governments to improve the fuel efficiency of their 1985 models by 10% over the 1978 efficiency level . |
| 2 | Quoted in an interview in Pravda , Konovalov said that his ministry was set to triple output by 2000 , adding an extra 19,600 megawatts of capacity over the next ten years . |
| 3 | In our clinic we have managed 262 pregnancies in 203 women with diabetes over the past five years , 143 of whom had non-insulin dependent diabetes . |
| 4 | Cynon Valley ) in a written reply yesterday that she has received 6,900 letters on Cambodia over the last month . |
| 5 | The Round Table , which has always worked closely with the Trust has organised thirteen clinics in Oxfordshire over the next fortnight . |
| 6 | The Blinky Bill case ( International News , 6th November 1992 ) has been settled after six months of wrangling over the interpretation of Australia 's trademark and copyright legislation . |
| 7 | The agreement , which was announced by the Department of Health , brings to an end six years of controversy over the future of the Adelaide . |
| 8 | There were 26 thefts from vehicles over the last week including the theft of a bag , cash , ring , jewellery and driving licence . |
| 9 | Gloucester thereupon went off to capture Berwick-upon-Tweed and , after thirteen changes of ownership over the centuries , made it once and for all English . |
| 10 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 11 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 12 | The government on Jan. 10 , 1990 , presented the 1990/91 budget amid concern over the growing current-account deficit and worsening international competitiveness . |
| 13 | But 18 months of argument over the treaty has left Denmark deeply divided . |
| 14 | The plan is to sell 20,000 games in Sheffield over the Christmas period that is , 1 in 20 homes . |
| 15 | A typical combination of elements might be 20 minutes of full screen , full motion video , 5000 high resolution stills , 6 hours of audio over the stills and the equivalent of about 15,000 pages of text . |
| 16 | SOMALIA : Clan warfare and anarchic violence have led to the deaths of more than 10,000 people in Somalia over the past 18 months , according to an Amnesty International report , Somalia : A Human Rights Disaster , published on 5 August . |
| 17 | A French Basque , Henri Parot , arrested at a routine roadblock outside Seville on April 2 with 300 kg of explosives in his car , admitted that he was the leader of the " itinerant commando " of the Basque separatist organization ETA which had killed at least 33 people in Spain over the past 12 years , including Gen. Victor Lago Roman in Madrid in 1982 [ see p. 32803 ] and the Madrid prosecutor Carmen Tagle on Sept. 12 , 1989 . |
| 18 | In fact it has been known since the late 1950s ( see for example Nature , vol. 208 , p 423 ) that Po is widely distributed in the environment , and in man , as a result of atmospheric fall-out of the decay products of natural radon-222 , with an abundance in northern temperate latitudes of about 0.06 curie per sq.km or of the order of 10 6 curies in total over the surface of the world land mass . |
| 19 | The results contained in the Report suggest total losses of between 0.8 and 2.0 inches per day over the surface of the canal . |
| 20 | Prime Minister Felipe González , the leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) , on April 5 won a vote of confidence in the Congress of Deputies , concluding five months of uncertainty over the exact distribution of seats in the 350-seat Congress resulting from the October general election , after which recounts and repeat elections had been necessary in a number of constituencies . |
| 21 | One area of dispute over the EFA 's development was apparently overcome , however , when the West German and UK Defence Ministers met on Jan. 22 , 1990 , and reportedly agreed to back the use of the proposed ECR-90 radar system to be developed by the British company Ferranti International , rather than the alternative West German-built MD-2000 system using technology under licence from the US company Hughes . |
| 22 | Hierarchy in a grid is most readily achieved by superimposing one set of parallels over the other . |
| 23 | SIR , — Of a total of 3715,762 infants delivered in Japan after 23 weeks of gestation over the three years 1989 to 1991 , 22,531 were stillborn . |
| 24 | A survey late last year by Mori Building , a big development company , calculated that 85m square feet ( 7.9m square metres ) of office space is scheduled to be built — in large blocks alone — in the 23 wards of Tokyo over the next five years , 87% more than was completed in the past five . |
| 25 | Dr Rhodes Boyson , Minister at the DEDNI , received 2,200 letters of protest over the proposed lignite mining . |
| 26 | Amnesty said that the torture of those detained by the army and police was a daily routine , and that it had received reports of more than 200 cases of torture over the past two years , but believed the true figure to be much higher . |
| 27 | The 14 Felixstowe club members averaged 14 oz per man over the two legs to the average of four and half oz for the six Clacton members to take the cup . |
| 28 | Ronald Venetiaan , the candidate of the coalition New Front for Democracy and Development ( NF ) , was elected President on Sept. 7 , ending four months of uncertainty over the future government of the country . |
| 29 | There was two feet of sand over the highest part of the island where the wind had carried it and all the heavy bridge-building machines were on their sides . |
| 30 | In other words , without continued energy efficiency improvements , Europe , North America , Japan and Australasia would need the equivalent of an extra 1,300 million tonnes of oil over the next 7 years . |