Example sentences of "increased over the [num ord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | However , her feelings of hopelessness increased over the next 3 weeks and late one night , after she had been drinking alone , she took an overdose of the tranquillizer mixed with paracetamol and then went to bed . |
| 2 | European Commission President , Jacques Delors , has announced that the funds are to be increased over the next five years , although the regulations governing their use are to be reformed . |
| 3 | A study of Holocene sediment off the north-eastern coast of England has shown that heavy-metal pollution between 15 and 20 kilometres offshore has increased over the last 500 years . |
| 4 | The optimistic reading is that we have been successful , in that the number of men convicted of rape has increased over the last decade by 39 per cent in the case of rape , 2 per cent in the case of sexual assault , and 55 per cent in the case of incest . |
| 5 | Unlike most manufactured goods , however , the real price of most services has increased over the last few decades . |
| 6 | When you know what we should be saying to John Major and employers is that it is n't any surprise that er disablement er has increased over the last thirteen , fourteen years . |
| 7 | For wheat , er total world , world trade has increased over the last thirty years , from er , it 's there somewhere , er , from about sixty , from forty one thousand three hundred and seventy seven thousand metric tonnes to er to about eighty four thousand four hundred and four thousand metric tonnes |
| 8 | " The level of abstraction and consumption has increased over the last century by hundreds of times , and perhaps in some cases by thousands . |