Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun] over the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Human Development Report 1992 released by the UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) on April 23 showed that the doubling of income disparities over the last 30 years had enabled " the richest 20 per cent of the world 's people [ to become ] … at least 150 times more than the poorest 20 per cent " . |
| 2 | Given the close relationship between three month interbank rates and base rates , this provides a good guide to the money market 's expectation of the path of base rates over the next twelve months . |
| 3 | The improvement in the speed and comfort of coach travel over the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was very striking , although overshadowed by the even more dramatic later impact of the railways . |
| 4 | I am pleased to report further extensions of home care over the last year to meet the growing needs in Glasgow and also to cover a greater area of the South Coast and the East Midlands . |
| 5 | The House has been rightly concerned at the creeping extension of Community competence over the last few years . |
| 6 | The credentials of team B over the last two General Elections have been so patently hopeless that the floating voter has very rightly not applied the principle . |
| 7 | They will be self-financing , since we aim to raise 20 billion by way of pollution taxes over the first five year of Government . |
| 8 | A comparison of birth rates over the last 20 years also shows a there are fewer regional variations . |
| 9 | Surely that has been one of the major changes of Government policy over the last few years . |
| 10 | THE National Health Service will be permanently transformed as a result of the Conservative victory , with fund-holding family doctors and self-governing hospitals becoming the more usual form of organisation of health care over the next five years . |
| 11 | Yellowfin became elusive after the El Nino current change affected the availability of food supplies over the last two decades . |
| 12 | The narrowing of differences is revealed most obviously in a comparison of unemployment rates over the last decade . |
| 13 | A review of the Garden 's options for the use of information technology over the next five years was carried out and made available for staff comments . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This national dairy breed was formed during the 1960s by the amalgamation of several red or red-and-white types after a gradual series of breed absorptions over the last 40 or 50 years . |
| 17 | The most striking aspect of prison reform over the last two centuries is how little of it there has been . |
| 18 | There will be a reduction in the rate of technology change over the next few years to reflect the reality of the market ’ . |