Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [noun] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the reduction in manufacturing jobs over the last decades in some high wage countries has forced workers to seek jobs in other less well paid and less secure sectors or , as has happened particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom , forced older workers displaced from traditional industries ( like mining and steel-making ) into permanent unemployment . |
| 2 | The reduction in training places over the last two years has also meant that firms can now pick the cream of the universities ' output . |
| 3 | This is because the change in the stock in the current quarter ( ) consists of revaluations ( which are a function of the change in asset prices over the quarter ) and new purchases which are a function of expected gains from the time of purchase rather than simply from the end of the current quarter . |
| 4 | Using transactions data for the MMI for 1986 , Swinnerton , Curcio and Bennett ( 1988 ) found that the change in futures prices over the last five minutes had some predictive power for the change in the index over the next five minutes . |
| 5 | A glimpse off how these ‘ compensation effects ’ could work their way through the economy is given in another study , also by the Warwick institute , on the change in employment patterns over the next 10 years . |
| 6 | One cause of friction was the discontent of BIA officers over the failure to implement promises of independence made publicly by General Iida of the Japanese army when the BIA first entered Tavoy in the south . |
| 7 | The Johnston and McClelland model therefore predicts that the advantage of word targets over letter targets will be the same with a backward mask which is a word , as with as backward mask consisting of a random sequence of letters . |
| 8 | Shamir made his call in the light of Cabinet disagreements over a Police Ministry proposal to prevent all unmarried Palestinian men under the age of 30 from entering Israel . |
| 9 | What comes through the screen is the sheer sense of enjoyment of the game and that is why more than 10 million people have watched the programme on Tuesday nights over the past 26 weeks . |
| 10 | However , the talks were reported to have centred on the issue of water rights over the Jordan and Yarmouk rivers . |
| 11 | The second aspect is the relative stability in the proportion of transport workers over the two decades , despite , as we know from Figure 3.1 , the job losses that have occurred in the transport service industries since the 1960s . |
| 12 | This , together with the fall in house prices over the last three years , means that mortgage affordability should fall to a 20 year-low . |
| 13 | This type of generalization requires the comparison of maps showing the two spatial patterns of elevation of the terrain above sea-level and the distribution of pine trees over that same terrain . |
| 14 | Monitoring is necessary in order to limit the tendency of team members to ‘ shirk ’ , that is , to increase leisure and reduce effort ‘ on the job ’ ( they explain the existence of the firm by reference to the superiority of internal monitoring through observation of the behaviour of team members over monitoring of teams by market competition ) . |
| 15 | In the UK at present , the public sector is in substantial budget surplus , ( ie the excess of tax receipts over government spending ) . |
| 16 | Yellowfin became elusive after the El Nino current change affected the availability of food supplies over the last two decades . |
| 17 | I should tell you that er , the budget really represents er , an increase in the availability of police resources over the previous years . |
| 18 | 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 " . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | To expand the discussion to cover the changes in water properties over the entire water column , we have made comparisons with previous data sets . |
| 22 | A further problem with this aspect of the analysis is the changes in exchange rates over the period of the study . |
| 23 | And the tally of crown successes over its opponents far outnumbers its few failures ; Douglases , Crichtons , Livingstones , Erskines , Gordons , Hamiltons and many other members of aristocratic families who lost out to the crown over a huge range of disputes , from the heights of violent conflict to the crown 's ability to beat off rival claimants to lands , would have been astonished by the belief of later historians that they were more powerful than the monarchy . |
| 24 | The demand for money is also influenced by expectations of price changes and the levels of interest rates over the longer term . |
| 25 | LANGLEY manager Vic Hillier is to resign at the end of the season amid question marks over the club 's future . |
| 26 | They arise from a consciousness of the development of a stable ( but variable ) vernacular norm in London , knowledge that its norms differ from those of other varieties , and a belief in the superiority of London norms over those of other regions . |
| 27 | ( 1983 ) have argued that maps based on the European Air Chemistry Network may be misleading in several respects , such as in failing adequately to show the pattern of time variations over the years or the large degree of uncertainty attaching to individual contours , and assuming a geographical homogeneity which is not borne out by detailed calculations with data taken from adjacent sites . |
| 28 | Although a fully national market for grain hardly existed in the eighteenth century , a widespread trade was being operated as increasing urbanisation extended the demand for food supplies over greater distances . |
| 29 | While the reforms of 1988/89 do go some way towards creating a more effective regional policy in that the dispersion of funds has shifted towards the poorer regions , given the gulf between the rhetoric of the commitment to balanced development and the extent of subsequent policy action , it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the issue of space and the impact of EC policies over space are but a minimal consideration in the design of a greater vision . |
| 30 | In deciding whether an applicant passes the general fitness tests , the LA will take account of any convictions concerning the operation of goods vehicles over the previous five years . |