Example sentences of "the number of [noun] over the " in BNC.
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1 | As to the enforcement of lorry weights , we have doubled the number of inspections over the past five years . |
2 | I hope to gradually increase the number of pages over the next few issues , if funds allow . |
3 | However , since there are more rape trials today than before , the reader of newspapers would find an increase in the number of reports over the years . |
4 | By July , the committee reported that in spite of an increase in the number of members over the last quarter , there had been a loss of trade and a decline in share capital . |
5 | The Worldwide Fund for Nature is , of course , just one part of a huge international Green Movement , in which we have seen massive increases in the number of supporters over the past few years . |
6 | And the numbers of elderly people are on a steep increase : the number of people over the age of 85 will double to one million by the year 2000 . |
7 | Though the number of people over the age of 65 is predicted not to increase over the next 10 years and to rise slowly thereafter , the profile of this group will change considerably . |
8 | Er , six bytes across the number of characters over the four characters . |