Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [noun pl] over the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The October 1990 rate cut was anticipated for some time in advance by the gilt market which bought gilts and drove up gilt prices ( see Fig. 17.3 ) , as was the continued fall in base rates over the next two years .
2 The scheme , forbiddingly called a fixed assured note , will take a minimum £5,000 and guarantees to provide people with the full increase in share prices over the next five years as measured by the FTSE100 index .
3 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 .
4 Both authorities will need to invest substantially in information systems over the next decade if they are to maximize the amount of care they can squeeze out of their constrained budgets .
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 The reduction in training places over the last two years has also meant that firms can now pick the cream of the universities ' output .
7 The main contributory factor here is the greater decline among older women than older men in mortality rates over the last forty years or so , with cancer and circulatory diseases now being the main causes of the higher mortality rate among men ( Ermisch , 1983 , 1990 ) .
8 This , together with the fall in house prices over the last three years , means that mortgage affordability should fall to a 20 year-low .
9 While prices were forcast to fall by about 10 per cent on average next year , a slow decline in interest rates over the next 12 months was seen as prompting a resurgence the following spring .
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