Example sentences of "[pron] over the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's been lucky of course , in that respect , in that he has had something to occupy himself over the last few months as far as the Gulf war is concerned , and in that respect , of course , I think I do n't I think it would be very difficult to fault him . |
| 2 | He planned to take care of her himself over the next five days , he told her . |
| 3 | The ‘ ship ’ is therefore dwarfed by the size of the ocean which is post-school education and training ; moreover it is an ocean which over the last ten or so years has been in unprecedented turmoil culminating in the hurricane represented by the 1988 Education Reform Act . |
| 4 | Sport & Recreation is a very small part of a huge leisure industry which over the last 20 years has seen a massive increase in both the provision of Local Authority facilities and in participation levels . |
| 5 | While the most prominent member of the VSC , Tariq Ali , was soon to become a member of a smaller , and less durable , International Marxist Group , it was the IS which did much of the groundwork , and which over the next five years was to reap most of the recruits . |
| 6 | It has particular significance for those churches who over the last decade , aided by the enthusiasm which stemmed from the Archbishop of Canterbury 's report ‘ Faith in the City ’ ( December , 1985 ) and the subsequently established Church Urban Fund , have tried to put their buildings , their membership and above all their local networks at the service of the wider community . |
| 7 | My main opposition in the final was Phil Brown from Birmingham , already an established international and the man who over the next decade or so was to be a team-mate of mine and to be the British anchorman in some very fine 4 × 400 metres relay performances . |
| 8 | I was just building up my first business then , and a thing like that is a bit like riding a roller-coaster — you need all the speed you can collect on the downhill runs to take you over the next hump . |
| 9 | I had it on my schedule to see quite a lot of you over the next few weeks , Folly . |
| 10 | The opportunity to serve you and to meet you over the next twelve months I look forward to enormously and while I 'm not conceited enough to think that I can move mountains in the year ahead , or naive enough to think that I can please everybody fully , fellow Tablers I promise you I will not let you down . |
| 11 | I will probably contact many of you over the next few months to try to establish the working conditions in various areas and develop future strategies accordingly . |
| 12 | I shall quite enjoy taming you over the next couple of weeks . ’ |
| 13 | He welcomed a recent Government announcement that an extra £25 million would be made available to help his organisation to restructure itself over the next three years . |
| 14 | In the town itself over the next few years Class meetings were formed in West Street , Corcrain , Edenderry , Levaghery , Lisniskey and Kernan . |
| 15 | Heads of department from the Soviet trade union centre , the AUCCTU , are expected to visit Congress House in the New Year on a fact-finding mission , and there have been requests for training links to be built between the TUC and the Hungarian trade union body , SZOT , which has been attempting to restructure itself over the last two years . |
| 16 | In between these two new efforts sits Filip 's Advanced Workstations & Systems which has , he notes , taken unto itself over the last year all the ingredients needed to be a stand-alone company bar a dedicated sales force . |
| 17 | ONE OVER THE EIGHTH |
| 18 | That way , we might be able to achieve something over the next couple of days . ’ |
| 19 | Both of those figures , sir , exclude any windfalls whatsoever over the next thirteen years , now if that is a justification for a new settlement , I 'm a disbeliever . |
| 20 | There were always hundreds of students asking their foreign teachers for this ‘ favour ’ to get them over the first hurdle of the going abroad process . |
| 21 | This is an extra allowance , worth £1,720 a year at current rates , specially given to widows to assist them over the first difficult period . |
| 22 | Do n't miss them over the next few months — in fact , you can ensure that you get them , and get a free thermometer , by filling in the form on page 23 . |
| 23 | Erm when you see erm Alan John erm if you see them over the next day or two if I can just give you this er these , these little leaflets |
| 24 | How much business have you done with them over the last year ? |
| 25 | I have you and all at your magazine to thank for your support , but listening to the troubles of fishkeepers on the telephone and when meeting them over the last twelve months I am left in no doubt that there is a vast array of undetectable contaminants in our tapwater , apart from just chlorine , which consistently depress fish condition and render them less able to resist stress and infection . |
| 26 | But on the other hand I 'm pleased the reasons they 've given for the delay are the points we 've been raising with them over the last two years . |
| 27 | ‘ We get a lot of donations from relatives and friends of people we have nursed here and we have kept a record of them over the last few years , ’ said Mrs Deidre Shaw , administrator for the appeal . |
| 28 | And they will achieve nothing over the next 20 years . ’ |
| 29 | If anyone is going to break it they are going to have to be better than me over the first fifty metres , so it 's going to be difficult . |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps it will help me over the next thirty , ’ he added as an afterthought . |