Example sentences of "[noun] over the [num ord] 20 " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fast-swimming Dall 's porpoise has been particularly hard hit in the North Pacific and hundreds of thousands of animals over the last 20 years have been entangled in the giant drift-nets of the salmon , squid , and tuna fisheries . |
| 2 | A better understanding of the normal physiology , developmental anatomy , and pathology of the prepuce could prevent the removal of thousands of normal foreskins over the next 20 years . |
| 3 | The hearings system is claimed to have turned thousands of youngsters away from a life of crime over the last 20 years , but because of the confidential nature of the work done by reporters and panel members , much of the evidence is anecdotal . |
| 4 | WATER meters are to be compulsorily installed in nearly four million homes over the next 20 years , it was announced yesterday . |
| 5 | One of the most significant developments in the provision of legal advice and assistance over the last 20 years has been the emergence of law centres . |
| 6 | The rise in the quality of French tennis over the last 20 years , culminating in the emergence of players such as Yannick Noah , Henri Leconte and now Guy Forget , coupled with the transformation of the French Open at Roland Garros into what the majority of players regard as the best organised of the four Grand Slams ( even though Wimbledon remains favourite as to the one they most want to win ) are due very largely to the leadership he has shown . |
| 7 | There have been many advances over the last 20 years , particularly in the subjects of settlement , technology and social and economic organisation . |
| 8 | Discuss the disadvantages of using these figures to help determine the provision of old people 's facilities in your local community over the next 20 years . |
| 9 | Pollution from car exhausts may explain the rise in allergic conditions such as hayfever over the last 20 years , according to Professor Robert Davies of Bartholemew 's Hospital , London . |
| 10 | An increasing share of overseas earnings over the last 20 years has come from the sale of the dwindling assets of oil and natural gas . |
| 11 | A Labour Government will seek to double the numbers of those benefiting from higher education over the next 20 years . |
| 12 | The major development over the next 20 years will be the 90% growth in gas consumption and the 80% rise in gas production . |
| 13 | Despite gloomy predictions over the next 20 years , including forecasts that only one ‘ quality ’ daily would survive , with one middle-range paper ( the Express , for example ) and one tabloid , only two other established papers died . |
| 14 | And even cricket has also undergone some radical changes over the last 20 years . |
| 15 | Someone needs to take a long hard look at what has happened to tennis in Ulster over the last 20 years . |
| 16 | Mr Plowden added : ‘ Last year 's forecasts of a 66 per cent rise in demand over the next 20 years brought home the enormity of the environmental threat posed by current minerals policy . ’ |
| 17 | Cargo forecasts suggest that a growth rate of 11.4 percent for Europe-Far East trade over the next 20 years will be more than double the expected increase across the North Atlantic . |
| 18 | A comparison of birth rates over the last 20 years also shows a there are fewer regional variations . |
| 19 | Expressing his pleasure at working with TAG , said , ‘ My experience over the last 20 years has given me the scientific and technical background which the modern catering industry requires . |
| 20 | The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales has told the Welsh Office that its plan to meet a near doubling of demand for aggregates over the next 20 years , will cause irrevocable harm to many areas of Wales ( 1 ) . |
| 21 | THE UNITED STATES ' navy is under heavy fire for its plan to dispose of 100 or more of its old nuclear submarines off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts over the next 20 or so years . |
| 22 | The shipments , which are expected to transport up to 30 tonnes of plutonium from Cap La Hague and Sellafield ( UK ) to Japan over the next 20 years , have aroused international protest . |
| 23 | For example the Review of Railway Finances chaired by Sir David Serpell was given the following terms of reference ‘ to examine the finances of the railway and associated operations , in the light of all relevant considerations , and to report on options for alternative policies , and their related objectives , designed to secure improved financial results in an efficiently run railway in Great Britain over the next 20 years ’ . |
| 24 | Although some of these artists were ostensibly chosen because they ‘ represent and unprecedented artistic engagement with sexuality ’ , I suspect that anyone vaguely aware of the extensive debate led by feminist critics over the last 20 years will find nothing new with these male artists who are still ( and sometimes , literally ) stuck in a rut with their same old penis/penetration/ejaculation ( even if it is into a barrel ) view of sexuality . |
| 25 | The Medical Manpower Standing Advisory Committee needs to think much more widely and commission more extensive analyses before committing the nation to the huge costs of paying for extra doctors over the next 20 years . |
| 26 | It is hard not to wonder when , in ignoring the best writing for children , they are denying the existence of the multicultural and non-sexist fiction which has reflected the changes in society over the last 20 years . ’ |
| 27 | The Financial Times of Feb. 6 , 1991 , reported that the government was to increase exports of natural gas by a further 200,000 million cubic metres over the next 20 years . |
| 28 | The director of the project , which employed 60 people near the Cornish town of Penryn , had claimed that " hot rock " energy could provide power to meet all the south-west 's requirements over the next 20 years . |
| 29 | Last summer Atlanta proposed taking twice as much — up to 529m gallons a day — from the Chattahoochee and Lake Sidney Lanier to quench suburban growth over the next 20 years . |
| 30 | ICI and GEC , two of Britain 's largest and best-known companies , have each reported total retained profits of about £4,500m over the last 20 years . |