Example sentences of "[noun] over the previous [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Mr Shawcross , chairman of the examination board of the NUT , offered a similar contribution : he spoke of the " revolutionary change " in the teaching of English in elementary schools over the previous ten years , and he went on ( in the words of the bulletin report ) to give " his experience of Manchester children under the old system " : |
| 2 | The consequence of the Knoyles ' poverty and the Hutchings ' absenteeism over the previous two centuries was that the Manor House had a miraculous escape from Georgian owners wanting to keep up with the times . |
| 3 | The fact that France had already received the lion 's share of new European component investment over the previous five years was beside the point . |
| 4 | In fact , there are now more companies with no plans for future investment ( 52 companies ) than companies that had not made any investment over the previous three years ( 43 ) . |
| 5 | Using data supplied by local police forces and government ministries , the report stated that ( i ) 4,611 children and adolescents had died from violence over the previous three years , more than 50 per cent of them shot and the rest killed by stabbing , beating , poisoning or strangling ; ( ii ) young girls were raped and many had died from clandestine abortions after becoming prostitutes ; ( iii ) children were exploited from the age of three by professional beggars , from the age of six by drug traffickers and , if they survived , ended up in armed groups used by criminal gangs and even the police ; ( iv ) the abuse of drugs and solvents was common among street children ; ( v ) an estimated 3,000 children were illegally adopted annually by foreigners , 50 per cent going to Italy and 30 per cent to France , who paid up to US$20,000 for a white child ; and ( vi ) 25,000,000 out of 45,000,000 children were chronically underfed , 30 per cent lived in poverty and 10,000 were child workers . |
| 6 | However , by 1892 the immense amount of work on the structure and synthesis of organic compounds over the previous 25–30 years made a more systematic approach to naming these compounds necessary . |
| 7 | Does not that answer confirm that the increase in crime in the past 12 years has been greater both in proportion and in number than the increase in crime over the previous 12 centuries ? |
| 8 | Although tax consultancy fee income rose by 3% to £105m , this compares with a total increase of 134% over the previous three years . |
| 9 | Instead of a simple wind diagram , he had ‘ back-projections ’ of the actual path of the rain-bearing wind over the previous 48 hours . |
| 10 | Iraqi government sources claimed on July 16 that 1,200 Arab citizens had been deported from Kuwait over the previous 24 hours [ see pp. 38118 ; 38166 ; 38309 ] . |
| 11 | The FPR called for the overthrow of the regime and the return of all Rwandan refugees ( mostly Tutsi who had been forced to flee to neighbouring countries after ethnic clashes with the dominant Hutu over the previous 30 years ) . |
| 12 | The UDA had been blamed for about one-third of the killings of civilians in Northern Ireland over the previous 23 years ( more than 2,000 civilians having been killed during this period ) . |
| 13 | In evidence to the Environment Committee in 1986 the following report was given on the record of the Church Commissioners over the previous seventeen years , during which the future of 1,053 redundant churches was decided . |
| 14 | Such a political and economic environment had enabled the USA to increase its productive capacity over the previous hundred and fifty years to become the world 's greatest economic power . |
| 15 | The principal feature of population redistribution revealed by the 1980/81 round of Censuses in advanced Western countries was a massive shift from the larger cities to smaller settlements and remoter rural areas over the previous ten years . |
| 16 | However , there had been some deterioration in her mood over the previous 2 days . |
| 17 | Parker , after all , had been a key figure in helping Forest reach four Wembley finals over the previous three seasons . |
| 18 | Although he refused to speak against Gates , who had supported his election , Bush announced that Attorney General Thornburgh had begun a national review of the 15,000 complaints made to the federal government concerning acts of police brutality over the previous six years . |
| 19 | Black ( 1982 ) related changes in net fixed investment to changes in GDP over the previous three years . |
| 20 | Though they admitted a whole series of assaults over the previous three years , they disputed their frequency , he said in his closing speech . |
| 21 | Their long folk memories recalled other attempts to produce native silk over the previous hundred years — and how all of them had failed . |
| 22 | IBM Personal Systems Business Unit Europe/Middle East/Africa says it had record volume of sales in the first quarter of this year , and points to Dataquest figures suggesting that it outshipped its nearest competitor by 66% during the last quarter of 1992 and the first quarter of 1993 — gaining 4% in market share over the previous six months ; the company also said it reorganised its manufacturing and distribution operations at its Greenock , Scotland , plant , cutting distribution costs for its ValuePoint and ThinkPad brands by more than 65% , cutting its inventory by 17% since the end of 1992 ; this magnitude of savings will also be realised for the PS/2 and PS/1 lines this year . |
| 23 | He spoke on the transformation of literary criticism over the previous thirty years and , no doubt with the memory of John Peter 's interpretation of The Waste Land in mind , warned against too much psychological or biographical conjecture in the explication of poetry . |
| 24 | Scottish manufacturing and construction companies showed a 2.3 per cent increase in the fourth quarter over the previous three months , according to provisional Government output figures excluding oil and gas . |
| 25 | The rest of the report , which was the role of section conferences and industrial conferences , which have been the subject of fairly detailed consultations throughout regions over the previous two years and appeared to be widely accepted was hardly debated at all . |
| 26 | However , the figures of 2,561 drivers humiliated for a 3.2 per cent return were only the average over the previous three years in Nottingham . |
| 27 | In 1988 it was calculated that over £16 billion had been spent by the Authority over the previous 30 years , about half provided by the Department of Energy or its predecessors . |
| 28 | It was characterized by a commitment to the policies of his predecessor , Tun Daim Zainuddin , who for seven years had kept the country on a course of fast economic growth ( with an average annual rate over the previous five years of 8.3 per cent ) , despite the threat of inflation , estimated to be over 5 per cent , and a worsening current-account balance . |
| 29 | ( i ) Reselection is every five years for a further five year period : ( a ) If panel members are with the same firm they would be expected to supply details of relevant experience over the previous five years , and to have attended a number of updating courses , accumulating at least 20 continuing education points ( or hours ) from courses related to personal injury work . |
| 30 | This has the advantage over the previous two strategies of allowing people to leave relatively undistorted their awareness of the complexity of the situation and of their own fallibility , but at the expense of construing themselves as partially or completely powerless . |