Example sentences of "[noun] over the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imports of passenger cars over the three months rose only two per cent by volume , whilst imports of capital goods were down six per cent . |
| 2 | The Scottish experience shows the enormous increase in the amounts owed by clients over the three years of the study . |
| 3 | It expects the 78% share of desktops currently running by MS-DOS to fall to 29% by 1997 , the Apple Macintosh to retain a 10% share over the period , Windows to rise from last year 's 7% to 28% , Unix to grow from 4% to 10% , OS/2 to rise from 1% to 8% and Windows NT to grow from nowhere to 14% over the five years . |
| 4 | In retrospect , it seems that genuine concern on the part of the experimenters was communicated to the subjects to provide a potent source of suggestion that they should suffer symptoms of paranoia and hallucinations , and a cumulative sleep loss over the six days of the experiment combined to provide a fertile ground for the production of these symptoms . |
| 5 | Investment over the 1992–1994 period at £5.4 billion is forecast to be 22 p.c. down on the 1989–91 levels after allowing for inflation and the lowest since 1984–86 but still 30 p.c. higher than the depth of recession in 1981–1983 . |
| 6 | The stock change in units over the three years : |
| 7 | At a World Bank-sponsored meeting in Paris on Oct. 27 leading developed countries and multilateral agencies approved a further $2,200 million in aid over the three years 1990-92 . |
| 8 | And in the Jar din Massey there is a museum tracing the history of the regiment of Hussars over the five centuries since its first formation in Hungary . |
| 9 | To give all subjects roughly the same earnings opportunities over the two repetitions of the experiment , we changed the parameter pairs from the first to the second repetition of follows : Each group consisted of eight subjects : so there were eight who had parameter pair A on their first repetition and parameter pair H on their second ; eight who had parameter pair B on their first repetition and parameter pair G on their second ; and so on . |
| 10 | In Western Europe it is estimated that new cars will become , on average , 2% more fuel efficient per year to 1990 , Europe 's motor manufacturers having given the commitment to governments to improve the fuel efficiency of their 1985 models by 10% over the 1978 efficiency level . |
| 11 | ‘ One was financial — loss of earnings , keeping a second home and campaigning expenses set us back a great deal over the 15 months . |
| 12 | He was the fourth of twelve speakers over the three day conference , the others being Ministers , Commissioners , Economists and Academics , and had been introduced by the Chairman as ‘ The Man at the Sharp End ’ . |
| 13 | CND claimed that sixteen air bases were affected by a co-ordinated action over the two days . |
| 14 | The Association was also concerned that its income from various sources , but in particular from Wings Appeal , should be maintained in a year when the public might feel confusion over the two appeals . |
| 15 | The rent should be based on one quarter from the 1989 payment and three quarters from 1990 but as there is no change in the rent over the two years the expense is the same . |
| 16 | The authority spent twenty thousand pounds on the eviction , half what the squatters say they 'd have paid in rent over the two years |
| 17 | The number of properties repossessed rose by 74% over the 1990 figure to 75,540 in 1991 . |
| 18 | Aboriginal subsistence whaling was allowed to continue subject to a catch limit of 141 bowheads over the three years 1992-94 ( with a maximum annual strike of 54 ) for Alaskan Eskimos , 169 gray whales per year for 1992-94 for Soviet Eskimos , and for Greenlanders 21 fin whales in 1992 and 315 minke whales over 1992-94 ( maximum 115 per year ) off west Greenland and a maximum of 12 minke whales per year for 1992-94 off east Greenland . |
| 19 | Head of Department : ‘ I 'll sound out the department on paint and the pupils on homework and think about setting more creative work over the two year ‘ A ’ Level course . ’ |
| 20 | The Authority allocated £13.75 million pounds to PNP over the four years 1985–9 . |
| 21 | We are extremely critical of the strategy outlined in draft guidance because it seeks to meet a projected near doubling in aggregates consumption over the 20 year period 1991 to 2011 . |
| 22 | We are extremely critical of the strategy outlined in draft guidance because it seeks to meet a projected near doubling in aggregates consumption over the 20 year period 1991 to 2011 . |
| 23 | The table shows the actual performance of a Clerical Medical with-profits endowment plan over the 10 years to 1991 . |
| 24 | When the draft statutes were submitted to the European Council , The Economist , in an article entitled ‘ Karl-Otto Bismarck , wrote : ‘ Mr Pöhl 's influence over the 46 pages of detailed rules is not hard to spot . ’ |
| 25 | The top earning European over the 12 months was Seve Ballesteros with $804,356 ( in 9th place on the list ) . |
| 26 | Sovereignty over the 520 sq km Patagonian plateau Laguna del Desierto region , some 3,000 km south of Buenos Aires , was to be subject to a further international arbitration process . |
| 27 | Vice-President Augustus Aikhomu on July 17 ruled out the possibility of war with Cameroon over the two neighbours ' long-running border dispute . |
| 28 | BASS , the UK 's biggest brewer and pub owner , are now well on their way to meeting the November 1992 deadline for disposing or freeing half their pubs over the 2,000 limit . |
| 29 | The caterers told me yesterday that they 've got thirty thousand people being wined and dined here in this tented village over the three days . |
| 30 | Another method is to allocate the total costs over the two years on the basis of work invoiced . |