Example sentences of "[noun] over the [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scottish experience shows the enormous increase in the amounts owed by clients over the three years of the study . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The stock change in units over the three years : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Bankers retaliate by pointing out that accountants ' advice is invariably based on historic record rather than future possibility , and that it is impossible for them to give impartial advice if they have been auditing their clients ' books over the past years . |
| 6 | The intention here is not to construct a full history of the post-war period but it will be necessary to examine some of the main developments in the class/collectivity/political force relationships over the post-war years , even at a cost of some over-simplification , in order to establish a basis for the fuller discussion in the following chapter of these relationships under the Thatcher government . |
| 7 | Research over the past years has begun to answer lots of questions , but much still remains to be sorted out . |
| 8 | This survey , as so often happens , led from one thing to another , and I became interested in vernacular architecture and the people of the area , particularly in their work and homes over the changing years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The authority spent twenty thousand pounds on the eviction , half what the squatters say they 'd have paid in rent over the two years |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | presented ( retiring Teachers ' Representative ) with a beautiful bowl of plants on behalf of all the teachers and thanked for her work over the past years . |
| 13 | The Authority allocated £13.75 million pounds to PNP over the four years 1985–9 . |
| 14 | The table shows the actual performance of a Clerical Medical with-profits endowment plan over the 10 years to 1991 . |
| 15 | Another method is to allocate the total costs over the two years on the basis of work invoiced . |
| 16 | Bankers have warned of ballooning costs over the 18 years it would take to build . |
| 17 | What was the net percentage change in the goblin population over the four years ? |
| 18 | I did have three commendations over the thirty years — three ten bobs ! |
| 19 | The Chinese attack on Vietnam in March 1979 gave the USSR the leverage to activate this agreement ; a gradual extension of Soviet facilities in Cam Ranh Bay took place over the following years . |
| 20 | The concession will save contributor areas a total of £685m over the three years . |
| 21 | But I would not be true to myself if I did not record my own thanks to all who serve on the Board for their hard and devoted work and at this time , to take a moment to thank the retiring vice convenor Bill for his work , his prayers , his support , his wisdom and his fellowship over the many years that he and I have served together . |
| 22 | I should tell you that er , the budget really represents er , an increase in the availability of police resources over the previous years . |
| 23 | Is not the right hon. Gentleman 's attitude to this judgment typical of the decline in standards of political integrity over the 11 years of the regime of the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) ? |
| 24 | Scharli et al noted a 23% rise in the use of barium meal examinations over the 55 years of their study , while Breaux et al reported a 34% increase in the use of imaging techniques between 1980 and 1984 , largely attributable to the use of ultrasound . |
| 25 | In contrast , the Districts of Warwickshire experienced very little actual change in their assessed expenditure needs per head over the three years , with relatively small increases and decreases , although their ranking alters dramatically . |
| 26 | According to Bernier , who regularly visited the fort over the six years that he spent in and around Delhi : |
| 27 | The major challenge which has faced the Teacher Placement Service over the two years has been the issue of teacher release . |
| 28 | Sunbeds have received a lot of bad publicity over the last years . |
| 29 | MASSIVE overseas contracts , particularly in the Far East , will help underpin growth at North West Water over the coming years , the group said today . |
| 30 | Table 2.2 demonstrates changes over the seventeen years to 1987 : western Europe took over half our exports for the first time in recent history ; by 1987 , the EC alone took virtually half , and most other destinations , except for North America , had declined in relative importance . |