Example sentences of "[noun] over the [num] [noun pl] " 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 | The stock change in units over the three years : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ One was financial — loss of earnings , keeping a second home and campaigning expenses set us back a great deal over the 15 months . |
| 10 | CND claimed that sixteen air bases were affected by a co-ordinated action over the two days . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The authority spent twenty thousand pounds on the eviction , half what the squatters say they 'd have paid in rent over the two years |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Authority allocated £13.75 million pounds to PNP over the four years 1985–9 . |
| 16 | The table shows the actual performance of a Clerical Medical with-profits endowment plan over the 10 years to 1991 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | The top earning European over the 12 months was Seve Ballesteros with $804,356 ( in 9th place on the list ) . |
| 19 | Vice-President Augustus Aikhomu on July 17 ruled out the possibility of war with Cameroon over the two neighbours ' long-running border dispute . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Another method is to allocate the total costs over the two years on the basis of work invoiced . |
| 22 | Bankers have warned of ballooning costs over the 18 years it would take to build . |
| 23 | Thus , assuming all goes well in this weekend 's national league games , Scotland will have used a mere 16 players during the course of the campaign , Peter Wright 's introduction for the injured Alan Watt proving the only alteration over the four games . |
| 24 | In fact I happened just to have spent the weekend with a dear friend and was well aware that at some point over the two days she had entertained everyone suspected of being concerned , and not a word of politics was discussed , nor a syllable about supplanting anybody . |
| 25 | What was the net percentage change in the goblin population over the four years ? |
| 26 | I did have three commendations over the thirty years — three ten bobs ! |
| 27 | Machines using the 80486SX accounted for 26% of the total , and saw dramatic price reductions over the 12 months — 60.3% in France to $2,446 , 67.8% in Germany to $2,567 , and 49.2% here in the UK to $2,421 . |
| 28 | A number of important changes took place over the 18 months . |
| 29 | Major shifts in population distribution have taken place over the two decades since the 1960s , despite the fact that the national population size is , by the 1980s , almost static . |
| 30 | The second aspect is the relative stability in the proportion of transport workers over the two decades , despite , as we know from Figure 3.1 , the job losses that have occurred in the transport service industries since the 1960s . |