Example sentences of "[noun] over the [num] 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 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 .
6 The authority spent twenty thousand pounds on the eviction , half what the squatters say they 'd have paid in rent over the two years
7 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 .
8 The Authority allocated £13.75 million pounds to PNP over the four years 1985–9 .
9 The table shows the actual performance of a Clerical Medical with-profits endowment plan over the 10 years to 1991 .
10 Another method is to allocate the total costs over the two years on the basis of work invoiced .
11 Bankers have warned of ballooning costs over the 18 years it would take to build .
12 What was the net percentage change in the goblin population over the four years ?
13 I did have three commendations over the thirty years — three ten bobs !
14 The concession will save contributor areas a total of £685m over the three years .
15 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 ) ?
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 According to Bernier , who regularly visited the fort over the six years that he spent in and around Delhi :
19 The major challenge which has faced the Teacher Placement Service over the two years has been the issue of teacher release .
20 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 .
21 Written parliamentary replies on Jan. 18 , Feb. 15 and June 28 , 1990 , stated that ( i ) net proceeds from privatization over the seven years from April 1983 amounted to some £26,000 million ; ( ii ) net proceeds from privatization in 1989-90 were most recently estimated at £4,250 million , and ( iii ) approximately 11,000,000 people owned shares .
22 This suggests that relatively more females had become either ‘ known ’ or involved in opioid use over the two years .
23 Chairman , it 's always been this Committee 's policy over the twenty years , the twenty odd years that I 've been here , back here ru runner , that erm , so far as the food side is concerned , er , we should be , our policy should be based on the information , the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth , and letting people make up their own minds .
24 In any event adjustments are required where the cumulative inflation rate over the three years is approaching or exceeds 100 per cent and the operations in the hyper-inflationary economies are material to the group .
25 But the employers persuaded them to hold off until 1966 , when they settled for a mere 5 per cent rise over the three years to 1969 .
26 The number of male suicides over the ten years was 2,073 — almost three times the total of females ( 682 ) .
27 Obesity increased equally in all groups over the 20 years or so of follow up , despite sustained medical advice but without help from a dietitian .
28 Most of the cost will at first be picked up at the federal level , but the BMFT will gradually reduce its share of financial support over the eight years .
29 Table 6.2 summarizes major evaluation projects over the five years from 1982–87 .
30 At various stages over the eleven years , statements were made promising action .
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