Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] over the " in BNC.

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1 An issue for research libraries over the next few years is to seize the opportunity offered by technology for enrichment of OPACs as electronic access tools .
2 The abolition of tax concessions for home owners over the next two years , along with continued falls in house prices , will trigger a stampede to rent , it says .
3 The Human Development Report 1992 released by the UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) on April 23 showed that the doubling of income disparities over the last 30 years had enabled " the richest 20 per cent of the world 's people [ to become ] … at least 150 times more than the poorest 20 per cent " .
4 Given the close relationship between three month interbank rates and base rates , this provides a good guide to the money market 's expectation of the path of base rates over the next twelve months .
5 Given the halving of living standards over the past year , this was an even more remarkable result .
6 LANGLEY manager Vic Hillier is to resign at the end of the season amid question marks over the club 's future .
7 Fighting in the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan has intensified meanwhile in the run-up to the latest round of peace talks over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh .
8 We have announced a number of job losses over the past 12 months which have arisen as a result of er an internal cost cutting exercise to make our research more er cost effective , and also as a result of decisions by the Government and the electricity supply industry who have cut down their funding for basic research into reactor technology .
9 The article was a review of process developments over the years and the way changing technology has impacted on fuel design .
10 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 .
11 And the local MP , Bob Litherland , revealed that he had warned the Home Office of security worries over the building .
12 Without doubt , the most important use of tax havens over the past 10 years has been to save ( or defer ) capital gains tax .
13 One of the main reasons for the poverty trap is the decline of tax thresholds over the years , as well as the relatively heavy rates of direct taxation on low incomes .
14 There have been a number of business failures over the past , very difficult , few months , but I hasten to add that the level of new business start-ups remains resilient and robust .
15 LIVERPOOL has had more than its share of pop stars over the years .
16 They will be self-financing , since we aim to raise 20 billion by way of pollution taxes over the first five year of Government .
17 Based on this information , meteorological and atmospheric dispersion models are employed to predict the spatial distribution of pollution concentrations over the area .
18 They have grown in importance in recent years as a way of financing trade , and in particular of tiding firms over the period from when they have to buy inputs to when they are able to sell the finished output .
19 to assess the degree of convergence or divergence of input provision between and within classes of education authorities over the period 1975-84 ;
20 But because I was in like really really tight tights , er like and then a pair of ski pants over the top er , my whole leg was like , you know , sort of soaked in and this bloke was there going , hee , that 's pretty impressive and I was like , I 'm not going to let him know I was crying and like got up and went to the top of the slope and I carried on skiing for about an extra half an hour , but like when I got home , and I just took off , my whole leg started , feet swelling as I took the like , the tight like leggings off .
21 However , the talks were reported to have centred on the issue of water rights over the Jordan and Yarmouk rivers .
22 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 .
23 A comparison of birth rates over the last 20 years also shows a there are fewer regional variations .
24 The decree specified the precedence of government bodies over the parallel system of CPSU administrative bodies .
25 ‘ We saw 16 companies in a series of half-hour meetings over the two days , ’ says FFB 's European director , Roy Edleston .
26 Yellowfin became elusive after the El Nino current change affected the availability of food supplies over the last two decades .
27 The narrowing of differences is revealed most obviously in a comparison of unemployment rates over the last decade .
28 One cause of friction was the discontent of BIA officers over the failure to implement promises of independence made publicly by General Iida of the Japanese army when the BIA first entered Tavoy in the south .
29 THE vast majority of workers continue to receive pay rises above the inflation rate , despite a doubling in the number of pay freezes over the past year , according to a study published today , writes Keith Aitken .
30 In a report to the schools subcommittee , director of education Keith Mitchell says more than £1m is available for the development of nursery units over the next two years .
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