Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seona Reid , director of the SAC , said that priorities had been identified for the development of the arts in Scotland over the next three to four years . |
| 2 | The Rural Development Commission expects 100,000 job losses in agriculture over the next decade and 50,000 associated redundancies because of CAP reform . |
| 3 | Split There were two or more correct hypotheses in sequence over the region of the hand-transcribed phoneme . |
| 4 | With the growing scientific knowledge of the causes of both sudden infant death and cancers in childhood over the years has grown the equally important knowledge of the benefits gained from support for the family . |
| 5 | Some scientists predict a great increase in skin cancers in humans over the next decades , and the effects on other life forms can hardly be calculated . |
| 6 | From the perspective of the NHS , considerable health gains and reductions in expenditure over the longer term could be achieved by expanding health promotion work with older people , a previously neglected group . |
| 7 | Anyone involved with PCs can hardly have failed to notice the dramatic price reductions in PCs over the last year . |
| 8 | More 's study ( 1980 ) of skill levels among engineering workers in England over the period 1870–1914 comes to the conclusion that it is not possible to sustain a definite ‘ deskilling ’ thesis on the evidence available . |
| 9 | Rosemary teaches people with learning difficulties at Oulton Broad while Marlene has taught many classes in Suffolk over the past 20 years ( including 50+ groups ) , assisted with the Norfolk Training Course , and has brought several teams of class members to perform items at our Annual Reunions . |
| 10 | However , Mongolian students staged a protest outside the Chinese embassy in Ulan Bator on June 4 , 1990 , to commemorate the crushing of the Chinese democracy movement in June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] , and there were further student protests in October over the issue of political prisoners in Inner Mongolia . |
| 11 | What is certain , however , is that these structural and geographical changes in the population have , in combination , produced a profound transformation in the population size and composition of most places in Britain over the past two decades . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State found it difficult enough to maintain the unity of his allies in Europe over the question of re-arming Germany . |
| 13 | CB is also most unlikely to reach its ambitious goal of generating half its earnings outside France by 1992 , despite having started 20 new businesses in Europe over the last few years . |
| 14 | There were characteristic variations in waveform over the left temporal region as a function of different spoken letters , but no parallel changes were recorded over the corresponding region of the right hemisphere . |
| 15 | Since animals depend either directly or indirectly on plants for food , all life is affected by the variations in weather over the seasons . |
| 16 | The National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has set out its proposals for the development of water resources in Britain over the next 30 years . |
| 17 | The division of labour and social collectivities : changes in progress over the 1960s |
| 18 | There have been considerable changes in vocabulary and slight changes in pronunciation over the last fifty years . |
| 19 | The decision to increase American aid reflected the ‘ dramatic changes in Poland over the past two months ’ , said Mr Fitzwater . |
| 20 | It is hard not to wonder when , in ignoring the best writing for children , they are denying the existence of the multicultural and non-sexist fiction which has reflected the changes in society over the last 20 years . ’ |
| 21 | Such is the importance of these events that none of the radical changes in Japan over the last 150 years can be properly understood without reference to them . |
| 22 | The pattern of changes in status over the three years since redundancy was broadly similar for those aged 55–59 , 40–54 , and under 40 at the time of redundancy . |
| 23 | Changes in roles over the year and changes in emphasis in areas of responsibility are outlined at the meeting . |
| 24 | Black ( 1982 ) related changes in net fixed investment to changes in GDP over the previous three years . |
| 25 | Most of the changes in temperature over the past hundred years can be broadly explained by these two processes at work . |
| 26 | The economy is poised for take-off and the figures in Stroud over the last few months but I fully understand the fears of the workers and their families |
| 27 | In addition there have been significant decreases in fertility over the same period . |
| 28 | In the searches in Belfast over the weekend of 11 and 12 January , which on three occasions revealed a mass of destructive material , we had an outstanding example of that patient work . |
| 29 | Commander Genda went through the plans in detail over the next ten days and came to the conclusion that it was possible and , although hazardous , had a reasonable chance of success . |
| 30 | The Round Table , which has always worked closely with the Trust has organised thirteen clinics in Oxfordshire over the next fortnight . |