Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] over the course " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growth of retirement and , more recently , early retirement has ensured that an increasing proportion of older people have been excluded from the labour force over the course of this century . |
| 2 | On the morning of the election , the nearest of all the major opinion polls to a correct result was Gallup in The Daily Telegraph , which put the Tories half a point ahead of Labour ( 38½ per cent to 38 per cent , a change-round of one percentage point over the course of the preceding week ) . |
| 3 | Claiming it is ‘ going into implementation mode , ’ OSF believes it can double its licence revenues over the course of this year with Distributed Computing Environment technologies now coming to market and a string of new business partnerships it will establish — see page five . |
| 4 | Having considered possible explanations for some of the major inter-country differences between the levels of union organisation at a particular point in time it is also useful to examine the related question of the factors which help to explain the year-to-year growth and fluctuations in union membership over the course of time . |
| 5 | Commenting on its fiscal 1993 figures , which saw the company soar through the $2,000m sales mark for the year ( see page five ) Dell Computer Corp said cash and investments totalled $95m at January 31 , down from $155m at the beginning of the fiscal year , but the company added a new $200m revolving line of credit with nine multinational banks ; it invested $47m in capital expenditures over the course of the year , primarily in telecommunications , facilities expansion and systems . |
| 6 | Evacuation was thus a constant migration of population — on Titmuss 's estimate , some 4 million people were dealt with by the government scheme over the course of the war — and in later waves many of the problems of inadequate medical inspection , inappropriate billeting , lack of schooling and so on were overcome . |