Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] over the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Feb. 26 , 1991 , the Anglo-Dutch food and cleaning products company , Unilever , announced that it would be cutting 5,500 jobs from a total workforce of 110,000 over the next three years . |
| 2 | The company has dropped strong hints to union leaders that the current programme involving cuts of 24,000 over the next year will be followed by a further rundown , although at a lower rate . |
| 3 | She was going to need every moment of tutoring over the next three weeks . |
| 4 | Cyprus is the second largest with 1,800 members , an increase of 442 over the last year . |
| 5 | It would not surprise us to see something like this over the next few months . ’ |
| 6 | They were pretty good at making appointments but they could n't cope with sales , and there 's been a tremendous change in that over the last two years . |
| 7 | Sales of Knowlton 's and other pamphlets soared , selling in millions over the next few years when previously they had sold in tens of thousands ( Teitelbaum 1984 ) . |
| 8 | But we 've also seen that the various , th that there is a whole range of , of practical day to day issues which have come up which have , have like distorted a s a straightforward progression along those ideological lines tt and in particular over the last we , we 've , we 've identified the political and military factors erm |
| 9 | JOHN Major , Graham Gooch and Graham Taylor have had a lot in common over the last week , with the latter two probably coming under even more public pressure than our beleaguered Prime Minister . |
| 10 | Ernst and Young has cut its annual graduate recruitment by 110 to 540 over the last two years but generally the big firms , some with workforces of over 7,000 , have been slow to react to the downturn . |
| 11 | According to a study by Italy 's joint chiefs of staff , a manpower shortage may lead to the army being cut by up to half over the next 20 years . |
| 12 | The government meets three quarters of the costs of section eleven projects , but that 's being cut to half over the next two years . |
| 13 | Despite having an army of 285,000 ( to be cut to 250,000 over the next three years ) , France would have been hard-pressed to do more . |
| 14 | Initially , the company will create 200 new jobs , rising to 520 over the next few years . |
| 15 | NIPPON Telegraph and Telephone , the Japanese telecommunications group , is reducing its workforce by 20,000 to 230,000 over the next two years as part of an 80 billion yen ( £343m ) cost-cutting programme . |
| 16 | The 63,500 places now available should not be allowed to reduce to 54,000 over the next five years , as would be the case if the 15 per cent . |
| 17 | The docks currently employ 36 people and this will increase to 51 over the next 18 months as part of plans to expand the business . |
| 18 | West Ham have cut Newcastle 's lead from 15 points to four over the last month and increased their unbeaten league run to 12 . |
| 19 | They find that pH declined from about 7.0 to 5.5 over the first few thousand years following deglaciation , owing to natural processes . |
| 20 | The US will probably benefit from a doubling of middle-aged people aged 45 to 54 over the next 20 years because of the baby boom of the late 1950s . |
| 21 | This number is expected to grow to 4000 over the next five years . |
| 22 | Hares make up some 20 to 30 per cent of a rural fox 's diet , and foxes have increased by three-fold over the last 20 years . |
| 23 | Surveys along the north-east coast have shown that its numbers have fallen by half over the last decade , to today 's figure of around 100 . |
| 24 | THE NUMBER of army bands is to be cut by half over the next two years — but all Scottish regimental pipes and drums have escaped the axe . |
| 25 | Education Secretary John Patten says the Government wants to boost the number of students in further education by 222,000 over the next three years . |
| 26 | It is slashing its UK retailing workforce by 3,500 over the next five years , a staggering 20% of the 15,000 total . |
| 27 | It might be thought that a programme which proposes to cut the federal workforce by 100,000 over the next four years had scant claim to be a drive for jobs . |
| 28 | We will immediately introduce an emergency programme of investment in the infrastructure and in public works in order to get companies and people back to work , thus reducing unemployment by 600,000 over the next two years . |