Example sentences of "[vb pp] over the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To these eight , a further thirteen children were added over the next twenty years . |
| 2 | The need for it has reduced but has not vanished over the past twenty years . |
| 3 | The hospital is asking GPs only to send in only urgent cases … further operations are likely to be cancelled over the next few days |
| 4 | While bank deposits have stagnated over the past three years , mutual funds , which are mostly outside the banks ' domain , have grown by two-thirds . |
| 5 | All the hospitals in Southampton have been rebuilt over the past few years . |
| 6 | It is hoped that the worst of the damage will be repaired over the next two to three years . |
| 7 | It was suggested that too much VAT had been claimed over the previous two years . |
| 8 | It was suggested that too much VAT had been claimed over the previous two years . |
| 9 | After this chronological march through the archives , Jane Brown devotes the second part of her weighty book to the delightfully rich seam of garden buildings and ornament designed over the last 400 years . |
| 10 | Despite calls by some countries , the proposals would not be introduced immediately , however , but would be considered over the next six months . |
| 11 | Cos in actual fact there was a , a lot of sort of de facto redistribution because er some of these account settling things were just so ridiculous you know make them pay for crimes their family had committed over the last sixty years or whatever . |
| 12 | I have been very pleased with my performance , with my success and the achievements which I have enjoyed over the past 20 years . |
| 13 | The jobs will be shed over the next eighteen months and will affect management , administration and production workers across thirty five sites . |
| 14 | It seems likely then that at least some of the renewable energy options will be pursued over the next few years . |
| 15 | =23 , p=0.071 , with the number of accidents reported over the last five years . |
| 16 | A decrease in the incidence of gastric carcinoma has been widely reported over the last three decades . |
| 17 | The report claims three hundred and sixty five cases of AIDS have been reported over the past three months ; it 's the highest quarterly rate yet . |
| 18 | A survey of the Japanese computer market in Nikkei group magazine Nikkei Computer estimates the Japanese domestic computer market at $92,000m : a growth rate of 6% is expected over the new financial year that started on April 1 ; by sector the market grew last fiscal by 18% for Unix systems , compared with 8% for the data services market , 5% for mainframe computers and 3% for small business computers , while personal computers saw negative growth ; Unix machines are expected to grow by 20% this year and personal computers to put on 7% ; mainframes are again expected to be affected by the depressed economic conditions but will still manage 2% growth . |
| 19 | expected over the next four months it 's nevertheless from a reasonably high level because it 's done well so far erm and I would n't want to over stress the sense in which Wales is perhaps not doing as well as the others . |
| 20 | A spokesman said more cash calls were expected over the next few months as members become faced with increasing demands from agents to meet large losses . |
| 21 | The hotel , which will have full conference , banqueting and leisure facilities — including an outdoor swimming pool — is the first Novotel venture in Ireland , but others are expected over the next few years . |
| 22 | Here McMillan 's draw weight with last stone was perfect but the stone did n't curl as expected over the last few yards . |
| 23 | Around Somerton in Somerset , for example , Roger Leech suggests that all the settlements that existed in late Roman times have been located over the last several centuries , and so the pattern we see is probably a true reflection of the state of affairs in the Roman era , showing farmsteads and hamlets 1–2 kilometres ( ½-1 mile ) apart , scattered evenly across the landscape . |
| 24 | The projected increase this year is a further 25% over 1991/92 prices , and since the Library 's budget this year is the same as last year , drastic cuts in subscriptions were essential to avoid further damaging our bookfund , which has already been substantially eroded over the last three years . |
| 25 | It was a black day for Chancellor Kohl whose personal popularity has been steadily eroded over the past two years and whose ability to provide the CDU with effective leadership will be questioned more seriously than before . |
| 26 | The firm 's market share in Italy 's public sector has been eroded over the past three years and he says Olivetti , unlike its principal European competitors ( Siemens-Nixdorf of Germany and Bull of France ) , has enjoyed no particular privileges in its home market . |
| 27 | He changed his assessment in a Jan. 10 letter to the committee 's chairman Les Aspin , however , with the judgment that " the ability of Iraqi ground forces to defend Kuwait is unlikely to be substantially eroded over the next six to 12 months " and that " economic hardship alone is unlikely to compel Saddam to retreat " within that time . |
| 28 | ‘ We have reviewed the results and the fact is we lost as many as we have won over the last two seasons , ’ said Bates . |
| 29 | Recycling programmmes have failed to prevent Europe 's cities from increasing by 13 per cent the volume of waste discarded over the past five years . |
| 30 | These seem to have had their fears that the flood gates holding back university collections are now opening confirmed , as Edinburgh University announced last month that it was proposing to sell a sculpture by Adrian de Vries or a Ruisdael landscape , bequeathed by Sir James Torrie , to help put right a deficit permitted over the last few years by a Treasurer who has since resigned . |