Example sentences of "[vb pp] over the [adj] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | While bank deposits have stagnated over the past three years , mutual funds , which are mostly outside the banks ' domain , have grown by two-thirds . |
| 2 | A decrease in the incidence of gastric carcinoma has been widely reported over the last three decades . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | These tough measures are part of a determined effort by the newly independent country to regain control of a resource that has been systematically plundered over the past three decades . |
| 7 | ( ii ) In addition , the details of training courses applicants have attended over the previous three years will be used as background information and will be relevant to demonstrate interest in medical negligence litigation , commitment and willingness to learn . |
| 8 | We 've created a new sector , I , I 've seen over the last three or four years , changes in the way that we 've tried to represent our membership in the Health Service from the old industrial conferences to combined industrial conferences into the er , current erm , section that we 've now got . |
| 9 | Decisions made over the next three months seem certain to shape the future of work and play in Britain until well into the next century . |
| 10 | You may have noticed over the last three slides that several of sites have had a zero er percentage registered and we certainly feel that in a couple of these sites this was probably due to poor note-keeping rather than a percentage . |
| 11 | It so happens that this rate is exactly the output of the building industry , averaged over the previous three years . |
| 12 | What we shall do , as we have done over the past three years , is to ensure that poorer pensioners — those who have not benefited from the result of our general policies towards pensioners which have increased pensioners ' real living standards by over 34 per cent . |
| 13 | Survey data collected over the last three decades will be re-analysed to see whether changes in the geography of economic and social well-being in Great Britain have led to either or both of changed political attitudes and changed partisan allegiances . |
| 14 | No effort has been made to investigate the tens of thousands of murders and ‘ disappearances ’ that have occurred over the past three years : in February , Sri Lankan human rights activists estimated that 40,000 people had ‘ disappeared ’ since 1987 . |
| 15 | It 's been renovated over the last three months at Gloucestershire airport at Staverton near Gloucester , bound for a new life in Australia ferrying tourists on a two week tour of the outback . |
| 16 | The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators says that demand for good qualified chartered secretaries has rocketed over the last three to four years . |
| 17 | The investment is huge with nearly £1billion to be spent over the next three years . |
| 18 | My plans also allow for an additional £30 million to be spent over the next three years on improving our school buildings , an increase of 17 per cent . |
| 19 | John Stewart ( Points of View , today ) laments over the quality of programmes being made for the £30 million being spent over the next three years on Gaelic television . |
| 20 | First discovered in 1695 , the pavement has been repeatedly buried and re-exposed over the last three centuries . |
| 21 | Still only 28 years old , Goram is imbued with the belief that his best days in the goalkeeping position that respects age have yet to come , and will be experienced over the next three years . |
| 22 | On May 28-29 in the Chilean capital , Santiago , the Foreign Ministers of eight Rio Group countries ( Panama and Peru being suspended ) and their counterparts from four European Community ( EC ) member countries ( Spain , Portugal , the United Kingdom and Ireland ) signed four agreements on joint investment in Latin America , to be financed over the next three years by a line of credit from the European Investment Bank ( EIB ) worth US$900,000,000 . |
| 23 | Fortnightly intramuscular injections of 50 mg mycocrisin were administered over the next three months . |
| 24 | ICL 's second trophy went to its Bracknell , Berkshire-based Mid Range Systems division for the volume of DRS 6000 series systems and associated Unix products and services shipped abroad — its revenues are reckoned to have trebled over the past three years to over £250m ; Cambridge-based IXI Ltd was recognised for its success in the open systems software arena with its X.desktop product for Unix , and Chalfont , Buckinghamshire-based Madge Networks Ltd , which ships its high performance Token Ring networking products across the world , and finds it necessary to kid the locals that it 's an American company when it is doing business in the US , also wins an Export award . |
| 25 | It is obviously a very exciting project for us though , and it will allow Kylie to show just how much she has developed over the past three years . |
| 26 | Inflation has fallen over the last three months and the cone of possible future inflation is now pointing slightly downwards , the bank reports in the first of its quarterly reviews of inflation produced in response to the Chancellor 's invitation in his speech at the Mansion House last year . |
| 27 | I think bearing in mind the clear intentions behind criteria two and the concern that we 've heard over the last three days about inward migration , it might be useful if we tag a rider onto erm criteria two . |
| 28 | At Christmas and Easter records are printed over the next three working days ready for collection by students on the first day of term along with the two to three hundred letters from the Assistant Dean . |
| 29 | Will the Minister confirm that in the summer he met a group from Derbyshire county council who asked for £140 million , spread over the next three years , to get rid of all outstanding repairs and make necessary improvements ? |
| 30 | But it will be the big increases in tax , spread over the next three years , by which this Budget will be remembered . |