Example sentences of "countries over the " in BNC.
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1 | Travelling to several countries over the last year , has brought it home to me how disastrous are the effects , worldwide , of the virus causing AIDS . |
2 | However , the quality of economic decision-making in most African countries over the last thirty years suggests that this is inextricably linked to the relative failure of aid . |
3 | A study by the OECD tries to forecast what all these extra grey heads mean for public spending in different countries over the next 40 years , assuming that government policies remain unchanged . |
4 | It is the fifteenth in a series called ‘ The Russian world ’ which he has created for museums in various countries over the last five years or so . |
5 | Furthermore , given that much of trade union growth in the four countries over the post-World War II period has been in the white-collar field there are difficulties in relating aggregate union membership changes to changes in the wages of manual workers only . |
6 | Transition from school to adult and working life has been receiving increased attention in most developed countries over the last decade . |
7 | Events in many countries over the last few years must have re-awakened in every English soul , an awareness of what it means to be English . |
8 | According to CIA estimates , Latin America ( excluding Cuba ) was allocated only 5.6 per cent of the aid extended by the Soviet Union to all non-Communist developing countries over the period 1954–78 , and received less than 2.5 per cent of Soviet military deliveries to the Third World . |
9 | By all means let us find ways of limiting the use of cars , but in truth , is the real cause of our difficulties not the dramatic rise in numbers of people in this and other countries over the past 70 years ? |
10 | Nordhaus has looked at the evidence in nine countries over the period 1947–72 . |
11 | He tests it using data from a number of different countries over the same time period , reasoning that if equation ( 6.1 ) were true , then those countries in which aggregate demand has been highly unpredictable should be those countries in which unpredictable aggregate demand has little effect on real output . |
12 | These complex relationships have been central to the fortunes of the two countries over the past three centuries . |
13 | Regular visits to each of the three countries over the five-year period will enable a series of interviews with key decision-makers to be carried out , and qualitative and quantitative data to be collected . |
14 | ( Industry analysts suggested that prices at this level were likely in the short term only if Libya withdrew supplies in retaliation against Western countries over the current sanctions issue — see p. 38883 — but conceded that the general trend of the market was upwards . ) |
15 | Japan 's Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe visited Moscow for talks with his Russian counterpart , Andrei Kozyrev , on May 3-5 , concerning the longstanding territorial dispute between the two countries over the four most southerly islands in the Kurile chain which had been occupied by the Soviet Union in August 1945 . |
16 | Moreover , since unit costs actually rose less in the United States than in competing countries over the same period , the improvement in US cost competitiveness was actually 27 per cent on average . |