Example sentences of "[noun] over the [adj] 15 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It reckons more than 8,400 new jet airliners will be sold by western manufacturers over the next 15 years , worth more than $500 billion ( see chart overleaf ) . |
| 2 | Vosper Hovermarine is the world 's largest manufacturer of sidewall hovercraft , having built more than 100 smaller designs over the past 15 years . |
| 3 | According to Lao National Radio on that day , the conference would " examine thoroughly the performance of each financial agency and locality ; evaluate correctly the achievements made by the financial sector over the past 15 years ; and assess the current economic and financial situation and remaining problems so as to find effective measures to open the way for socio-economic development with new mechanisms " . |
| 4 | The database for the system contains data on the price movements of 1,700 companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange over the past 15 years . |
| 5 | FoE calculated that replacing old , worn-out fridges and freezers with energy efficient models over the next 15 years would wipe out the need for 1.8GW of electricity . |
| 6 | The work is continuing with the development of a new framework for tax incidence , examining the concept of progressivity and investigating the factors which have changed the income distribution over the last 15 years . |
| 7 | In Britain , there has been a steady but unpublicised increase in its use in police investigation over the past 15 years . |
| 8 | THE export business at has seen dramatic development over the last 15 years . |
| 9 | Others have been published in the different book series which WACC supports , or in theme after theme of Media Development over the past 15 years . |
| 10 | A colourful selection of map ephemera in the form of Christmas cards , gifted to or collected by the Library over the past 15 years , was used as the cover for the December 1990 issue of the international journal The Map Collector . |
| 11 | The Gloucestershire firm will supply the Lockheed Company of America with £200 million worth of propellers over the next 15 years . |
| 12 | The government plans to build a further 56 large pulping mills over the next 15 years . |
| 13 | This works out at 1,460 rupees a year for a rickshaw worth just 2,000 , so he could have bought ten rickshaws with the money he has given the owner over the last 15 years . |
| 14 | However , the success rate over the past 15 years has remained almost constant . |
| 15 | Your article omits a further important strand to the debate over the past 15 years as to the optimal level of borrowing for firms . |
| 16 | He told a London conference on acid rain that nearly half of southern Sweden 's forest soils are seriously damaged now , or at risk of serious damage over the next 15 years . |
| 17 | The success of the Modular Course over the past 15 years has in many respects been the success of Oxford Polytechnic . |
| 18 | * Meanwhile , a report for the European Commission has shown how EC countries could implement a 20 per cent cut in carbon dioxide emissions over the next 15 years ( by 2005 ) at a cost that is almost negligible . |
| 19 | She said the Government over the past 15 years had made around £50 billion in revenue from Sullom Voe oil terminal in Shetland . |
| 20 | Whatever the verdict on her previous achievements , the decline in her performance over the past 15 years has been marked and far-reaching . |
| 21 | Long experience suggests that magnetic disks have seen off a long series of challenges over the past 15 years — but a review of the survival and thriving of the technology gives a very partial and inadequate view . |
| 22 | Design difficulties , problems , chloride contamination , and inadequate waterproofing of materials have caused major problems for bridges — leaving the ministry with an £800 million repair bill over the next 15 years . |
| 23 | One of the main aims of the programme will be to collect information over the next 15 years to measure the impact of global warming . |
| 24 | These are theoretical and practical questions of considerable importance as discussion over the last 15 years has shown . |
| 25 | Boeing predicts that revenue passenger miles ( RPMs — the number of passengers carried on each flight multiplied by the distance of the flight ) will continue to grow by 5.4% a year over the next 15 years . |
| 26 | My data , gathered painstakingly from the local Basque press over the past 15 years , suggest the number should be closer to 600 . |
| 27 | An Amnesty International report published on Nov. 21 called for a public commission to penetrate an official wall of silence and secrecy surrounding the disappearance of 100 people in the south of Morocco and the Western Sahara over the previous 15 years . |
| 28 | The most dramatic effect of the squeeze , says Sir Eric , is seen in academic salaries , He produces figures which show that while dons ' salaries have retained their real value over the last 15 years or so — that is to say , they have kept pace with the Retail Price index — almost every other non-manual worker in the UK has done significantly better . |
| 29 | A report on the sand and gravel resources of the country around Strachan and Auchenblae , published during the year , completes a programme of six such surveys of sand and gravel resources undertaken in Grampian Region over the last 15 years . |
| 30 | The publication in 1990 of a report on the sand and gravel resources of the country around Strachan and Auchenblae completes a programme of six such surveys undertaken in the Grampian Region over the last 15 years . |