Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] over the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of total foreign investment in Czechoslovakia over the previous 2 years only 11 per cent had gone to Slovakia , and the common perception was that the industries of the Czech Lands were in general better placed to benefit from the programme of rapid privatization emphasised by Klaus . |
| 2 | The budget totalled $T40,000,000 , a rise of $T2,700,000 over the previous year . |
| 3 | In addition , of course , there is a brief commentary by the Departmental Head or the General Manager of the Public Service Unit , saying something about the movement in staffing over the previous year , and a brief word or two about what is going to happen in the current and future years . |
| 4 | SunSoft has enhanced Solaris 2.0 to 2.2 ( though it 's not officially calling it that ) boosting symmetric multiprocessing performance by 60% over the previous version as measured on an eight-way system . |
| 5 | According to new figures from the Central Statistical Office , consumers increased their debts by £13m in February having paid off £505m worth of debt over the previous six months . |
| 6 | Having cost the University of Bristol a lot of money over the previous months , I thought I ought to try to put something back , so I got myself sponsored : part of the money was to go to the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council , and half to the newly-formed Bristol University Arthritis Research Group . |
| 7 | Although tax consultancy fee income rose by 3% to £105m , this compares with a total increase of 134% over the previous three years . |
| 8 | The 25th FAO conference in Rome in November 1989 adopted a regular budget of US$569,000,000 for 1990/91 , an increase of $77,000,000 over the previous biennium [ see p. 36957 ] . |
| 9 | The Wallace Collection attracted a record 198,225 visitors in 1992 , an increase of 41% over the previous year |
| 10 | In tourism , 1990 figures showed a 30 per cent increase in earnings over the previous year ( in spite of the Gulf crisis occurring halfway through the season ) , bringing the annual total to some US$3,300 million . |
| 11 | Does not that answer confirm that the increase in crime in the past 12 years has been greater both in proportion and in number than the increase in crime over the previous 12 centuries ? |