Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun pl] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Human Development Report 1992 released by the UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) on April 23 showed that the doubling of income disparities over the last 30 years had enabled " the richest 20 per cent of the world 's people [ to become ] … at least 150 times more than the poorest 20 per cent " . |
| 2 | Given the close relationship between three month interbank rates and base rates , this provides a good guide to the money market 's expectation of the path of base rates over the next twelve months . |
| 3 | The librarian should normally plan a long-term programme of stock revisions over a period of , say , one to three years , selecting a number of specified priority subjects to be revised during that period . |
| 4 | Given the halving of living standards over the past year , this was an even more remarkable result . |
| 5 | There are a large number of research projects over a wide range of topics in health and health care : what health is and how it is to be valued , what influences health , the demand for and supply of health care , market equilibria and micro evaluation of treatments to system evaluation and the efficacy of planning , budgeting and monitoring mechanisms available to policy makers . |
| 6 | Fighting in the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan has intensified meanwhile in the run-up to the latest round of peace talks over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh . |
| 7 | We have announced a number of job losses over the past 12 months which have arisen as a result of er an internal cost cutting exercise to make our research more er cost effective , and also as a result of decisions by the Government and the electricity supply industry who have cut down their funding for basic research into reactor technology . |
| 8 | The article was a review of process developments over the years and the way changing technology has impacted on fuel design . |
| 9 | The second aspect is the relative stability in the proportion of transport workers over the two decades , despite , as we know from Figure 3.1 , the job losses that have occurred in the transport service industries since the 1960s . |
| 10 | And the local MP , Bob Litherland , revealed that he had warned the Home Office of security worries over the building . |
| 11 | Without doubt , the most important use of tax havens over the past 10 years has been to save ( or defer ) capital gains tax . |
| 12 | One of the main reasons for the poverty trap is the decline of tax thresholds over the years , as well as the relatively heavy rates of direct taxation on low incomes . |
| 13 | There have been a number of business failures over the past , very difficult , few months , but I hasten to add that the level of new business start-ups remains resilient and robust . |
| 14 | LIVERPOOL has had more than its share of pop stars over the years . |
| 15 | They will be self-financing , since we aim to raise 20 billion by way of pollution taxes over the first five year of Government . |
| 16 | Based on this information , meteorological and atmospheric dispersion models are employed to predict the spatial distribution of pollution concentrations over the area . |
| 17 | They have grown in importance in recent years as a way of financing trade , and in particular of tiding firms over the period from when they have to buy inputs to when they are able to sell the finished output . |
| 18 | Experimental evidence for the consistency of bond enthalpies over a number of compounds is provided by the standard molar enthalpies of combustion of alkanes in their homologous series ( see section 17.1 ) . |
| 19 | But his group also faces the threat of liquidation proceedings over a A$150million disputed indemnity agreement . |
| 20 | to assess the degree of convergence or divergence of input provision between and within classes of education authorities over the period 1975-84 ; |
| 21 | But because I was in like really really tight tights , er like and then a pair of ski pants over the top er , my whole leg was like , you know , sort of soaked in and this bloke was there going , hee , that 's pretty impressive and I was like , I 'm not going to let him know I was crying and like got up and went to the top of the slope and I carried on skiing for about an extra half an hour , but like when I got home , and I just took off , my whole leg started , feet swelling as I took the like , the tight like leggings off . |
| 22 | However , the talks were reported to have centred on the issue of water rights over the Jordan and Yarmouk rivers . |
| 23 | Imports of passenger cars over the three months rose only two per cent by volume , whilst imports of capital goods were down six per cent . |
| 24 | The only recent count of breeding birds over an extensive area recorded 23 pairs along 2.5 miles of the Chichester canal in 1969 . |
| 25 | Shamir made his call in the light of Cabinet disagreements over a Police Ministry proposal to prevent all unmarried Palestinian men under the age of 30 from entering Israel . |
| 26 | A comparison of birth rates over the last 20 years also shows a there are fewer regional variations . |
| 27 | The decree specified the precedence of government bodies over the parallel system of CPSU administrative bodies . |
| 28 | ‘ We saw 16 companies in a series of half-hour meetings over the two days , ’ says FFB 's European director , Roy Edleston . |
| 29 | The creation or improvement of a range of wildlife habitats over a 20-year period . |
| 30 | It 's all been condensed into two hours , and they 've even built a replica set of city gates over an old railway bridge . |