Example sentences of "be [vb pp] over [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of pounds have been collected over a number of years , resulting in items of new equipment that have each been featured in previous issues of Glenpatrick News . |
| 2 | As a result , drawings are phased over a number of years and are granted in accordance with the successful attainment of the agreed programme . |
| 3 | If you think of it the other way when , what happens when a price , when a price falls , alright , if farmers er , assume that price fall will be sustained over a number of periods , then they think , right well in order to achieve the same level of income , right , as I did previously , if prices have fallen , I 'm going to have to increase my output . |
| 4 | At the meeting Eduard Shevardnadze , the Soviet Foreign Minister , proposed the " decoupling " of the internal and external aspects of unification so that the former could be completed swiftly while allowing a unified Germany 's security status to be resolved over a number of years . |
| 5 | Thus , whereas in the relational model information about the object customer would be scattered over a number of relations ( which could be : customer , holding customer name and address information ; sales ledger , holding details about the debts of the customer ; invoice , holding details of payments due ) , in the object-oriented model there would be one object , customer , reflecting all this information . |
| 6 | It 's typical of the states I get in here I suddenly told myself that the digging would have to be done over a number of days , the only stupid thing was to expect to do it all in one . |
| 7 | One problem for small businesses is that capital needs to be reinvested over a number of years yet there are no special allowances provided by the government for doing so . |
| 8 | Discrimination and parental choice have come to be linked over a number of issues of current importance . |
| 9 | Although the liability will be settled over a number of years , the future payments represent a contingent loss at the balance sheet date . |
| 10 | If an open-loop stepping motor control is to operate at speeds in excess of the start/ top rate the instantaneous stepping rate must be increased over a number of steps , until the maximum speed is attained . |
| 11 | Adult speech which contains a relatively high proportion of statements or declaratives has been associated with accelerated language development in young children , while studies of pre-schoolers have indicated that conversations are more likely to be maintained over a number of turns if adults make positive contributions by adding new information ( Wood et al . |
| 12 | Part of the explanation for this is that government spending tends to be planned over a number of years ( e.g. hospitals , schools , and other capital expenditures take several years to complete , and governments are reluctant to dismiss teachers , policemen , and other employees for short-term economic reasons ) ; consequently such expenditure tends to be fairly inflexible , especially downwards , in the short run . |
| 13 | The behaviour of privatised industries will have to be studied over a number of years before it is possible to conclude whether the ownership of the company ( ie private or public ) or the market structure ( ie competitive or monopolistic ) is the major determinant of corporate behaviour . |
| 14 | Acknowledging that cars are responsible for 70 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles , the CBI has suggested that the taxation of road transport should be changed over a number of years to encourage the use of more fuel-efficient vehicles . |
| 15 | Calculating the expected yield from a new machine , however , is not easy because yields are spread over a number of years in the future . |
| 16 | The work is being phased over a number of years but already some of the refurbishment has been completed . |
| 17 | However , when the sexual behaviour of thousands of gay men has been studied over a number of years , sucking has n't shown up as a risk . |
| 18 | The main concern of this chapter is to complete the description of intonational form , including analysis of perhaps the most difficult aspect , that of recognising fall-rise and rise-fall tones when they are extended over a number of syllables . |
| 19 | The teacher in charge is flustered over the number of boys who sloped off to buy food . ’ |
| 20 | Enthusiasm was sustained over a number of weeks , read out in instalments to the class and eventually produced as a book . |
| 21 | Assuming no overall change in the CAA 's activities , no cross-subsidy , and a policy of full cost recovery of actual work done , we estimate that the additional cost to our sector of the industry would mean an increase in all AOC charges and C o A charges of more than 1,000 per cent — clearly a preposterous situation which would effectively kill off our AOC sector even if the increase was spread over a number of years , and would thus be self-defeating since it would leave the airlines to pay more of the CAA 's overheads than they do now . |