Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Horn 's assessment is that by the 1790s the southern farm labourer 's standard of living had been falling for thirty years , and that an increase of around 85 per cent in money wages over the war years kept it just about level up to 1815 . |
| 2 | The October 1990 rate cut was anticipated for some time in advance by the gilt market which bought gilts and drove up gilt prices ( see Fig. 17.3 ) , as was the continued fall in base rates over the next two years . |
| 3 | In comparison the er the the smallest projection put forward by Mr Thomas , would actually result in a twenty one percent decrease in building rates over that approved in the adopted adopted plan , and a thirty two percent increase over the actual rate experienced since nineteen eighty one . |
| 4 | The data does not include common land and it has had to be standardised to overcome changes in category definitions over the years . |
| 5 | In keeping with that statement growth in undergraduate numbers over the past few years has been less than 1 per cent a year . |
| 6 | This was followed by a statement from the New China News Agency on 6 July conveying the desire of the Chinese communists to take part in peace negotiations over Japan . |
| 7 | Lord Aldington , a UK peer and former Army officer , was on Nov. 30 , 1989 , awarded £1,500,000 in libel damages over a pamphlet accusing him of deliberately sending 70,000 Yugoslavs and Cossacks to their death in 1945 . |
| 8 | Are you aware of any significant changes in council policies over the past five years ? |
| 9 | A further problem with this aspect of the analysis is the changes in exchange rates over the period of the study . |
| 10 | Dilnot and Kell felt that any ‘ incentive ’ effect which may have been present could only account , at most , for 1.2bn or 3% of the total increase in tax revenues over the period studied . |
| 11 | Moreover , former farm workers and other locals who have ceased to work in the village but who remain resident there and commute to nearby towns , may also involve themselves in leisure activities over a much wider geographical area than hitherto . |
| 12 | The Scottish Typographical Circular for instance rather specialized in joke articles over a woman 's signature which are obviously not by a woman at all . |
| 13 | in cash terms over this year 's estimated outturn . |
| 14 | The trust , a capital-growth specialist in Far Eastern investment , excluding Japan , lifted its NAV from 26.26p at the year-end to 36.44p in the six months to 31 January , easily beating the performance of the comparable benchmark , the FT Actuaries Pacific Basin ex-Japan Index , which rose by 20.1 per cent in sterling terms over the same period . |
| 15 | The tax cuts for the top income earners , the increase in share prices over the decade , and the effects of the recession have sharpened economic differentials in the Thatcher period . |
| 16 | The scheme , forbiddingly called a fixed assured note , will take a minimum £5,000 and guarantees to provide people with the full increase in share prices over the next five years as measured by the FTSE100 index . |
| 17 | All five countries except Japan registered gains in share prices over the year up to the Gulf crisis . |
| 18 | To expand the discussion to cover the changes in water properties over the entire water column , we have made comparisons with previous data sets . |
| 19 | Digital Equipment Corp 's share of this market declined 14.5% in revenue and 3.6% in volume terms over the previous year , to $1,059m . |
| 20 | DEC 's share of this market declined 14.5% in revenue and 3.6% in volume terms over the previous year , to $1,059m . |
| 21 | In theory children over the age of 12 months could just use an adult seat belt . |
| 22 | This trial is the first to prospectively follow elemental diet or prednisolone induced remission in adult patients over a period of a year . |
| 23 | With the vast expansion in library collections over the past 20 years , library professionals have had to deal with an ever increasing burden in the production and maintenance of library catalogues . |
| 24 | She dived down a narrow lane , and within minutes she was in front of a small shop with the name ‘ Suzanne ’ in gilt letters over the bow-windows . |
| 25 | This is only partly explained by a fall in pupil numbers over the same period — of 17% . |
| 26 | Commenting on its fiscal 1993 figures , which saw the company soar through the $2,000m sales mark for the year ( see page five ) Dell Computer Corp said cash and investments totalled $95m at January 31 , down from $155m at the beginning of the fiscal year , but the company added a new $200m revolving line of credit with nine multinational banks ; it invested $47m in capital expenditures over the course of the year , primarily in telecommunications , facilities expansion and systems . |
| 27 | For example , the reduction in manufacturing jobs over the last decades in some high wage countries has forced workers to seek jobs in other less well paid and less secure sectors or , as has happened particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom , forced older workers displaced from traditional industries ( like mining and steel-making ) into permanent unemployment . |
| 28 | Take heart : the green consumer movement has made a significant dent in manufacturing practices over a very short time . |
| 29 | The decision came after confusion in government circles over the move and a threat from Andrei Plesu , Minister of Culture , to resign . |
| 30 | This is because the change in the stock in the current quarter ( ) consists of revaluations ( which are a function of the change in asset prices over the quarter ) and new purchases which are a function of expected gains from the time of purchase rather than simply from the end of the current quarter . |