Example sentences of "in [noun] [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 | Using transactions data for the MMI for 1986 , Swinnerton , Curcio and Bennett ( 1988 ) found that the change in futures prices over the last five minutes had some predictive power for the change in the index over the next five minutes . |
| 6 | In keeping with that statement growth in undergraduate numbers over the past few years has been less than 1 per cent a year . |
| 7 | At the same time , it must be an indictment on the teaching of history in Ayrshire schools over many generations . |
| 8 | BCE Inc says it is ready to invest about $1,600m in telecommunications activities over the next five years in Asia , Latin America and Eastern Europe , and is interested in wireline privatisations , investment in wireless cellular licenses and joint ventures in both in different countries in those regions ; it has active negotiations with Mexico , India and Moscow for cellular licence investments , and is Cable & Wireless Plc 's partner in Mercury Communications Ltd ; BCE president L R Wilson also criticised Canada 's ‘ uncertain and confused ’ telecommunications regulatory framework , describing it as BCE 's biggest challenge , and calling for change ; at the annual meeting , he hit out at the policies of the Canadian Radio television & Telecommunications Commission , saying it is too slow in considering new products , services and rates — ‘ To be truly competitive , we need government policy and a regulatory framework which is clear , responsive and internationally relevant , ’ he said . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Are you aware of any significant changes in council policies over the past five years ? |
| 12 | Mr Michels also confirmed that occupancy rates in Stakis hotels over the last financial year had averaged 65 per cent . |
| 13 | A further problem with this aspect of the analysis is the changes in exchange rates over the period of the study . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | in cash terms over this year 's estimated outturn . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Some of the major reasons for the increase in resource consumption include a 23 per cent increase in Royline customers over the past year , a 60 per cent increase in the number and complexity of Back Office account enquiries and a 40 per cent increase in authorisation processing associated with online systems such as SWITCH , EDI and Cashline Reciprocity . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | All five countries except Japan registered gains in share prices over the year up to the Gulf crisis . |
| 23 | To expand the discussion to cover the changes in water properties over the entire water column , we have made comparisons with previous data sets . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | DEC 's share of this market declined 14.5% in revenue and 3.6% in volume terms over the previous year , to $1,059m . |
| 26 | In theory children over the age of 12 months could just use an adult seat belt . |
| 27 | This trial is the first to prospectively follow elemental diet or prednisolone induced remission in adult patients over a period of a year . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This is only partly explained by a fall in pupil numbers over the same period — of 17% . |