Example sentences of "over the [adj] four " in BNC.

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1 Tajan will then auction a choice of the best works at the Sporting d'hiver in Monaco on 13 and14 March before returning to the villa to sell the remainder in situ over the following four days .
2 Over the following four years he cultivated the nomadic way of life which , with the exception of the war years , was to be his until he died : he drifted restlessly in southern Europe and North Africa — and when in London was seen at the theatre , the Ballets Russes , the Café Royal , and at the bohemian restaurant , La Tour Eiffel .
3 Over the following four decades , Turner 's firm specialized in the manufacture of these buildings and erected many examples throughout Britain , including those at Marlfield , county Tipperary ; the wings of the Palm House , Belfast Botanic Gardens , 1839–40 ; the range at Killakee , county Dublin ; the curvilinear range in the National Botanic Gardens , Dublin , 1843–8 and 1868–9 ; the Winter Garden in the Inner Circle , Regent 's Park , London , 1845–6 , 1870–1 , and 1875–6 ( demolished 1932 ) ; the range at Haddo House , Aberdeenshire , 1844–5 ; the Victoria Regia House , Royal Botanic Gardens , Kew , 1852 ; and Woodstock , county Kilkenny .
4 The banks also agreed to postpone amortization payments due between 1991 and 1994 , a measure calculated to save Chile approximately $1,800 million annually over the following four years .
5 This involved setting targets each year for the growth of money supply over the following four years : the targets got progressively tighter over the four years , thus ‘ putting the squeeze on inflation ’ .
6 Erm looking at the employ sorry looking at the output side er the question looking at trends and output over the last four months shows that in all the four regions manufacturers say that output has increased over the preceding four months .
7 Finally Northern Ireland shows that there has been decline in output over the preceding four months and the only region t t to say that erm it 's fair to say that North Northern Ireland has been a weak region throughout er the recession erm and although in this survey optimism has climbed up a bit so it 's close to the U K average , it 's nevertheless a part of the U K which has really been behaving er rather differently from the rest of the economy reflecting its sort of , i its particular problems and the fact that it 's not part of the mainland economy .
8 He also needs to cap the new price so that it is prevented from rising further over the remaining four years of construction if he is to convince bankers that they should continue to support Eurotunnel .
9 Over the first four days it was all I could do to get Dawn to step off the perch I 'd set up in the field , with my glove just a few inches away from her .
10 There will inevitably be some changes , some leads swapping about , some instant titles as yet unknown , but in the main , after my quick skim over the first four months , I have attempted to give you an overall picture of what will undoubtedly be a very busy year .
11 There were five barges moored abreast here , and we climbed over the first four , greeting the startled crews as we went .
12 To refresh her memory she picked up the telephone , closed her eyes , and recalled how his gloved finger had moved over the first four raised knobs of plastic .
13 Over the first four years , the company projected an income growth from some £60,000 in the first year of operation to £555,000 by the fourth year .
14 Over the first four years of the debt crisis , after-tax profits at six big US commercial banks increase 57% .
15 And Stena Sealink claimed that the total market had grown by a mammoth 39pc over the first four months of 1993 compared with the previous year .
16 Mr Atkinson said the work would cost £60m over the first four years and between £11m and £15m over the next nine years .
17 A longitudinal study by John Fox and Peter Goldblatt of City University , London , showed that men unemployed at the time of the 1971 census were much more likely to have died over the subsequent four years .
18 In two careful analyses of the survey evidence over the past four months , the Washington Post and the American Political Report , an influential newsletter , have come to broadly similar conclusions .
19 Italy 's growth is also expected to slow , to around 1.5% this year , while forecasters have pencilled in 2.5% for Spain — barely half its average growth over the past four years .
20 Nor is it good news for the majority of people who already own-especially those who became first-time buyers over the past four years and whose complete capital has been wiped out : more than a million such people are probably technically bankrupt but need not admit it so long as they keep paying their mortgage .
21 Lord Lane paid tribute to his ‘ team ’ of judges and revealed that over the past four years he had reviewed almost 1,500 life sentences — a task he had been unable to delegate and which he willingly relinquished to his successor , Lord Justice Taylor .
22 A recent survey by the US Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association showed a 60 per cent increase in biotechnology medicines under development in the US over the past four years .
23 The number of people seeking refugee status has risen from 5,000 a year to 45,000 over the past four years .
24 It was amazing that someone who had won the British Open three times and come second once over the past four years should have to qualify , but the boss just got on with the job .
25 Over the past four days five hundred had been shot .
26 Over the past four years , since True Confessions , I have been working more on straight drama .
27 A comparison of the average output per annum of scientific papers over the past four years is revealing .
28 The title has been widely purchased by hobbyists , student , trainees , colleges , training departments and a very wide range of retail and industrial organisations over the past four years .
29 While most reggae DJs rapidly rise in popularity only to sink within a year , Shabba 's following has swelled over the past four years to a point where the reggae market is too small to contain him — witness the shooting and tear gas panic last year at the Brixton Academy , or January 's trashing of Tower Records , London , during a personal appearance .
30 More broadly , the strategy forms a kind of palimpsest of liberal views about the subsidised arts over the past four decades .
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