Example sentences of "increase [prep] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small firms benefited from a reform of the Uniform Business Rate , which effectively freezes increases for firms over the next year , inheritance tax changes and new powers to curb late payment of bills . |
| 2 | Book illustration is a field marked by sharp increases in price over the last two decades . |
| 3 | Agriculture has learned to respond quickly to technical advances and has achieved greater increases in productivity over the last 25 years than any other industry . |
| 4 | At the end of the letter Mr Cheeseman suggested that an incentive scheme could be introduced in order ‘ to provide retrospective discounts for increases in business over the base period , which will be the 12 months to March 1993 . ’ |
| 5 | The hourly rate for doctors called on occasionally was set at £93 , an increase of 12% over the old fee . |
| 6 | As an alternative to the cash dividend the Board is proposing that an enhanced scrip dividend is offered to shareholders whereby they may elect to receive new ordinary shares with a value of 10.65 pence per share , an increase of 50% over the proposed final cash dividend . |
| 7 | There has been a fascinating increase of interest over the last year by general practitioners in the use of defibrillators . |
| 8 | Although tax consultancy fee income rose by 3% to £105m , this compares with a total increase of 134% over the previous three years . |
| 9 | The 25th FAO conference in Rome in November 1989 adopted a regular budget of US$569,000,000 for 1990/91 , an increase of $77,000,000 over the previous biennium [ see p. 36957 ] . |
| 10 | The Wallace Collection attracted a record 198,225 visitors in 1992 , an increase of 41% over the previous year |
| 11 | In tourism , 1990 figures showed a 30 per cent increase in earnings over the previous year ( in spite of the Gulf crisis occurring halfway through the season ) , bringing the annual total to some US$3,300 million . |
| 12 | There was a 70 per cent increase in shop raids in London between 1925 and 1929 , for example , and a 90 per cent increase in bag-snatches over the same four-year period . |
| 13 | Silicon Graphics claims a near 300% increase in performance over the original R3000A-based family of Iris Indigoes . |
| 14 | ‘ One trader has already indicated he has had an increase in takings over the last week . |
| 15 | Destinations contains a marked increase in text over the two previous Streamline English coursebooks and some units are of two pages , reflecting students ' developing proficiency in the language . |
| 16 | This is undoubtedly the main reason why the last twenty years have seen a steady increase in controls over the mass media , either by government takeover or by censorship and suppression . |
| 17 | And beer , caught between the factors and the one third increase in teetotalism over the past decade . |
| 18 | Does not that answer confirm that the increase in crime in the past 12 years has been greater both in proportion and in number than the increase in crime over the previous 12 centuries ? |
| 19 | He believes that ScotRail 's 9 per cent increase in revenue over the past year has helped strengthen his case for a buy-out . |
| 20 | He believes that ScotRail 's 9 per cent increase in revenue over the past year has strengthened his case for a buy-out . |
| 21 | Surveys carried out by the council and school children showq a marked increase in traffic over the last year . |
| 22 | Commentary : The common size statements merely confirm what we have already suggested above from our initial analysis , i.e. the gross profit has declined with a marked decline in 1988 and this has been accompanied by an increase in interest over the last years . |
| 23 | Welsh success : Wales continues to lead the UK out of recession , enjoying the largest regional increase in orders over the last four months , says the Bank of Wales . |
| 24 | It will be an official European event with Order of Merit status and will have a substantial increase in prize-money over the Hong Kong event . |
| 25 | The company reported a 10pc increase in profits over the same period with figures up from £253m to £278m . |
| 26 | Of these , only two , the chaffinch and the greenfinch , registered a slight increase in population over the period . |