After 1975 smallholders increasingly took over the bulk of export crop production, replacing foreign-owned plantations.
At best, the Afghans are years away from taking over the bulk of the fighting.
The new bank would take over the bulk of the business of the existing Barclays D.C.O.
U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan began dropping earlier this year as NATO arrived to take over the bulk of the fighting.
News that construction company Morgan Sindall will be stepping in to take over the bulk of the social-housing contracts has been described as a step towards greater certainty.
Chris Grayling, at justice, will effectively be rid of Napo, the probation officers' union, if his giant contracting scheme goes ahead and private firms take over the bulk handling of offenders.
Monday at 10am and Ed Vaizey made the announcement many had been expecting: the BFI is to take over the bulk of the funding duties of the now-defunct UK Film Council.
Edna retired after a decade, but Harriet had inherited her father's single-mindedness, and took over the bulk of the writing of the Nancy Drew series herself, remaining at the syndicate until her death, in 1982.
It supersedes a deal that Delphi and G.M. had reached with Platinum Equity, a private equity firm that had agreed to take over the bulk of the supplier's business.
Under its amended offer GE will take over the bulk of Alstom's gas- and coal-fired turbines business, forming three 50-50 joint ventures with Alstom's electricity-grid, renewables and French coal and nuclear operations.
The Wellcome Trust was last night at the centre of a £1bn plan to take over the bulk of the Olympic Park and use it to create a science and technology hub to drive innovation and business.
