Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] over the last [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have made very consistent efforts to brand Phaidon books over the last few years , putting the Phaidon name on the front and back of all our books as a brand image of quality , ’ he said . |
| 2 | We know , for instance , that large-scale grounding of Foxbats has occurred on all major Red Air Force bases over the last few months . |
| 3 | When a sergeant congratulated one section on the improvement in the language in the guard room over the last few hours when the field-worker had been present , one constable shouted , ‘ Fucking good job too , Sir ’ ( FN 2/2/87 , p. 6 ) , and the occupational culture of the station soon reasserted its typical forms of expression , which are widespread in all police forces and occupational cultures that are predominantly masculine and working class . |
| 4 | The line operates every Tuesday and gets dozens of calls , because , despite the fact that there have been fewer home repossessions over the last few months , the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux say that more people are getting themselves into debt . |
| 5 | Culled largely from pieces that first appeared in Melody Maker over the last few years , it amounts to the precise , enthusiastic explication of ‘ bliss ’ ; a kind of untidy sensual and emotional confusion engendered by the disruptive , abnormal qualities of his favourite music ( which includes the Pixies , Sonic Youth and Public Enemy ) . |
| 6 | Monitoring the telephone conversations of the Kremlin hierarchy had become one of his pet projects over the last few years . |
| 7 | The House has been rightly concerned at the creeping extension of Community competence over the last few years . |
| 8 | British Rail had introduced new safety measures over the last few months , but they could not legislate against criminal vandalism |
| 9 | The management have been extremely worried about the firms cash position over the last few years . |
| 10 | Market makers have been running ‘ flat ’ trading books over the last few days to minimise their risk . |
| 11 | ‘ People have got used to England winning line-out balls over the last few years . |
| 12 | Despite the efforts of Rowlinson and his undoubtedly substantial contribution to the growth of the UK business over the last few years , Korn/Ferry has not yet adapted to the British corporate scene quite as successfully as Egon Zehnder or fellow members of the Big Four . |
| 13 | Research in the Somerset Levels over the last few decades has produced a mass of evidence of prehistoric timber trackways built to cross the low-lying marshy land between the uplands of the Mendips and Poldens and islands in the Levels . |
| 14 | Interest in the abundance of groundwater resources has been rekindled , after the emphasis on water quality over the last few years . |
| 15 | It will be mentioned in several contexts that the complexity of CAB advice work over the last few years has increased considerably . |
| 16 | Herbert Tracey reflected that the ‘ defeatist ’ mood of the trade unions over the last few years had been transformed . |
| 17 | Surely that has been one of the major changes of Government policy over the last few years . |
| 18 | In general , the topic has become more prominent in management and trade union circles over the last few years . |
| 19 | Consequently , an active programme of asset disposals has been under way over the last year in order to reduce the group 's high level of debt , which was the result of decisions to develop new oil and gas fields over the last few years , as well as the additional debt burden inherited following the acquisition of Ultramar . |
| 20 | Significantly , it says there has been slowing down of sales of its Sparc server systems over the last few months , and expects its European turnover for the coming year to remain flat at $15m . |
| 21 | That follows on a steady increase in nursery provision over the last few years . |
| 22 | Few would disagree that the CAB has raised its profile in the public eye over the last few years . |
| 23 | made out a thermal comfort test on G P House over the last few days er , and we 're now awaiting their results . |