Example sentences of "[verb] over the [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | To these eight , a further thirteen children were added over the next twenty years . |
| 2 | The need for it has reduced but has not vanished over the past twenty years . |
| 3 | It is absolutely clear and I want to make it clear that we may not be doing anything tomorrow or the next day , we 'll all be , we 'll all be try to understand and determine is how we will deal with the issues in as and if traffic develops over the next ten years or so and that strategy will then form the basis under which we will try to resist city area that we did not see there . |
| 4 | While bank deposits have stagnated over the past three years , mutual funds , which are mostly outside the banks ' domain , have grown by two-thirds . |
| 5 | Does he agree that what they need is support and proper resources so that they can carry out their work , not what has been happening over the past 12 years — continual restructuring and reforms which do the service no good and break up the comprehensive national health service that we all know ? |
| 6 | On the contrary , what is happening , and has been happening over the past ten years or so , raises very serious questions indeed . |
| 7 | All the hospitals in Southampton have been rebuilt over the past few years . |
| 8 | okay Why do you think that intra industry trade has risen , say over the last fifty years ? |
| 9 | But can you just give me , sort of , a brief overview of what 's happened to the composition of world trade right , say over the last hundred years or so . |
| 10 | It was suggested that too much VAT had been claimed over the previous two years . |
| 11 | It was suggested that too much VAT had been claimed over the previous two years . |
| 12 | After this chronological march through the archives , Jane Brown devotes the second part of her weighty book to the delightfully rich seam of garden buildings and ornament designed over the last 400 years . |
| 13 | Cos in actual fact there was a , a lot of sort of de facto redistribution because er some of these account settling things were just so ridiculous you know make them pay for crimes their family had committed over the last sixty years or whatever . |
| 14 | Despite a worldwide decline in average sperm counts over the past 50 years , those of Finnish men remain roughly twice those of men in other countries , according to Finnish research . |
| 15 | I have been very pleased with my performance , with my success and the achievements which I have enjoyed over the past 20 years . |
| 16 | Look back at any crises which occurred over the last few years . |
| 17 | It seems likely then that at least some of the renewable energy options will be pursued over the next few years . |
| 18 | As Kmart has begun putting these data to work over the past few years , the company 's operations have become steadily more centralised . |
| 19 | =23 , p=0.071 , with the number of accidents reported over the last five years . |
| 20 | The hotel , which will have full conference , banqueting and leisure facilities — including an outdoor swimming pool — is the first Novotel venture in Ireland , but others are expected over the next few years . |
| 21 | The projected increase this year is a further 25% over 1991/92 prices , and since the Library 's budget this year is the same as last year , drastic cuts in subscriptions were essential to avoid further damaging our bookfund , which has already been substantially eroded over the last three years . |
| 22 | It was a black day for Chancellor Kohl whose personal popularity has been steadily eroded over the past two years and whose ability to provide the CDU with effective leadership will be questioned more seriously than before . |
| 23 | The firm 's market share in Italy 's public sector has been eroded over the past three years and he says Olivetti , unlike its principal European competitors ( Siemens-Nixdorf of Germany and Bull of France ) , has enjoyed no particular privileges in its home market . |
| 24 | This model has been developed and validated over the past four years by a research team at Loughborough University through extensive experimentation . |
| 25 | If only the Department of Education and Science would take a leaf out of C&P 's book when introducing some of the fundamental changes that education has had to absorb over the last few years ! |
| 26 | The pace of investment is planned to increase over the next five years with over £50 million of expenditure planned in new and improved port facilities and associated infrastructure . |
| 27 | Though the number of people over the age of 65 is predicted not to increase over the next 10 years and to rise slowly thereafter , the profile of this group will change considerably . |
| 28 | But we 're now reasonably confident that we will continue to increase over the next few years and are budgeting for a modest growth . ’ |
| 29 | Recycling programmmes have failed to prevent Europe 's cities from increasing by 13 per cent the volume of waste discarded over the past five years . |
| 30 | These seem to have had their fears that the flood gates holding back university collections are now opening confirmed , as Edinburgh University announced last month that it was proposing to sell a sculpture by Adrian de Vries or a Ruisdael landscape , bequeathed by Sir James Torrie , to help put right a deficit permitted over the last few years by a Treasurer who has since resigned . |