Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] over [art] last " in BNC.

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1 The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century .
2 Bankings which have been torn apart over the last two centuries and then rebuilt and rebuilt again may have to be moved back to take the sting out of the pile-driving force of the river in spate .
3 Castle continues to value video copyrights on a historical cost basis because its catalogue has only been built up over the last two or three years and there is less earnings experience on which to base a valuation .
4 The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators .
5 Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin .
6 This aspect of the work has been phased out over the last few years as the UK content in most projects has risen to more than 70 per cent , leaving OSO to concentrate on its other roles in encouraging research and development into new offshore technology and using UK expertise to gain export orders on the back of North Sea achievements .
7 Hence the keen interest in this result and the fierceness of the battle which has been fought here over the last few weeks .
8 In fact most outstanding problems were ironed out over the last couple of months , Goldstein says ; bug fixing remains .
9 In fact most outstanding problems were ironed out over the last couple of months , Goldstein says ; bug fixing remains .
10 They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions .
11 The collection , which he says was put together over the last twenty years , but most of which was acquired from the mid Eighties onwards in a sudden and unexplained burst of prosperity , consists of illuminated manuscripts , metalwork , coins and armour , mainly from the medieval Middle Eastern Islamic world .
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