Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adv] over [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bardul uses this chamber to store an amazing range of things which he has picked up over the years in the hope that one day they might be useful . |
| 2 | On another level , for example , the size of office premises has grown tremendously over the years . ’ |
| 3 | We are kept reading by the promise of an original sin or trauma that will justify — either in psychological or moral terms — the very existence of the story , but stripped of the successive identities he has built up over the years , Philip 's father is revealed as no more than an insecure , over-imaginative little boy . |
| 4 | The University Library has built up over the years one of the finest collections of African studies in higher education . |
| 5 | The Library has benefited enormously over the year from special funds of this kind : the Rose Graham Fund , the Gerrans Fund , the Centenary Funds for Science and Law , the Funds established in memory of Isobel Henderson , Diana and Michael Zvegintzov , Gisela Richter , Vera Farnell and Rosemary Woolf . |
| 6 | The attendance has increased steadily over the years and the conference attracts more and more international participants . |
| 7 | The former England winger said : ‘ As someone who has spouted on over the years about contracts , I am not about to walk out on my one with Crystal Palace . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ As someone who has spouted on over the years about contracts , I am not about to walk out on my one with Crystal Palace . ’ |
| 9 | The NI has campaigned consistently over the years for more emphasis to be placed on primary health care than on expensive technological options — in other words for local people to be trained to combat the most basic diseases , as in China 's revolutionary ‘ barefoot doctor ’ system . |
| 10 | Mr Wood has learned enough over the years about badgers to be able to get in as close as just a foot or two . |
| 11 | Laing has striven hard over the years to implement the enlightened human relations policies he first learned from his grandfather . |
| 12 | The Course has striven forcefully over the years of increased student demand and decreasing resources to preserve the notion of open access to modules in order to maintain the modular principles of real choice and flexibility . |
| 13 | This attitude has changed somewhat over the years and there are now fewer homes than there used to be . |
| 14 | Certainly the productivity of the coal industry has improved greatly over the years , but further improvement is still required . |
| 15 | Well , I would suppose that the person they 're looking for is similar in character , but if they 're going to er if they 're looking for that person I think they 've just got to act normally , and it 's not a one-off thing , I think it 's built up over the years . |
| 16 | It 's grown up over the years erm in fact I do n't think it counts as much , nearly as much now , as it used to . |