Example sentences of "[coord] over the [num ord] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The six months since Britain left the ERM have seen a more complete U turn in British economic policy than at any time in recent memory ; and over the last two years the deterioration in the nation 's finances has also been spectacular . |
| 2 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
| 3 | Walking is a natural exercise for most people , and over the last six years the Health Education Department of Lothian Health Board with the help of SHEG , and the Recreation & Leisure Departments of East Lothian , Edinburgh , Midlothian and West Lothian , have promoted this to encourage family and friends to Walkaboutabit . |
| 4 | It is because trying to give credit to this great poet commits a patriotic Englishman ( or Scotsman for that matter — Fraser is a Scot ) to very tormenting and unwelcome questions and reflections about the spiritual state of England or Scotland today , and over the last fifty years . |
| 5 | That was in 1980 , and over the last eleven years Tony Bowran 's studio has produced a continuous output of consistently high quality creative photography for many a major advertising campaign . |
| 6 | Today the big draught breeds , especially in the Massif Central , have found new roles in the beef industry and over the last few years they have been exported in increasing numbers to boost beef production in several parts of the world , sometimes displacing some of the famous traditional British beef breeds . |
| 7 | Better police equipment might lead to more offences being recorded , as might an increase in police numbers , and over the last few years there has been a recruitment drive by the police . |
| 8 | Sometimes erm given me the questions and sometimes answering the questions for me , its always informing me and over the last few years I 've erm , I said that to try and understand erm , how to use this information in my own work as , as a writer , and I see , I see parallels in all forms of art , communication is of course one , erm and the need to recognise and respond the plight of others is , is another area and the area that as a writer I 'm particularly drawn too . |
| 9 | MY wife and I joined the National Trust at Cragside in Northumberland and over the last few years have cut a pretty wide swathe through Trust properties in Northumbria , North Yorkshire , Kent , the Lake District and East Anglia . |
| 10 | The easier areas of supply are beginning to become saturated and over the last few years more effort has tended to be put into SUPPLYING gas to outlying villages which , because of the application of modern pipelaying techniques , and the subsequent reduction in unit costs , have become more attractive . |
| 11 | Arthur Andersen is downsizing and over the next two years will be replacing its Wang minicomputers with a PC-based system running Notes . |
| 12 | Arthur Andersen is downsizing , and over the next two years will be replacing its Wang Minicomputers with a PC-based system running Notes . |
| 13 | The equipment they had at Rhodes hardly justified the risks in getting ashore to use it , but the Commander had improved the original ideas and over the next two years a comprehensive yet simple range of tools would be devised for this survey work . |
| 14 | A breed society was formed in 1919 to rescue the remaining 130 cattle and over the next 70 years there was considerable out-crossing to Friesian , Jersey , Shorthorn , White Park and no doubt other breeds as well . |
| 15 | She embarked on the column in 1981 and over the next 11 years became , if hardly the guardian of people 's secrets , nonetheless a gushing fount of comforting advice . |
| 16 | No new ones were created after Pennsylvania , and over the next fifty years the government bought out most of the proprietors ' rights . |
| 17 | Helena Swanwick became a close friend of C. P. Scott [ q.v. ] and his wife Rachel , and over the next eighteen years wrote and reviewed regularly for the Manchester Guardian on domestic and feminist subjects and gardening . |
| 18 | Armed with the classic mandarin 's pedigree , he joined the Treasury in 1961 and over the next 27 years he bounced between his first department and Downing Street , with the pattern being broken only by a spell with the Bank of England and City institutions in 1969 . |
| 19 | Kuypers was the first to use this technique in studies of the brain and over the next 10 years , now in the United States , he charted at a new level of detail the connections made by the cerebral cortex with nervous elements in the brain-stem and spinal cord that control movement in a number of higher mammals . |
| 20 | Even after the failure of the rebellion its position was secure enough by 1690 for Charnock to establish a trading station fairly far up the River Hughli , on the southern edge of the Bengal cotton-weaving district , and over the next hundred years Calcutta grew to be the effective capital of India and the second city in the British Empire . |
| 21 | This process had begun when James turned his own proprietorship of New York into a royal colony on becoming king , and over the next forty years Maryland , the re-united New Jersey , and the two Carolinas all became royal colonies . |
| 22 | He went to live at Stourhead after his mother 's death in 1742 , and over the next forty years he became a discriminating collector and patron of the arts , laying the foundations of an important library , but above all he transformed the landscape at Stourhead , creating the lake and the classical temples , which so vividly recall a Claudian idyll . |
| 23 | The technique was first described in its initial format in 1985 , and over the next three years appreciation of its potential gradually became widespread . |
| 24 | The Committee for Education gave special attention to the question of college libraries and set up a working party in 1974 to advise on provision in colleges proposing to diversify their courses , and over the next three years it offered guidance on ways of assessing the quality of provision , emphasized the importance of the standing of the head of the library service or resource centre , of consultation with the library in course development , and of initiating students into making effective use of the library and learning resources . |
| 25 | This marked the completion of the country 's largest industrial project , costing some $2 billion , the Bintulu LNG project and over the next 20 years five Malaysian LNG tankers will be built . |
| 26 | Gifts from them helped eke out her limited income throughout her training and over the next several years . |
| 27 | This year , the number of cars on Britain 's roads will reach twenty million and over the next thirty-five years , that number is set to double . |
| 28 | Wade also rebuilt the existing barracks at Ruthven and Bernera , already described , and over the next ten years or so a total of more than 30 other forts to protect his new , Roman-style , network of roads . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , the donor must have been infected with the Aids virus just before his death , and over the next few years seven of his beneficiaries have become HIV positive . |
| 30 | What is the manpower requirement at present and over the next few years ? |