Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the changes over the previous decade , a further review of the size and distribution of the Leicestershire residential care sector was considered to be essential both to set an information baseline before the implementation of the National Health Service and Community Care Act and to document changes in the demography and levels of dependency of the residential care population . |
| 2 | This works out at 1,460 rupees a year for a rickshaw worth just 2,000 , so he could have bought ten rickshaws with the money he has given the owner over the last 15 years . |
| 3 | It has to be admitted that Shaw 's plays have not claimed the stage over the past few years — until recently , that is . |
| 4 | As part of a cost-cutting exercise , Sir John Egan , chief executive of BAA , the airports , property and retailing group , has slashed the workforce over the last two years by 20% , kissing goodbye to many of its white collar workers . |
| 5 | Being harder and more durable , they also have withstood the elements over the many centuries that have passed since their arrival , while their softer plinths have been eroded by wind and rain and frost , leaving unaffected only those parts actually under the ‘ umbrella ’ protection of the boulders above . |
| 6 | STRINDBERG 'S Miss Julie ranks among the most tiresome female characters to have trod the boards over the last 100 years or so . |
| 7 | This book is about that conflict of values , the efforts made in the last few years to come to terms with that conflict , and its implication for one of the major issues of our time — the reshaping of our farm policy , which , with the single aim of increased food production , has transformed the countryside over the last forty years in what is perhaps the greatest agricultural revolution since the settling of England began . |
| 8 | Not only have Down and Donegal shown the way over the past couple of years but they have helped to generate tremendous interest in gaelic football . |
| 9 | I began by noting that in 1987 building societies were at the forefront of financial sector reporting , but the influence , in particular , of the EC has narrowed the gap over the past five years , so that the rules applicable to banks ( The Companies Act 1985 ( Bank Accounts ) Regulations 1991 ) and building societies ( the 1992 regulations ) are now very much in line . |
| 10 | This will be familiar to anyone who has followed the debates over the last few years concerning the ordination of women within the Anglican Church . |
| 11 | The coming of new and dramatic types of treatment , however , only heightened rather than diminished the controversy over the old hospitals . |
| 12 | We could next look at the numbers of designers who have left the company over the previous 12 months by reasons for leaving ( figure 10 ) . |
| 13 | COSLA has also warned the Government over the recent policy announcement on teaching foreign languages in all primary schools . |
| 14 | By the end of 1941 it looked as though the Communists and their supporters had established the monopoly over the Left for which they had been striving since their foundation . |