Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] over the [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is amazing , therefore , is that the agency that has the responsibility for this programme — Milton Keynes Development Corporation — has been largely wound down over the past few years and the remainder of it will cease to exist in 1992 . |
| 2 | Thus , research carried out over the past few years indicates that the traits described above actually overlap considerably with those found in so-called ‘ schizotypal ’ individuals , i.e. People whose temperamental make-up seems similar to that underlying schizophrenia , continuous with it in the personality domain but without any obvious signs of psychotic illness . |
| 3 | Maintenance and improvement works have been carried out over the past few months resulting in the first Sunday train leaving at 5pm . |
| 4 | This area of planning has grown tremendously over the past few years , fuelled by the accounting discussion over brand valuation . |
| 5 | ‘ We have expanded rapidly over the past few years and have now outgrown our existing factory , ’ said David Gray , chairman and managing director of the Saltofix Group . |
| 6 | This illness , a recurrence of the same symptoms ( violent colic , with spells of vomiting and attacks of fever ) that he had suffered intermittently over the past few years , was a sombre presage of his final illness , now only two years away . |
| 7 | In fact the numbers of female motorists has risen sharply over the past few years and since 1987 the number has almost doubled . |
| 8 | This point has now been made frequently over the past few years , as for instance in this passage from the Gulbenkian Report , The Arts in Schools ( 1982 ) : |
| 9 | Labour leaders had done well over the past few years to present themselves in Washington as solid members of the alliance and as social democrats more than socialists . |
| 10 | This means that prices have risen considerably over the past few months — a very good reason for looking at alternatives to champagne . |
| 11 | The moment for bargain hunters to enter the market was ideal as the FTSE had slipped sharply over the past few days . |
| 12 | A great deal of work has gone on over the past few months . |
| 13 | The number of applications based on this ground has increased alarmingly over the past few years . |
| 14 | The number of applications based on this ground has increased alarmingly over the past few years . |
| 15 | All that can sensibly be said is that , given everything capitalism had gone through over the previous few years , a collapse of confidence was to be expected at some point . |
| 16 | Now , our understanding of this relationship has increased dramatically over the past few years and our knowledge of new vessel formation or angiogenesis has also increased . |
| 17 | These numbers have increased considerably over the past few years , partly because income support is available to help cover the fees of residential and nursing home care , and money to pay for care at home is not easily available . |
| 18 | It is difficult to see how unrepresented claimants who fare so badly in tribunals of first instance could expect to fare better at the appellate level ; indeed representation has increased considerably over the past few years . |
| 19 | The higher income of married couples and men living alone was the combined result of the continued involvement of men in the labour market after the statutory retirement age , although this had decreased sharply over the previous few years , and of the receipt of occupational pensions . |
| 20 | The western diet has changed dramatically over the past few decades . |
| 21 | The fact is , beneath all the nonsense about the so-called ‘ new man ’ , men and the male culture have changed dramatically over the past few decades . |
| 22 | The pattern of wine drinking in Northern Ireland has changed dramatically over the past few years , said Mr Jamet . |