Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] over [art] [adj] " 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 | The stolen cars have been occurring now over the last year . |
| 4 | What had been happening financially over the last five or six years is unclear but in 1932 the situation was regarded as ‘ serious ’ and it was to continue so ( as with other Clubs in the Depression ) until the late 1930's . |
| 5 | 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 ) : |
| 6 | At the same time levels of public expenditure on the railways have been declining steadily over the past few years in the run-up to an expected privatisation and are now well below those of Britain 's Continental neighbours . |
| 7 | Levels of nitrates in tap water had been rising slowly over the past decade , most of it leaching into groundwater from farmers fields , where it 's used as a fertilizer . |
| 8 | Both the assets and the liabilities of the personal sector have been rising rapidly over the past ten years . |
| 9 | Wellcome shares have been performing strongly over the past year and the value of the company has almost doubled . |
| 10 | I 'm not suggesting the U.K. has been doing marvellously over the past 40 years ( compared to many other nations it has n't ) but compared to the U.S. it 's done very well indeed . |
| 11 | Thus there was a confusing number of elements on earth , above it and below it which contributed to the afterlife , representing ideas which had been brought together over a long period of time . |
| 12 | Thanks in large part to electronic paging this has been reduced significantly over the past 10 years . |
| 13 | Another major factor we need to consider for black citizens in the UK is the way in which black groups have been defined politically over the past four decades . |
| 14 | Hence the keen interest in this result and the fierceness of the battle which has been fought here over the last few weeks . |
| 15 | She noted , she said with a pained expression , that output from the UK Vehicle Division of United Motors had been falling steadily over the previous ten years . |
| 16 | It has been tailored for its purpose and has been tested extensively over the past 12 years . |
| 17 | The concluding rounds of the peace negotiations , which had been held sporadically over the past 20 months , began under UN auspices in Mexico on Nov. 25 following the declaration of a unilateral FMLN ceasefire on Nov. 16 and recommenced in New York on Dec. 16 ; Pérez de Cuéllar , whose term of office expired only a few minutes after the signature of the agreement , had made the issue of peace in El Salvador a personal crusade . |