Example sentences of "has been [vb pp] over the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new framework of national awards in engineering has been developed over the last few years . |
| 2 | HELP has been developed over the last five years and is available to Henley programme members throughout the world . |
| 3 | Although traditional shopfronts add charm and individuality to high streets , unprecedented damage has been done over the last century . |
| 4 | The literature on accounting theory is relatively new ( the bulk of it has been generated over the last 50 years ) , and it has , until recently , been almost exclusively concerned with public limited companies ( Whittington , 1986 ) . |
| 5 | In fact although sometimes the rate of progress or the pace of technology seems sort of frustratingly slow if you look at what has actually changed , what has been achieved over the last five years , it 's quite incredible . |
| 6 | They brought him inside to erm recruit without giving him any training at all and what I do has been gained over the last twenty years of recruitment . |
| 7 | Half of India 's forest has been destroyed over the last 40 years , leaving only 10 per cent coverage . |
| 8 | Although warming has been detected over the last few decades , scientists claim that not enough is known about the natural temperature variations of the region to be able to come to any conclusions . |
| 9 | The way the work-force has been treated over the last few years , the uncertainty that 's been created and the lack of consultation , the impact on their lives of such a closure on people who have been expecting to be there until they retire — their jobs may well go , and the impact on that , both for their own lives as well as their families . |
| 10 | 8 Perhaps this offers a useful framework to think about the work that has been produced over the last quarter of a century . |