Example sentences of "[noun] over the [adj] decade " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rise of the international business schools over the last decades and the substantial increase in the numbers of Third World students in the universities and technical institutes of the First World have provided an ever-increasing pool of potential local employees for the TNCs , and recruitment is brisk . |
| 2 | In the following year , Maurice Peston told a committee of the House of Commons that ‘ those who doubt the innovatory possibilities of British education and the capacity of the DES and the LEAs to help things forward should study the CNAA and the polytechnics over the past decade . |
| 3 | It is important , too , that close attention is paid to image building ( e.g. banks and insurance companies must be seen to be stable , reliable institutions , but with a friendly , non-intimidating attitude — an image which banks in particular have spent a lot of money fostering over the past decade ) . |
| 4 | The estimated cost of its building maintenance over the coming decade is £10 million . |
| 5 | With luck this benign influence and economic motor could extend its benefits even deeper into the continent over the next decade . |
| 6 | One of the reasons for the improvement in pedestrian safety on the Continent over the past decade , is that the focus of traffic calming work has been on the areas where most people live , that is on existing , not new , residential areas . |
| 7 | Whilst there may well be every justification for such developments , which have been growing steadily since the 1950s but with increasing rapidity over the last decade , these emphases do undermine the notion of RBs as being wholly concerned with liberal adult education . |
| 8 | Sceptics might feel that they betrayed a lack of informed thought on the issue of objectives ; and certainly a good deal of the time of the economic planners , the Treasury , the Ministry and the industry over the following decades was to be devoted to the search for more meaningful objectives and standards of performance to supplement these minimal statutory requirements . |
| 9 | It would perhaps be putting too much faith in the chain of causation to argue that pit closures and decline in the coal industry over the past decade had anything to do with England 's failure with the new ball . |
| 10 | Yet the current momentum of industrial development is expected to result in the disappearance of no less than 20,000 species of plants and animals over the next decade . |
| 11 | Such traits are widely distributed in the general population and , as considerable research over the past decade has shown , are easily measurable with self-rating questionnaires , of which there are now very many . |
| 12 | Research over the past decade has led to remarkable advances in our understanding of these acid-base transport systems and has established that they have several major physiological roles . |
| 13 | The forum will draw on experience of people who have worked within the industry as commissioning editors , producers and directors over the last decade . |
| 14 | THE coming of age of Regional Railways as a fully-fledged business within British Rail is expected to trigger investment in signalling equipment over the next decade . |
| 15 | DESMOND DOUGLAS , 36 , a legend in British table tennis over the past decade has moved up a place to No 3 on the new England men 's ranking list , writes John Woodford . |
| 16 | The second technical advance that has improved the performance of tokamaks over the past decade has been in auxiliary heating . |
| 17 | If it is the latter , then we are seeing a constant rate of rape over the last decade but where women are more willing to make legal complaints and the police and courts not willing to convict other than a very small increase in the number . |
| 18 | Thanks to their efforts we can look forward to achieving at least another five million tonnes over the next decade ’ . |
| 19 | There is some way to go : in fact , BIS Strategic Decisions has estimated that $50bn plus will be invested in Eastern European telecommunications over the next decade — and that estimate excludes the former Soviet Union . |
| 20 | Ciba Geigy had invested heavily in personal and team development traininng over the past decade and the benefits can be seen among all the changes . |
| 21 | Transition from school to adult and working life has been receiving increased attention in most developed countries over the last decade . |
| 22 | Economic orthodoxy over the past decade has rightly stressed the role of the private sector in development . |
| 23 | It has been the most successful new beer product launched in the UK off-trade over the last decade . |
| 24 | The main controversy in British public libraries over the past decade has concerned choices between different types of user . |
| 25 | We have played a decisive part in the development of the Community over the past decade . |
| 26 | This would be sufficient to allow the government to open 160 new waste treatment plants over the next decade , and to close down all the existing 6,700 public tips . |
| 27 | The desirability of continued economic growth has been raised by a number of economists over the past decade and the titles of their publications make their conclusions clear — Does Money Buy Happiness ? |
| 28 | If confirmed by longitudinal analysis this would indicate that the ageing of the population over the next decade need not automatically bring an increase in the number of people with health problems and who require care . |
| 29 | What can we expect from a Government who are dismantling quality training in the construction industry and whose record on training boards over the past decade has been one of failure ? |
| 30 | This involved an attempt to accurately define the organisational and administrative needs of business over the next decade and , within this context , to draw up a taxonomy of secretarial skills suitable for this environment . |