Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] over the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cubs , all between three and seven weeks old , have been found orphaned or abandoned over the last few weeks . |
| 2 | Although , at 12% , the proportion of Catholics employed is still out of step with the Northern Ireland population , Short 's points out that it has more than doubled over the last 10 years , while the proportion of Catholic apprentices taken on has trebled to 20% . |
| 3 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
| 4 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years , with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
| 5 | ‘ Just talk to them , find out what they 've seen and heard over the last couple of weeks , ’ the DI said . |
| 6 | Millions Of Honey opened Saturday night with a sparky set of robust , melodic guitar songs that have toughened and matured over the last year of line-up shuffles , and should justly set them up for a spot of national service . |
| 7 | Defending her life and being jolted and shaken over the last few days had left her exhausted . |
| 8 | IT is a great privilege and pleasure for me to honour my old friend and colleague John Gillam , with whom I have worked and argued over the last thirty years . |
| 9 | We 've noticed that the numbers of young homeless people who are coming to see us have risen and risen over the last few months and few years . |
| 10 | These issues have been well raised and aired over the last few months I would like to now raise another issue that I do n't think has been publicized enough that is the issue of under-provision in old age . |
| 11 | First discovered in 1695 , the pavement has been repeatedly buried and re-exposed over the last three centuries . |
| 12 | The pit is now a museum where visitors can go underground and discover how miners have worked and lived over the last 200 years . |
| 13 | The programs we use to produce it have been developed and improved over the last few years . |
| 14 | Early work focused on single cell correlates of sensory stimulation in anaesthetized animals , but advances over the last twenty years have enabled us to monitor the single-cell correlates of behavioural activity in alert , freely moving animals ( O'Keefe and Nadel 1978 ; Olds et al . |
| 15 | Here McMillan 's draw weight with last stone was perfect but the stone did n't curl as expected over the last few yards . |