Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] over the past [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks largely to our supporters around the world , we in UNICEF have put everything we can into our worldwide immunisation programme over the past few years . |
| 2 | You did n't have to be an angry young man to look around the car industry over the past few weeks and despair of ever hearing any good news . |
| 3 | In keeping with that statement growth in undergraduate numbers over the past few years has been less than 1 per cent a year . |
| 4 | Despite all his dissembling about any new industry alliances over the past few months , Carlo de Benedetti told Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's annual meeting that he had been negotiating with Digital Equipment Corp , and revealed details of the alliance . |
| 5 | The major prospecting and proposed mining projects over the past few years , the third wave , have been met by community investigation and , eventually , resistance . |
| 6 | The American embassy in Seoul reviewed the history of guerrilla activity over the past few years in April 1950 . |
| 7 | All the same , rumblings of discontent have been detectable around Wantage Road over the past few weeks , prompting conjecture over a parting of the ways between Northamptonshire and their prized import , even though his contract still has a year to run . |
| 8 | " Of the new designers who have emerged at the Milan fairs over the past few years , Borek Sipek has one of the most distinctive and personal visions " — Deyan Sudjic , BLUEPRINT , November 1988 . |
| 9 | An interesting speculation is that the decline in H pylori infection over the past few decades would account at least in part for the reported decline in duodenal ulcer disease in Western populations . |
| 10 | Could you just give me an impression of what 's happened in the aviation industry over the past few weeks , because I think I am right in saying that the number of people flying actually has been drastically reduced . |
| 11 | The spate of major medical and nutritional reports published by governments and health authorities over the past few years has more than confirmed this suspicion . |
| 12 | William Waldegrave , Secretary of State for Health , has shown himself to be no friend of the tobacco industry over the past few weeks . |
| 13 | I do n't think I 'll bother to answer the remarks that others need to say of course tremendous resources have gone into the health service over the past few years , but I think whatever government is in power , it will never be enough for all the new developments in the health service , and that is always the trouble , whoever would be there would find it difficult . |
| 14 | The accelerated trade growth pattern over the past few years was explained in terms of such factors as ( i ) faster technological innovation ; ( ii ) an increased tendency towards mergers , joint production , technology sharing and market agreements ; ( iii ) a " quantum leap " in the interdependence of national financial markets ; ( iv ) the " improved " functioning of markets through deregulation and denationalization ; and ( v ) falling oil prices . |
| 15 | Members of Darlington recreation committee yesterday heard how more than £3,500 worth of damage had been caused to art works in the Myles Meehan Gallery over the past few months . |
| 16 | ‘ Not many of the original lot that landed at La Breche five days ago , ’ I replied , ‘ There have been a lot of casualties since the landing , many of them caused by mortar fire over the past few days . |
| 17 | A consistently competitive rate is part of the deal , and one need only look at Abbey National 's interest rates over the past few years . |