Example sentences of "[verb] place over the past [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Closures have been taking place over the past 10 years . |
| 2 | Europe is now experiencing the political consequences of several changes that have been taking place over the past few years . |
| 3 | The report concludes that warming of between 0.3C and 0.6C has taken place over the past 100 years , a figure which correlates with data from a range of global warming models prepared recently by climate scientists . |
| 4 | Voluntary landscape agreements have not saved acres of hedgerows , heath or woodland and even those trees that remain in lowland England are an ageing population because insufficient planting has taken place over the past thirty years . |
| 5 | Admitting that the security forces were involved in a recent wave of kidnappings and murders of students , he said that his government did not have the means to combat the activities which had taken place over the past few months , aimed at creating a climate of terror and instability in order to justify an attempt to return to the past or the installation of a president who would promise a tough policy . |