Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] over the past [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a remarkable series of investigations over the past four years , the MMC has examined the practices in beer , petroleum , and motor vehicle supply . |
| 2 | If we look at the development of computers over the past 30 years we see accelerated change of a phenomenal nature . |
| 3 | Councils have had an enormous amount of money through their hands , and have spent it in an equally enormous number of areas over the past 12 years . |
| 4 | Moreover , by relating this information to data on spreading rates , the directions of relative plate motions derived from the analysis of earthquakes , and palaeomagnetic evidence of continental palaeolatitudes , it has been possible to establish the direction and speed of present-day plate motions and what is probably a fairly accurate history of movements over the past 200 Ma or so ( Fig. 2.16 ) . |
| 5 | We have only to look at the disciplinary background of vice-chancellors over the past 30 years to see evidence of the modern superior position of science and technology . |
| 6 | Freeman , a BAIE member , initiated British Gas 's sponsorship of the Bobby Charlton sports school , which has enabled 10,000 youngsters all over Britain to receive free tuition in a wide range of sports over the past four years . |
| 7 | The British tendency to choose to limit the size of families over the past 20 years , and the need to move around the country in search of better job prospects , has done little to increase the sense of community and neighbourliness which once absorbed so much of the responsibility for mutual support and so-called ‘ informal ’ care in the post-war years . |
| 8 | The high seroprevalence of toxoplasma IgG among women born in Ireland compared with British born women may reflect differences in the consumption of undercooked meat or unpasteurised milk or in the use of freezers over the past 30–40 years . |
| 9 | There has been a series of decisions over the past 50 years which , although they are said to be cases of estoppel are not really such . |
| 10 | Long experience suggests that magnetic disks have seen off a long series of challenges over the past 15 years — but a review of the survival and thriving of the technology gives a very partial and inadequate view . |
| 11 | As to the enforcement of lorry weights , we have doubled the number of inspections over the past five years . |
| 12 | A review of debates over the past two or three years reveals another unusual aspect . |
| 13 | Seen from the outside the nature , and above all , the neck-breaking speed of achievements over the past two months may seem remarkable . |
| 14 | has said about most cases being unfounded though Mr McPhee does say that they ( the travellers ) do not stay on permanent sites whereas there has been a constant settlement of varying numbers of caravans over the past two years . |
| 15 | Having cut his teeth at Disney Studios , Lasseter has developed a reputation with a series of shorts over the past five years which have brought together the very best aspects of hand and computer animation , creating something quite special in the process . |
| 16 | But the ever-smiling Adams , who has been dogged by a catalogue of injuries over the past two years , was in no mood to feel sorry for himself at Party Politics ' home-coming , attended by more than 500 people in Upper Lambourn yesterday . |
| 17 | This weekend 's meeting is the latest in a series of conferences over the past two weeks during which ministers , their advisers , vice-chancellors , polytechnic directors and senior officials have been thrashing out strategies for expanding the higher education system . |
| 18 | raises yet again a problem that has been before the Court of Appeal on a number of occasions over the past 10 years or so . |
| 19 | In Newcastle a mental health consumer group has been working closely with purchasers over the past two years . |
| 20 | Many of the items are thought to have been stolen in burglaries over the past two years in the Cotswolds , Herefordshire , Worcestershire and Warwickshire.So many antiques were recovered , it took eight furniture lorries to bring them back to Cirencester . |
| 21 | Responding to a national survey which showed a modest improvement in lifestyles over the past seven years , Dr Wilde said individuals needed greater help from retailers , food producers , planners , teachers , environmental health officers and politicians . |
| 22 | The experiment has resulted from the steady progression towards each other of the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus and the azure-winged magpie Cyanopica cyana , culminating in an overlap in ranges over the past 20 years . |
| 23 | Millions of customers are still paying huge interest rates , despite Chancellor Norman Lamont 's three per cent cut in rates over the past seven weeks . |
| 24 | A 20-a-day man or woman has spent from £360 to £713 a year on fags over the past 10 years . |
| 25 | A current travelling retrospective which opened in her home town gallery and was organised by the gallery 's chief curator , Michael Aupling , includes 80 works on paper and canvas , documenting the artist 's process from sketch to oils over the past 18 years ( 1974–1992 ) . |
| 26 | In total , the group has spent £5.1m on acquisitions over the past six months , although it has retained £3m net cash . |
| 27 | The shock statistics reveal a sharp rise in drug abuse of all kinds among teenagers over the past two years . |
| 28 | Whatever the national differences , there has been a shared complaint among employees over the past 20 years , a reaction against over-structuring , over-controlling and over-integrating work in organizations . |
| 29 | One consequence of this has been a distrust of geometric intuition and the downgrading of geometry by educationalists over the past 50 years or so . |