Example sentences of "[vb pp] over [art] previous [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was suggested that too much VAT had been claimed over the previous two years . |
| 2 | It was suggested that too much VAT had been claimed over the previous two years . |
| 3 | The Unity Campaign could hardly avoid the accusation that it was creating a new organization to invite Labour Party members to work together with Communists , which every Labour Conference decision had forbidden over the previous ten years . |
| 4 | ( ii ) In addition , the details of training courses applicants have attended over the previous three years will be used as background information and will be relevant to demonstrate interest in medical negligence litigation , commitment and willingness to learn . |
| 5 | This was not a controlled trial but a retrospective assessment of the patients seen over the previous seven years . |
| 6 | By 1914 the number of Chinese boarding houses was reckoned over the previous few years to have increased by stages from 13 to 300 to 400 . |
| 7 | It so happens that this rate is exactly the output of the building industry , averaged over the previous three years . |
| 8 | At the first meeting in the department I did what every other Transport Minister appears to have done over the previous ten years : I hired Professor Sir Alec Cairncross to advise me . |
| 9 | The confrontation was symbolic of the accelerating polarization which had occurred over the previous five years , with the Popular Front calling for a determined re-application of the policies of 1931–3 and the right for radical constitutional revision . |
| 10 | They stated that 27,000 million Saudi riyals ( approximately US$8,000 million ) had been spent over the previous seven years to improve facilities for pilgrims . |
| 11 | These more loyal long service employees had an intuitive feeling that the division would ultimately go out of business in the UK if it continued to operate in the way it had behaved over the previous ten years . |
| 12 | Speedy success was essential , since records gathered over the previous 80 years showed that at best only three weeks of rain-free weather could be expected at that time of the year . |
| 13 | The school librarian is provided with a monthly total of items borrowed over the previous two years and a running total of items on loan to each year group . |
| 14 | The economic programme presented in February , which relaxed the monetarist controls implemented over the previous two years and sought to lift the economy out of recession by investing in state enterprises and boosting imports [ see pp. 38774-75 ] , was rejected by the Sejm ( lower house of parliament ) on March 5 by 171 votes to 138 with 38 abstentions . |
| 15 | The share and rate of profit and the accumulation rate more or less stabilized at the very high levels established over the previous six years . |