Example sentences of "[vb pp] over [art] past [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The need for it has reduced but has not vanished over the past twenty years . |
| 2 | While bank deposits have stagnated over the past three years , mutual funds , which are mostly outside the banks ' domain , have grown by two-thirds . |
| 3 | All the hospitals in Southampton have been rebuilt over the past few years . |
| 4 | I have been very pleased with my performance , with my success and the achievements which I have enjoyed over the past 20 years . |
| 5 | It was a black day for Chancellor Kohl whose personal popularity has been steadily eroded over the past two years and whose ability to provide the CDU with effective leadership will be questioned more seriously than before . |
| 6 | The firm 's market share in Italy 's public sector has been eroded over the past three years and he says Olivetti , unlike its principal European competitors ( Siemens-Nixdorf of Germany and Bull of France ) , has enjoyed no particular privileges in its home market . |
| 7 | Recycling programmmes have failed to prevent Europe 's cities from increasing by 13 per cent the volume of waste discarded over the past five years . |
| 8 | And I 'm sure that this report on the health action area is going to show some fairly , erm give us some fairly staggering erm revelations about about the health of Oxford citizens that 's going to surprise people at large when they find out how badly people have fared over the past ten years when we 've had the Tories in office who 've really done their very , very best to make the health divide of this country in a very poor state . |
| 9 | The increases were necessary , it was announced , because the burden of government subsidies had quadrupled over the past 10 years . |
| 10 | One of the most positive aspects of Switchboard that I 've seen over the past seven years , apart from the callers , has been the way that many of its members have continuously struggled to put their politics and convictions about gay and other rights into practice ( though some of them might not care to put it that way ) and the strength that working on it has given some people to do so elsewhere . |
| 11 | Much of Rhône-Poulenc 's effort in 199 was focused on integrated the large number of acquisitions it has made over the past five years . |
| 12 | There have been a number of studies of poverty in the UK that have been made over the past twenty-five years that have consistently indicated that a substantial minority of people may experience serious relative deprivation . |
| 13 | Mr Medley said , " This honour is a reflection of all the progress that WWF-UK has made over the past ten years , and the team that has achieved these successes . " |
| 14 | America 's share of external lending has slumped over the past eight years , to 9% , but lending from continental Europe has soared . |
| 15 | Partly because it is profitable : its pre-tax profits have tripled over the past ten years , to £604m ( $980m ) on sales of £5.6 billion ( in some 30 countries ) in the year to March 1990 . |
| 16 | Trounson says that 13 frozen embryos have been transferred over the past two years , but until this week none has been successful . |
| 17 | Eventually all the machines manufactured over the past 30 years were divided by the CCITT into three groups , imaginatively designated as Groups One , Two and Three . |
| 18 | Now operated within Effect Products , this business is still considerable , with new opportunities arising in markets in the developing world , but the product range for sales in Western Europe has been broadened over the past 10 years or so with the development of more specialized products for use , for example , in carbonless copying paper . |
| 19 | The political report to the congress , delivered on March 27 by Kaysone Phomvihane in his capacity as LPRP general secretary , said that the policy of restructuring applied over the past five years had " injected new life and a sense of flexibility " into the private and state-operated economic sectors . |
| 20 | A great deal has been said and written over the past two years about East European grandees being given back their property , but reality lags behind the talk . |
| 21 | Next up the quality ladder is desktop publishing of which much has been written over the past two years . |
| 22 | Before an audience of 5,000 at the Royal Albert Hall , Harrison performed songs he had written over the past 25 years , and some Beatles classics . |
| 23 | It may be correct that these properties would fall into this Band at 1993 values , but values have risen over the past two years ( despite national trends in house prices ) . |
| 24 | Many farms I have visited over the past 10 years have needed little more than a re-organisation of their existing system and some basic drainage alterations . |
| 25 | ‘ What we have done over the past two years is to improve on our ability to retain the ball in contact , to drive very successfully as units ( as the All Blacks found to their cost in Lille ) and to deep those drives going . |
| 26 | For instance , if people have n't exhibited management ability in what they think are the worthwhile things they 've done over the past 30 years or so , the chance of them ever being good managers is remote . |
| 27 | It is clear that a great deal of ley hunting done over the past 50 years has been hunting chance alignments . |
| 28 | What we shall do , as we have done over the past three years , is to ensure that poorer pensioners — those who have not benefited from the result of our general policies towards pensioners which have increased pensioners ' real living standards by over 34 per cent . |
| 29 | We we saw him come on against Birmingham about a month or so ago and save that penalty and it 's ironic that that 's how Nigel Spinks started at at Villa was n't it when he came on for Jimmy Rimmer and if Bosnich does the same job as what Nigel 's done over the past ten years then no one 's going to argue . |
| 30 | Statistics on school rugby accidents only have only started being collected over the past five years . |