Example sentences of "[noun sg] over the [adj] ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make arrangements satisfactory to patients and staff locally for the closure over the next ten years or so of those mental illness hospitals which are not well placed to provide a service reaching out into the community and are already near the end of their useful life . |
| 2 | The contribution which adults other than teachers , both employers and trade unionists , can make to the school curriculum has gained widespread recognition over the past ten years , through the activities of the SCIP , the Royal Society of Arts Industry Year ( 1986 ) , and the more recent DTI initiatives . |
| 3 | Because of the political impasse over the past ten years Cambodia , one of the poorest countries in the world , has received no UN development aid , nor any bilateral or multilateral development aid from the UK . |
| 4 | A shift in the financial management of football over the last ten years has brought a new and more aggressive generation of directors to the forefront of the game . |
| 5 | All the medical research over the past ten years has linked early sex with the onset of cervical cancer , a potential killer . |
| 6 | He believes the government has generally down-graded people working in the public services sector over the last ten years , with university teachers having fared particularly badly as far as pay is concerned . |
| 7 | Mr , er a moment ago congratulated the County Council in fact on the success of the strategy in reducing migration over the last ten years or so . |
| 8 | In a review of its work over the first ten years , its chairman , Lord Justice Sellers , claimed that the two institutions ‘ worked side by side in complete harmony and with some mutual assistance ’ . |
| 9 | Having researched extensively into critical writings on Thomas since the publication of the first edition , Anstey has retained seven of the original essays , adding a further seven to give a comprehensive collection reflecting some reappraisal of Thomas 's writings and also responses to new work over the past ten years . |
| 10 | Of course , Hodder 's table reflects a concept very close to the familiar annuity-depreciation method — the only difference being that the latter method would spread depreciation over the full ten years of the asset 's life . |
| 11 | Quoted in an interview in Pravda , Konovalov said that his ministry was set to triple output by 2000 , adding an extra 19,600 megawatts of capacity over the next ten years . |
| 12 | One big piece of deregulation over the past ten years will be hard to reverse : the freeing of interest rates . |
| 13 | As anyone who has n't been in a media-induced coma over the last ten years knows , her trite ditties are irrelevant to the story — IM |
| 14 | I want to welcome obviously particularly er the order relating to Wales because it confers on Wales er one additional seat , giving us five altogether because of the rise in the Welsh population over the last ten years and that er although Wales was under represented under the previous erm er you know distribution of seats which gave us only four we will be slightly over represented when we have five because you simply ca n't have four and a half seats , it 's got to be one or the other but since the Welsh population is continuing to rise very rapidly then it is likely that that will be put right . |
| 15 | First , there has been a high degree of parallel and interactive effort by scientific , political and public information initiative over the last ten years . |
| 16 | The changing role of the governing body was also perceived as a key issue : as one head put it , ‘ There could be conflict over the next ten years as the governing bodies try to claim their legal rights and powers from the professionals . ’ |
| 17 | Many of the significant trends in Spanish art over the last ten years are represented : the return to expressionism of Sicilia , Sevilla and Barcelo , the lyrical style of Campano and Broto , the monumental sculpture of Susana Solano and the geometrical works of Sergi Aguilar , not forgetting the surrealist objects of Pepe Espaliu and the metaphysical inspiration of Dis Berlin . |
| 18 | Mr and Mr , quite rightly as a matter of fact , suggest that er most of the employment development over the last ten years has taken place on the north side of York . |
| 19 | Shortly after the US trip , at a meeting of OAS ministers at punte del Este in Uruguay , Castro made an appeal for US$30 billion for Latin American development over the next ten years . |
| 20 | The NHS is one of the main election issues for Lynne , who says she has seen many changes in the service over the last ten years . |
| 21 | Laurent died at the height of his powers in 1853 , but his ideas slowly gained ground over the next ten years . |
| 22 | His images have appeared again and again in the magazine over the last ten years ( the most recent was on the cover of the cancer issue ) . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's being done in tandem with academic research into British production , distribution and exhibition over the past ten years . |
| 24 | So far we 've looked at the news over the past ten years . |
| 25 | The failure to produce one is naturally laid at the door of the government which has progressively weakened regional strategic planning over the past ten years , but it is also undeniable that any large scale infrastructure programme would produce massive public opposition . |
| 26 | My own personal experience over the past ten years belies this . |
| 27 | And er certainly in teaching there 's been quite a big change over the last ten years in the way that people perceive retirement . |
| 28 | The medium-term one I would say is to do with broadly the attitudes of society towards education , and those attitudes have in fact undergone a fairly substantial change over the last ten years or so . |
| 29 | Economists should look ahead and use both micro- and macroeconomics to throw light , for example , on ‘ how , where , and in what form ’ the workers released by technological progress over the next ten years will be employed . |
| 30 | But that is the risk one runs when , as has been the case over the last ten years , one feels duty-bound to give an immediate account of what is going on , without distancing oneself sufficiently from the subject matter . |