Example sentences of "[noun pl] over the [adj] ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Mr Shawcross , chairman of the examination board of the NUT , offered a similar contribution : he spoke of the " revolutionary change " in the teaching of English in elementary schools over the previous ten years , and he went on ( in the words of the bulletin report ) to give " his experience of Manchester children under the old system " : |
| 2 | Central government has sunk over 1,200 waterholes in southern and western provinces over the last ten years , and continues to sink about 150 boreholes a year in Lusaka alone . |
| 3 | Well now the third factor , Greater York , has probably been the single most important planning issue for the county council and the Greater York districts over the past ten years . |
| 4 | The principal feature of population redistribution revealed by the 1980/81 round of Censuses in advanced Western countries was a massive shift from the larger cities to smaller settlements and remoter rural areas over the previous ten years . |
| 5 | People want to spend their day forgetting about hard times — even if they pay it off in instalments over the next ten years . |
| 6 | But the system does not , so far , recognise brain injury , despite the enormous advances over the past ten years in the study of cognitive , behavioural and memory problems . ’ |
| 7 | In March 1987 a new rule was introduced , whereby anyone with earnings of more than £100,000 who joined a new pension scheme was required to base their final salary assessment on their average earnings over any three consecutive years over the last ten . |
| 8 | Closer to home is the trauma faced by social workers over the last ten years . |
| 9 | I 've taken eight antidepressants over the last ten years , Prozac has n't been one of them I must admit . |
| 10 | There have been an enormous series of changes over the last ten or fifteen years , and maybe some school teachers would be glad if it slowed down a little bit to make their life a little easier , I do n't know . |
| 11 | This led into a technical and commercial appraisal of European competition and the anticipated market changes over the next ten years . |
| 12 | The average price paid by industrial and commercial consumers declined only slightly if at all in real terms over the first ten years of nationalisation , but electricity usage in industry was probably less price-elastic than in most uses , and other factors were the main stimuli to sales growth . |
| 13 | The scepticism is born out of two small signs over the last ten years . |
| 14 | One explanation for the ethical crisis comes when people are asked about the standing of leading institutions over the past ten years . |
| 15 | There has been a plethora of books on country houses over the last ten years , but author and illustrator Peter Morter and Brian Delf , have found a new and intriguing approach . |
| 16 | The County Council took into account a wide range of considerations , in including the the information that came through from the local plan authorities , in the preparation of their local plans over the past ten years or more . |
| 17 | Tomorrow night we turn our attention to a decade of entertainment , a review of some of Central 's other programmes over the past ten years . |
| 18 | Several members of the Group are convinced that connection is essential to facilitate the development of our scientific and information systems over the next ten years . |
| 19 | Actor , author and director of multi-media events over the last ten years , Ricardo Mosner has concentrated mainly on painting , sculpture and graphic art . |
| 20 | The conductor Richard Hickox writes : I had the pleasure of working with Alfreda Hodgson on numerous occasions over the last ten years . |