Example sentences of "taken [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm Mr introduced the the the the the prospect that erm if they 'd have taken migration over the last three years , it would have been a much reduced figure . |
| 2 | The murder could easily have taken place over the boundary , in the Metropolitan police area . |
| 3 | Before describing the current guidelines in detail , it is worth reviewing the policy changes that have taken place over the last two decades . |
| 4 | There are various Norman features , and a number of alterations and restorations have taken place over the centuries . |
| 5 | The original school was opened in 1913 by the Sisters of Our Lady of Evron , and although many changes have taken place over the years , the school continues to thrive and would like to mark this milestone by celebrating the life of the school across the decades . |
| 6 | Our emphasis on the desirability of using the term ‘ blind ’ carefully arises from the many positive developments that have taken place over the last two decades . |
| 7 | By conceding on the timetable , O'Neill gifted the Republicans an important advantage , helping them by drastically curtailing the protracted and damaging interplay of pluralist forces that would have otherwise taken place over the budget . |
| 8 | According to Tory thinking , a successful economic miracle has taken place over the last six years . |
| 9 | Major shifts in population distribution have taken place over the two decades since the 1960s , despite the fact that the national population size is , by the 1980s , almost static . |
| 10 | Voluntary landscape agreements have not saved acres of hedgerows , heath or woodland and even those trees that remain in lowland England are an ageing population because insufficient planting has taken place over the past thirty years . |
| 11 | Looking at all selective schools together — grammar , direct grant and private — little change in inequalities has taken place over the years spanned by Halsey 's study . |
| 12 | Substantial changes in the provision of long term care for elderly people have taken place over the past decade . |
| 13 | She felt it unnecessary to mention some of the incidents that had taken place over the last few days , least of all the confrontation at the cottage the previous night . |
| 14 | It made me wonder what changes had taken place over the years with regards to the field . |
| 15 | The steady increase in goods traffic which had taken place over the century can be demonstrated by the fact that during twenty-six weeks in 1847 the London and South-Western took in £38,906.19/11d as a result of their freight traffic . |
| 16 | In Environment Issues we do n't usually have room to record every birth , marriage and death ( hatches , matches and despatches ) , however , Hygiene Leeds warrants a mention for the five marriages that have taken place over the last three months . |
| 17 | Admitting that the security forces were involved in a recent wave of kidnappings and murders of students , he said that his government did not have the means to combat the activities which had taken place over the past few months , aimed at creating a climate of terror and instability in order to justify an attempt to return to the past or the installation of a president who would promise a tough policy . |
| 18 | Some heads of department believed that the self-appraisal report was the product of departmental discussion , but that it was discussion which had taken place over the last few years rather than during the time specifically set aside for the self-appraisal . |
| 19 | OUR ‘ Open Country Free Range Chicken ’ project is one of a number of new initiatives which have taken place over the last few years in response to the dramatic structural changes ongoing in the poultry industry . |
| 20 | The report concludes that warming of between 0.3C and 0.6C has taken place over the past 100 years , a figure which correlates with data from a range of global warming models prepared recently by climate scientists . |
| 21 | And I think that the revolution in history which has taken place over the course of the last twenty-five years has been a revolution which has been fuelled by people 's curiosity to study things which previously had not been studied , rather than just to take some formal statement of what seemed to be important , which is what the chroniclers took , or some propaganda statement , which is what the Tudors took and what the seventeenth century historians took , or indeed to write very academic history , which is what professional historians have tended to do , over the course of the last erm forty or fifty years . |
| 22 | In 1949 , the Chinese Communist Party had taken control over the Chinese mainland ( AA , p. 58 ) , and the Americans had detected evidence in the atmosphere of the first known Russian A-bomb . |
| 23 | He or she had taken trouble over the arrangement of the facts and in getting in as much relevant information as possible . |
| 24 | Moreover , the political interests of Eastern Europe 's regimes have taken precedence over the economic interests of society . |
| 25 | Protests in 1371 were followed by further outbursts in 1376 in the so-called ‘ Good Parliament ’ , whose members suspected that the search for personal profit had , in some cases , taken precedence over the pursuit of the national advantage . |