Example sentences of "and [noun pl] over [art] past " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and his mother had had many arguments and disagreements over the past few years . |
| 2 | His Chinese counterpart , Qian Qichen , described relations as having " gradually improved " following " difficulties and setbacks over the past 10 years " . |
| 3 | HP boasted that over 100 IBM customers had already offloaded or replaced applications from their mainframes over to HP business systems and servers over the past year , and quoted Dataquest figures that show 46% of mainframes sites surveyed in the process of downsizing . |
| 4 | One of the reasons for this state of affairs is the publicity that has been given to the hills by him and numerous other writers of magazine articles and books over the past 20 or 30 years . |
| 5 | Yet politically the new constellation arrived at by elections and negotiations over the past six months — a strong presidency held by Jaruzelski , a Solidarity-led ‘ grand coalition ’ government , a real parliament -is somehow working . |
| 6 | SPEAKING at the annual meeting of the Diocesan Vestment Guild following the Thanksgiving Mass in the Cathedral , Mrs Barbary Boyes , secretary and treasurer for the past 42 years , gave her account of some of the Guild 's activities and achievements over the past century . |
| 7 | Other , more conventional courses have been faced with similar challenges and restrictions over the past decade . |
| 8 | Co-ordinated attacks on security officials and politicians over the past few weeks indicate that the once-bumbling extremists are growing more sophisticated . |