Example sentences of "in [noun prp] over [art] past " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Bush and Gen Powell insisted that the 12,000 extra troops deployed in Panama over the past 48 hours would be withdrawn ‘ as soon as possible ’ . |
| 2 | THE sickening events in Romania over the past few days now leave Albania as the last resort of old-style Stalinism . |
| 3 | My aims were to record the time distribution of night visits and to show the trend in claims in Berkshire over the past 10 years after adjusting for the change in claimable hours . |
| 4 | Mr Shaban told AIBS representatives of the difficulties he had experienced in establishing Amnesty pre-groups in Gaza over the past three years . |
| 5 | By looking at events that have taken place in Leicestershire over the past 90 years , this project aims to build up a picture of the long-term changes that have taken place in the levels and patterns of violence in various spheres of social life . |
| 6 | The latest incident follows 24 attacks — one fatal — in Hampshire over the past year . |
| 7 | A French Basque , Henri Parot , arrested at a routine roadblock outside Seville on April 2 with 300 kg of explosives in his car , admitted that he was the leader of the " itinerant commando " of the Basque separatist organization ETA which had killed at least 33 people in Spain over the past 12 years , including Gen. Victor Lago Roman in Madrid in 1982 [ see p. 32803 ] and the Madrid prosecutor Carmen Tagle on Sept. 12 , 1989 . |
| 8 | What is being suggested is a softening of the hard line taken by the Tories in Scotland over the past five years in the use of political patronage . |
| 9 | I write that the paradox is apparent because there have been signs of the same phenomenon in England over the past few seasons — and also because it is not at all surprising when you come to think about it . |
| 10 | Erskine , long resident in Stockholm , is known for the warm , humane domestic , public and commercial buildings he has designed in Sweden over the past 50 years . |
| 11 | I join the House in expressing sympathy to the families who have been so griveously bereaved through this tragedy , a tragedy that has been the experience of so many of the British people in Ulster over the past 20 years . |
| 12 | Kavos has been the fastest developing resort in Corfu over the past two years and now has more bars , tavernas and discos than just about anywhere else on the island . |
| 13 | THE STORY of vertebrate life in Britain over the past 2 million years or so is fascinating . |
| 14 | Given the number of prominent cases of judicial error in Britain over the past few years — Guildford Four , Birmingham Six , Stefan Kiszcko , the Tottenham Three and Judith Ward — it is not an abstract question . |
| 15 | In fact , as we shall see , employers in the USA — particularly in the manufacturing sector where enterprise-level bargaining and large corporations predominate — have felt less need for association with other employers for negotiating purposes , while in Britain over the past two decades there has been a trend towards the adoption of company-centred industrial relations policies rather than continued adherence to the norms laid down by an association . |
| 16 | To understand the significance of these most recent changes , it is first necessary to review the main trends in social mobility in Britain over the past fifty years , before considering those developments that have become more marked since the mid-1970s . |
| 17 | What is certain , however , is that these structural and geographical changes in the population have , in combination , produced a profound transformation in the population size and composition of most places in Britain over the past two decades . |
| 18 | If one looks across the channel , as some of us have , and sees the way in which the matter is approached there , it is humiliating to consider what has gone on in Britain over the past few years . |
| 19 | Data processing has been a key employment growth area in Britain over the past decade . |
| 20 | The purpose of this project is to investigate the flows into and out of unemployment in Britain over the past twenty years . |
| 21 | Three and a half million mountain bikes have been sold in Britain over the past four years . |
| 22 | Foreign businesses , which have invested heavily in Britain over the past few years , were not left out yesterday . |
| 23 | Pat Keen has spearheaded the growth of Medau in CORNWALL over the past few years as well as organising our display at the Cornwellian Exhibition . |
| 24 | Although there has probably been a long-term decline in serious violence in Europe over the past several centuries , the relationship of this trend to patterns of theft and other property crime , or to broad forces of social change , remains obscure . |
| 25 | Second , to analyse the impact of minority political activity on politics and policy-making in Birmingham over the past three decades , particularly in terms of electoral politics , decision making and policy change . |
| 26 | The acute shortages of public funds for basic education in Zambia over the past decade have led to an increasing reliance on external aid to finance educational initiatives . |
| 27 | SOMALIA : Clan warfare and anarchic violence have led to the deaths of more than 10,000 people in Somalia over the past 18 months , according to an Amnesty International report , Somalia : A Human Rights Disaster , published on 5 August . |
| 28 | Rosemary teaches people with learning difficulties at Oulton Broad while Marlene has taught many classes in Suffolk over the past 20 years ( including 50+ groups ) , assisted with the Norfolk Training Course , and has brought several teams of class members to perform items at our Annual Reunions . |
| 29 | Office rents have soared in London over the past couple of years but political factors are also significant as government departments make up more than a quarter of moves . |
| 30 | Sir Hugh , in his first major interview for 12 months , said the 15 bombs the IRA has detonated in London over the past few weeks were comparatively minor . |