Example sentences of "over the [adj] twenty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an enormous leap , which he was able to make by virtue of the professional competence and political significance he had built up over the preceding twenty years . |
| 2 | Over the ensuing twenty years the last vestiges of a rural economy were erased , while the considerable physical presence of an industrial proletariat , much of it working in large plants , became increasingly apparent . |
| 3 | His Future of Socialism in 1956 had provided a point of reference for the party , and progressives throughout the nation , over the past twenty years with its emphasis on social equality rather on public ownership as the instrument of change . |
| 4 | Take the Bunnymen , overlay every cartoon watchword in pop over the past twenty years , and you 've got — The Mighty Lemon Drops ! |
| 5 | Coal , West Germany 's only significant indigenous resource , has enjoyed two drastic changes of fortune over the past twenty years or so . |
| 6 | The most crucial change in emphasis over the past twenty years , and particularly over the past ten , has been the common rejection of any suggestion that poverty alone warranted social policy intervention based on state amelioration . |
| 7 | This process is aided and abetted by the trend over the past twenty years to encourage the active participation of fathers in the process of childbirth itself . |
| 8 | He knew from long experience that a kidnapping usually meant the involvement of the Sardinian shepherds who had , over the past twenty years or so , been steadily leaving their island and bringing their flocks to graze on the hills around Florence . |
| 9 | According to the National Federation , this was clearly evident from Labour 's record over the past twenty years : |
| 10 | The ‘ Human Resource ’ concept of man-power as the central profit-generating asset of any organisation has made some progress over the past twenty years . |
| 11 | The need for it has reduced but has not vanished over the past twenty years . |
| 12 | ‘ Over the past twenty years or so ’ , he announced in a Daily Express front-page splash , ‘ there has been a revulsion from authority and discipline … |
| 13 | Over the past twenty years , there have been many occasions when as a lecturer or Adviser , feeling uncertain about what course of action to take , I have asked myself , how would Basil respond to this situation ? |
| 14 | Rather , over the past twenty years it has created discrete areas of fashion which do not automatically seek to emulate or follow one another . |
| 15 | The blame does not , however , lie at the feet of only one government but is the result of a succession of employment , social security and housing policies over the past twenty years . |
| 16 | For one section of youth , the ‘ upwardly mobile , individualistic fraction of the ( male ) British working class ’ — epitomised by young dockers and construction workers — the restructuring of British industry over the past twenty years has produced relative prosperity . |
| 17 | A cross-section of definitions , which have appeared over the past twenty years or so , is as follows . |
| 18 | He reiterated one of the problems that dogged him throughout life , which was fatigue ; for although he had on the whole a ‘ tough ’ constitution — at least he liked to think so — and tremendous will-power , he had driven himself very hard over the past twenty years . |
| 19 | Over the past twenty years I have seen about a dozen performances of Hamlet , a play which was also constantly revived in the early seventeenth century . |
| 20 | The purpose of this project is to investigate the flows into and out of unemployment in Britain over the past twenty years . |
| 21 | One of the dominant themes in the redistribution of population in the Western World over the past twenty years or so has been the dispersal of population from large cities to medium and small-sized settlements . |
| 22 | Over the past twenty years , the rugby union has worked hard to improve safety at school level . |
| 23 | Over the past twenty years , the number who look at papers has fallen by more than a quarter . |
| 24 | In the debates over the last twenty years there has been considerable interplay of theological and sociological reasoning , with social scientists also contributing to papers and discussions . |
| 25 | But consumption does not directly create capital assets whether financed internally or externally , and investment levels in most countries have not risen significantly as a proportion of GDP in Africa over the last twenty years , and reMain 6 or 7 per cent lower than in both the rest of the developing world and in the industrialized world . |
| 26 | Leading African civil servants entrusted with the day-to-day execution of policy over the last twenty years know that these are not necessarily the major problems . |
| 27 | Over the last twenty years the starkest examples of operations cancelled , lives put at danger and waiting lists increased have been the result of industrial disputes . |
| 28 | The health service over the last twenty years has been marred by periodic pay disputes which have disrupted patient services . |
| 29 | Over the last twenty years in Britain industrial action has affected a whole range of essential services from water , electricity and fire-fighting to the Royal Mail , public transport and health . |
| 30 | I ca n't think of anywhere that the stage designs have been more consistently imaginative and beautifully realized than in Salzburg over the last twenty years . |