Example sentences of "over the years " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason the campaigning elements of the organization — and that includes many of the 80,000 British members who undertake to be active on Amnesty 's behalf — have increased and refined their methods over the years . |
| 2 | The results of this process can be read in detail in catalogues raisonnés , which often give a blow-by-blow account of the arguments of scholars over the years . |
| 3 | This is reminiscent of the sort of inversion a fault-finding literary criticism can produce — which is not to deny , which is indeed to admit , that the Arab leaders and polemicists of the region have had their faults , including some of those which have been identified over the years by Commentary . |
| 4 | Has the position of the director changed in theatre for you over the years ? |
| 5 | These were used copiously over the years of Stormont rule . |
| 6 | The ambiguity present in O'Connell has arguably aided catholic nationalists over the years in the justification of their policies . |
| 7 | The sense of solidarity has developed and hardened over the years . |
| 8 | Brothers Walter and Franco and sister Marilisa have steadily improved the quality of their wine over the years . |
| 9 | And , somehow , my savings , carefully built up over the years , were starting to run dry . |
| 10 | Over the years , Anne had put up with an awful lot from me and she had now finally decided she could n't take it any more . |
| 11 | Over the years there have been a number of fatal towplane accidents caused by gliders getting too high and jerking the towplane into a steep dive . |
| 12 | Over the years there have been innumerable accidents and incidents caused by the airbrakes opening in flight . |
| 13 | In effect this was a period of withdrawal from a rigidly structured police world to a world turned upside down ; where , in a ‘ counter-cultural ’ way , we were to find that the strict terms of reference we had carefully built up over the years no longer seemed to have relevance . |
| 14 | Over the years I watched as senior officers struggled to come to terms with our bizarre presence , which overcame any respect they might have had for our practical mastery of dealing with a world they were wary of . |
| 15 | Over the years , over coffee , lunch , drinks now and then , she found out more : yes to straight , yes to married , but divorced for some fifteen years . |
| 16 | Montreal is an unusual city , made up of 50 villages which have grown and merged together over the years to form the modern conurbation : about 100 square kilometres in size ( 60 square miles ) , encircled by the St. Lawrence River . |
| 17 | Then I took off my little gold earrings and felt in the folds of my dress for all the money I 'd saved or stolen from my brother 's pockets over the years , and placed both the money and earrings in the palm of her hand , forcing her fingers shut around them . |
| 18 | Few have done more over the years to encourage and inspire the growth and development of tennis by putting it on as professional footing as possible . |
| 19 | Over the years , Mr Chatrier has had his enemies and critics . |
| 20 | Over the years , most of the players I have taught at all levels have benefitted from sensible practice , that is , well-organised drilling . |
| 21 | I have no doubt that dedicated woodturners everywhere would scoff at the idea of engineers ' lathes being used for woodturners , but when I think of the various moulds and patterns I have made over the years with comparative ease but which due to their intricacies could only have been made with extreme difficulty on a wood lathe — if at all . |
| 22 | Over the years I have had all sorts of lighter weight machines and I have gradually replaced them with either Wadkin or Robinson versions . |
| 23 | I have done certain repairs over the years , but much is still original , and though the marquetry is lifting it remains a beauty . |
| 24 | Over the years it has produced a wide-ranging series of reports on abuses of power by the national brewers , many of which have led to action by central government . |
| 25 | ‘ These are dishes we have adapted over the years to be vegan but are also the authentic tastes of , chiefly , Malaysia but Vietnam , Cambodia and Singapore as well , ’ Rex said . |
| 26 | Over the years , he has used it for many successful d-i-y projects . |
| 27 | Florrie , 85 , well known for her rescue work with Greyhounds , lost her many coursing trophies collected over the years . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've got nothing to show for what I 've won over the years , ’ a distraught Florrie said . |
| 29 | The names of Robert Graves , W.H. Auden , and Christopher Isherwood may serve to remind us of English writers who seem to have reached the same dismaying conclusion over the years since . |
| 30 | But in any case , the best proof of the pudding is in the eating — by which I mean that any one who has tried to help young poets over the years , whether in Britain or America , knows that Ford 's and the imagists ' precepts about diction are what most of them most need to learn — no novelty , after all , since they can learn the same lessons from the preface to Lyrical Ballads , if they choose to . |