Example sentences of "[noun] over the past few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks largely to our supporters around the world , we in UNICEF have put everything we can into our worldwide immunisation programme over the past few years . |
| 2 | I wish he would keep his eyes off me , Laura thought grimly , feeling certain that she must have experienced almost a lifetime 's amount of tension over the past few days . |
| 3 | Frankie Parks ' side 's performances over the past few weeks will be envied by Blues ' boss Trevor Anderson . |
| 4 | I believe that our pensioners have had a very poor deal over the past few years — |
| 5 | Some 75 per cent of Perkins ' UK production is shipped overseas , and the company has picked up four Queen 's Awards for export over the past few years . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've been deluged with stories about the American nuclear industry over the past few years . |
| 7 | You did n't have to be an angry young man to look around the car industry over the past few weeks and despair of ever hearing any good news . |
| 8 | William Waldegrave , Secretary of State for Health , has shown himself to be no friend of the tobacco industry over the past few weeks . |
| 9 | Could you just give me an impression of what 's happened in the aviation industry over the past few weeks , because I think I am right in saying that the number of people flying actually has been drastically reduced . |
| 10 | Shipwreck treasure ( in particular porcelain ) has proved a strong seller at auction over the past few years , witness the Nanking cargo of 150,000 pieces sold in 1986 for £10.1 million . |
| 11 | Research over the past few years has led me to observe elsewhere ( Cartwright , 1984 ) that in education in general — and arts education is no different in this respect — assessment comes in all forms and guises , and that the type of assessment practised is dependent upon the reasons for its use . |
| 12 | This area has seen much urban renewal over the past few years , with £6 million spent on rebuilding and refurbishment programmes . |
| 13 | The Worldwide Fund for Nature is , of course , just one part of a huge international Green Movement , in which we have seen massive increases in the number of supporters over the past few years . |
| 14 | I am sure that we all want to pass on our good wishes to his wife and family after their terrible ordeal over the past few months . |
| 15 | The information area is another instance where RMI has become entangled and confused with a number of information initiatives in the NHS over the past few years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Members of Darlington recreation committee yesterday heard how more than £3,500 worth of damage had been caused to art works in the Myles Meehan Gallery over the past few months . |
| 18 | Mailer 's press and public appearances over the past few years had shown a tendency , much like everyone else 's , to be a bit — well — paparazzi -orientated . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've seen a big rise in unfurnished lettings over the past few months , ’ she says . |
| 20 | Jackson , Mississippi-based LDDS Communications Inc , Metromedia Communications Corp and Resurgens Communications Group Inc have now reached the letter of intent stage in their plan to merge with LDDS shareholders retaining about 68.5% of the combined company and John Kluge , chairman of Metromedia , expected to be chairman of the combined company with Bernard Ebbers , LDDS chief executive , taking that post ; the combined company will be the fourth largest long-distance carrier in the US , a title that has been held by a whole string of companies over the past few years . |
| 21 | By this time I was becoming a little dissatisfied with the imprinting set-up that had become the stock in trade of my lab over the past few years , and I planned to try using an alternative form of learning in the chick . |
| 22 | ‘ Having said that , we have managed to carve out more and more independence over the past few years . |
| 23 | Frequent sales from central banks over the past few years have barely eaten into stocks . |
| 24 | His parents had detected a smell in the room over the past few weeks and had noticed a damp patch . |
| 25 | ‘ Ashley was disappointed to be left out and felt that his record over the past few seasons was good enough for him to have kept his place . |
| 26 | Strategies for integrating data reported at different geographical scales and for different map projections have received considerable attention over the past few decades ( Robinson et al. 1984 ; Burrough 1986 ) . |
| 27 | Other polls have been published in the newspapers , however , and the issue has gained a good deal of attention over the past few weeks . |
| 28 | Five members of WACC 's General Secretariat staff have assumed new responsibilities over the past few weeks . |
| 29 | One of the most exciting developments in biology over the past few years has been the identification of the specific genes that allow some viruses to cause cancer . |
| 30 | This is , of course , symptomatic of the rapid move over the past few years away from a consensus-based approach to education policy making towards one based on central autonomy . |