Example sentences of "over the past few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If such a revolution comes about , there will doubtless be a role for the huge accelerators physicists have built to construct and test the standard model over the past few decades . |
| 2 | Over the past few decades , however , the approach to conservation and protection of our cultural heritage has changed . |
| 3 | But if we look at the chemistry and other science portrayed in comics and illustrated periodicals , we can see an interesting shift in public attitudes over the past few decades . |
| 4 | The western diet has changed dramatically over the past few decades . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Over the past few decades , the world 's demand for tin has fallen dramatically as packagers have reduced the thickness of the metal in tinplate or have turned to other materials for their containers , aluminium for instance . |
| 7 | Over the past few decades , considerable research effort and capital has been directed towards developing materials that do not cause thrombus formation when exposed to blood . |
| 8 | Over the past few decades researchers have shown that chimps can create artworks ( abstract thought ) , use tools in a quite sophisticated fashion , and understand the concept of language : humans and chimps can use sign languages like Ameslan to communicate with each other to a reasonably advanced level . |
| 9 | Very many educational reports over the past few decades have portrayed black pupils as having special needs because their cultural background is inadequate ( e.g. Rampton Report , 1981 ) . |
| 10 | In most other countries those firms employing over 1000 workers have substantially increased their share of output and employment over the past few decades , so why is Japan different ? |
| 11 | In most other countries those firms employing over 1000 workers have substantially increased their share of output and employment over the past few decades , so why is Japan different ? |
| 12 | The fact is , beneath all the nonsense about the so-called ‘ new man ’ , men and the male culture have changed dramatically over the past few decades . |
| 13 | Over the past few decades , in particular , in structuralist anthropology , psychoanalysis , and Marxist theory , there has been a major theoretical effort to challenge the naturalness of the ‘ unitary subject ’ in social theory , to see the individual as a product of social forces , an ‘ ensemble of social relations ’ , rather than as a simple natural unity . |
| 14 | An interesting speculation is that the decline in H pylori infection over the past few decades would account at least in part for the reported decline in duodenal ulcer disease in Western populations . |
| 15 | We live in a technological age , and there are going to be major changes without a doubt , we 've all seen them over the past few decades , and into the future there are going to be many major changes . |
| 16 | Over the past few games McAllister might as well stayed in bed for all he did IMHO . |
| 17 | She had n't been keeping track of the conversation , but he seemed to have pulled himself together over the past few minutes . |
| 18 | ‘ We received enough indications over the past few days that he could have gone through with it , ’ a senior spokesman said . |
| 19 | ‘ Not many of the original lot that landed at La Breche five days ago , ’ I replied , ‘ There have been a lot of casualties since the landing , many of them caused by mortar fire over the past few days . |
| 20 | The newsheet had started to appear over the past few days as the villagers began to return to their homes . |
| 21 | After all , she has been asked the question several times over the past few days and will not say yes or no . |
| 22 | BEDS are being cleared in several London hospitals because of the large increase in influenza patients in the capital over the past few days . |
| 23 | BEDS are being cleared in several London hospitals because of the large increase in flu patients in the capital over the past few days . |
| 24 | THE sickening events in Romania over the past few days now leave Albania as the last resort of old-style Stalinism . |
| 25 | Sterling lost all gains made over the past few days after the Germans cut a quarter per cent off their interest rate . |
| 26 | The Collector had sat a good deal in this chair over the past few days and it had come to affect his habits of thought . |
| 27 | My legs are shaded by the dust which has gathered over the past few days , so that the contrast is like a Coppertone ad , with the puppy pulling a little girl 's knickers off . |
| 28 | Over the past few days he had fished a little with Burkett , been to Crosthwaite Church , laid a light siege to the maid Christine , cast out a few nightlines about the town and done a calculated amount of promenading . |
| 29 | Over the past few days , however , Harry noticed that she seemed reconciled to the fact that they were fast becoming an inseparable threesome . |
| 30 | He had been very noticeably kind over the past few days : thoughtful , and seeming more mature and sensible , as though the imminence of marriage had indeed begun to bring about that change of which my elders spoke — the settling down , as it was called . |