Example sentences of "britain over the [adj] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't approve of Celtic influence on what he called " the pure springs of Anglo-Saxon democracy " , holding that most of what had gone wrong with Britain over the past thousand years or so was the fault of " Celtic individualism " . |
| 2 | Three and a half million mountain bikes have been sold in Britain over the past four years . |
| 3 | Indeed a survey found that few such sites in rural Britain over the past 45 years reached even 3000 . |
| 4 | One of the dominant social characteristics of Britain over the past fifty years has been the degree of upward social mobility of those whose parents held traditional working-class jobs . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The purpose of this project is to investigate the flows into and out of unemployment in Britain over the past twenty years . |