Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun] over the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important , too , that close attention is paid to image building ( e.g. banks and insurance companies must be seen to be stable , reliable institutions , but with a friendly , non-intimidating attitude — an image which banks in particular have spent a lot of money fostering over the past decade ) . |
| 2 | Given the halving of living standards over the past year , this was an even more remarkable result . |
| 3 | The American embassy in Seoul reviewed the history of guerrilla activity over the past few years in April 1950 . |
| 4 | We have announced a number of job losses over the past 12 months which have arisen as a result of er an internal cost cutting exercise to make our research more er cost effective , and also as a result of decisions by the Government and the electricity supply industry who have cut down their funding for basic research into reactor technology . |
| 5 | Without doubt , the most important use of tax havens over the past 10 years has been to save ( or defer ) capital gains tax . |
| 6 | Psychoanalytic theory has probably been the single most important theoretical influence on the discipline of Art History over the past decade . |
| 7 | One of the unsatisfactory features of employment law over the past couple of decades has been the rule that a wrongful dismissal claim must be brought in either the County Court or the High Court . |
| 8 | THE vast majority of workers continue to receive pay rises above the inflation rate , despite a doubling in the number of pay freezes over the past year , according to a study published today , writes Keith Aitken . |
| 9 | Ballysillan Leisure Centre has had to spend over £2 , out of a budget already pared to the bone repairing windows smashed in a spate of weekend attacks over the past month . |
| 10 | Some of the most serious allegations of child torture concerned South Africa , where Koojimaans reported that " 80 to 90 per cent of children detained under State of Emergency regulations over the past five years had alleged being tortured in detention " . |
| 11 | The history of company legislation over the past century can only be understood if it is seen as an attempt to rectify the imbalance and injustice resulting from the creation of limited liability in the mid-nineteenth century . |