Example sentences of "over the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the last three years , our volunteers have provided much love and care to many hurt and lonely people . |
| 2 | Travelling to several countries over the last year , has brought it home to me how disastrous are the effects , worldwide , of the virus causing AIDS . |
| 3 | In London , demand for our Home Care services doubled over the last twelve months . |
| 4 | I am pleased to report further extensions of home care over the last year to meet the growing needs in Glasgow and also to cover a greater area of the South Coast and the East Midlands . |
| 5 | Over the last year we have moved therefore from care support to urgent training of Romanian people who can then become effective educators . |
| 6 | Over the last year ACET 's centres in Dundee , Edinburgh and Glasgow have been asked to care for a growing number needing practical help to stay at home . |
| 7 | Over the last year , 24,000 pupils attended ACET class presentations , as against 14,500 in 1989/90 . |
| 8 | In Benenson 's words : ‘ The gradual change over the last 30 years in the public perception of the value of human life is a measure of Amnesty 's influence . |
| 9 | The ground has been thoroughly explored over the last 250 years , which is one estimate of the span of art critical and art historical activity . |
| 10 | Eighty years does n't seem a very long time when you consider the art of acting has been prospering in Europe over the last four hundred or so years , quite apart from the great traditions of ancient Greek drama . |
| 11 | Selections from the modern theatre may include characters that have been created over the last sixty years , from Noel Coward to Steven Berkoff . |
| 12 | Apart from the fact that there has been significant support for the alliance party over the last dozen years or so among the catholic middle classes , there is also a further factor . |
| 13 | In the debates over the last twenty years there has been considerable interplay of theological and sociological reasoning , with social scientists also contributing to papers and discussions . |
| 14 | Over the last year thousands of films have been produced all over the world . |
| 15 | The forum will draw on experience of people who have worked within the industry as commissioning editors , producers and directors over the last decade . |
| 16 | Over the last six years , the Cities and Media Forum has become an established part of the Festival and has played a substantial role in the debates about developing the media economies of regional cities in the UK . |
| 17 | Many of these have adopted as a major part of their strategy over the last two years campaigns to attract bidders for Channel 5 franchises to locate in their cities . |
| 18 | On October 5 1991 , ‘ SOUTH ’ , a new series on Channel 4 begins , originating from Channel 4 's work with film and programme makers in the Southern hemisphere over the last eight years . |
| 19 | Jay had picked up a pattern of sleeplessness over the last five months . |
| 20 | British Rail had introduced new safety measures over the last few months , but they could not legislate against criminal vandalism |
| 21 | The rise in the quality of French tennis over the last 20 years , culminating in the emergence of players such as Yannick Noah , Henri Leconte and now Guy Forget , coupled with the transformation of the French Open at Roland Garros into what the majority of players regard as the best organised of the four Grand Slams ( even though Wimbledon remains favourite as to the one they most want to win ) are due very largely to the leadership he has shown . |
| 22 | All of this and he 's not even recovering from any broken bones ( Ben 's specialty over the last few years has been to break a bone and then come back and do or repeat the world 's hardest route ! ) |
| 23 | Over the last five years the bothies have become something of an open invitation for exploitation . |
| 24 | Chaos and fractal imagery have hit the technical and popular imagination over the last few years , and the King 's DSP group is working on a number of applications for this new branch of mathematics . |
| 25 | It is because trying to give credit to this great poet commits a patriotic Englishman ( or Scotsman for that matter — Fraser is a Scot ) to very tormenting and unwelcome questions and reflections about the spiritual state of England or Scotland today , and over the last fifty years . |
| 26 | It is impossible to recognize in the poet thus characterized — ‘ precious ’ , ‘ insulate ’ , ‘ toylike ’ — the William Carlos Williams whom American opinon over the last thirty years has promoted as a respectable , and better than respectable , counterweight to Eliot . |
| 27 | CB is also most unlikely to reach its ambitious goal of generating half its earnings outside France by 1992 , despite having started 20 new businesses in Europe over the last few years . |
| 28 | A GENERATION ago mammalian neuroanatomy seemed a scholarly subject , a frame for functional studies but unlikely to provide an impetus for the astonishing advances in understanding of the brain over the last four decades , in which Hans Kuypers became one of the leaders . |
| 29 | Simon Griffiths , a hospital spokesman , said last night : ‘ Mrs Barnett 's general condition has improved over the last few hours and her liver is functioning well . ’ |
| 30 | The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators says that demand for good qualified chartered secretaries has rocketed over the last three to four years . |