Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] over the last [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although China and Japan were the central areas for martial arts development over the last 2,000 years , many other countries in southeast Asia developed indigenous fighting systems , each of which , though perhaps not so well known , has produced great masters and thousand-years old traditions . |
| 2 | If we 'd had a boom economy over the last five years , the Stock Exchange would never have thought of phasing out the USM . ’ |
| 3 | The overall winning team was the Manchester firm Ove Arup and Partners who narrowly edged out the Sir Robert McAlpine squad on a card play-off over the last six holes . |
| 4 | Another participant pointed out that the Northern Ireland budget over the last five years had only increased in line with inflation . |
| 5 | The temperature has risen by around one degree centigrade over the last 150 years . |
| 6 | Looking at the proportion of membership to Sports Council money over the last three years : |
| 7 | LABOUR 'S proposals for higher income tax and national insurance have faded as a campaign issue over the last two weeks , but they continue to simmer in the background . |
| 8 | But yet , the steady increase in the divorce rate over the last fifteen years or so is not the simple consequence of attending women 's studies classes . |
| 9 | The work is continuing with the development of a new framework for tax incidence , examining the concept of progressivity and investigating the factors which have changed the income distribution over the last 15 years . |
| 10 | We 've researched our forward marketing platform over the last seven months . |
| 11 | By this stage the fielding captain has been compelled to resort to his second and third string bowlers , keeping his main strike men back to stem the batting slog over the last 10 overs . |
| 12 | Routers have really revolutionised the trade and home woodworking sectors of the power tool market over the last 20 or so years . |
| 13 | Given the revolution in business technology over the last twenty years and its implications for all aspects of business , there is a need for experts in the field of business communication . |
| 14 | There have been significant changes in the UK economy over the last twenty years , with a steady growth of the service sector at the expense of industry . |
| 15 | We need a relational database to store our accounting data in , and whilst our overall approach is that we will work with potentially Ansi S Q L compliant relational database , I would like to emphasize that has been our primary development environment over the last two years . |
| 16 | One of the major features of the growth of our education system over the last thirty-five years has been the enormous increase in provision of higher education . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And this is why , one of the reasons why we 've seen , we 've witnessed increased price volatility over the last forty years right , it 's because world markets have tended to become much more residual , much less world , much less worldly . |
| 19 | This guidance note has brought into the open a range of contentious issues that have been debated in correspondence and at meetings between the Faculty and the Department of Social Security 's Policy Division over the last 12 months . |
| 20 | To take just one example : Associated British Ports ( the former British Transport Docks Board ) has paid over £60 million in corporation tax over the last five years . |
| 21 | This month sees the publication of a new book by Doug Scott , recording his climbing career over the last 30 years in photographs . |
| 22 | The company has achieved average annual compound growth over the last four years of 15% . |
| 23 | Pictures of stars who have made most contribution to the music industry over the last 25 years featured at a glittering party in New York 's Four Seasons Restaurant . |
| 24 | So individual examples have been chosen as representative of many others , followed by a statistical appraisal of the entry and drop-out rate of all firms in the British headhunting business over the last four decades . |
| 25 | Pursuing a focused commercial strategy while effectively managing the nuclear liabilities has been central to our implementation of the Pushing the Limits strategy over the last three years . |
| 26 | The leadership we 've had from the trade union movement over the last fourteen years , we 've been picked off on everything . |
| 27 | It has been French State policy over the last twelve years to foster its provincial museums , and in particular to increase the number of contemporary art museums outside Paris ( see The Art Newspaper No. 26 , March 1993 , pp. 8–9 ) . |
| 28 | Because of the volatility of precious metal prices , net realisable value is generally taken to be the lower of market prices and average prices ruling over the last five years . |
| 29 | However , the increasing interest in discourse and text analysis over the last ten years has sharpened awareness of some crucial differences . |
| 30 | First , there has been a high degree of parallel and interactive effort by scientific , political and public information initiative over the last ten years . |