Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] over the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Study in Midlothian had shown a 33% loss , East Lothian a 23% loss and Bedfordshire in England had shown a remarkable 82% loss of ponds over the last century . |
| 2 | This has come about partly as a result of research over the last 10 years or so into various forms of involvement in the teaching of reading . |
| 3 | It was with his father Paul 's encouragement that Pascal eventually set to work on the project , which has been ‘ something of a labour of love over the last few years ’ . |
| 4 | Theda had followed in the Gallery of Fashion — which all her young charges had avidly studied — the steady rise of waists over the last three or four years , but never before had she felt quite so outdated . |
| 5 | That would certainly make a welcome change , since the weakness of trade over the last year or so has clearly deepened the recession . |
| 6 | They seem to be working their way around the main shopping areas of Britain over the last two years . |
| 7 | It may be that ‘ no action ’ would turn out to be a very wise option based on the experiences of miniaturisation over the last 30 years or so . |
| 8 | A shift in the financial management of football over the last ten years has brought a new and more aggressive generation of directors to the forefront of the game . |
| 9 | Manager Paul Malone surveyed another packed treatment room after yesterday 's game with Linfield and said : ‘ We 've suffered a bad run of injuries over the last month . |
| 10 | While there have been some minor reductions of segregation over the last century , the basic fact of extensive segregation by gender in employment remains a striking feature of the labour market . |
| 11 | I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt . |
| 12 | But let's not ignore the fact that , despite this , rock has been undergoing a certain process of feminisation over the last couple of years . |
| 13 | Jay had picked up a pattern of sleeplessness over the last five months . |
| 14 | But I mean in terms of knitwear over the last few years I can give you one or two examples which I think you 'll readily er understand . |
| 15 | The application of computer technology in the excavation process itself has been a major area of growth over the last decade . |
| 16 | If it is the latter , then we are seeing a constant rate of rape over the last decade but where women are more willing to make legal complaints and the police and courts not willing to convict other than a very small increase in the number . |
| 17 | Continental units lost $14m on sales of $140m over the last nine months . |
| 18 | In fact , the courts have progressively narrowed this species of manslaughter over the last century or so : there was a time when the mere commission of a tort or civil wrong sufficed as the ‘ unlawful act ’ , and when there was no additional requirement of ‘ dangerousness ’ to be satisfied . |
| 19 | The hearings system is claimed to have turned thousands of youngsters away from a life of crime over the last 20 years , but because of the confidential nature of the work done by reporters and panel members , much of the evidence is anecdotal . |
| 20 | Nikos , the owner , has developed an informal and relaxed style of service over the last eleven years that 'll make you feel quite at home . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ We have had a number of complaints over the last few months . ’ |
| 22 | By July , the committee reported that in spite of an increase in the number of members over the last quarter , there had been a loss of trade and a decline in share capital . |
| 23 | Situated on the edge of the attractive village of Tiffield , Ark Farm has evolved from a number of farms over the last 30 years . |
| 24 | The advice on how to put planning for development into practice can be supported by the experiences shared by the Council and a number of bodies over the last three years . |
| 25 | Successful completion of a complex exercise such as this upgrade requires team work and a project team consisting of people from Services Delivery , Technical Services Systems Development and IBM have spent a considerable amount of time over the last few weeks to ensure that the upgrade when ahead without impact on Technology 's customers . |
| 26 | And while she might not have done herself a lot of favours over the last five years , it has to be concluded that she is better getting out while the going 's still good . |
| 27 | It claimed a transformation in the status of embroidery over the last 30 years , from ‘ genteel craft for women ’ to the Art of an ‘ avant-garde ’ on ‘ the cutting edge ’ with ‘ a new spirit of self-expression and innovation ’ . |
| 28 | POLICE have urged owners of mountain cycles to have their property post-coded following a spate of thefts over the last week . |
| 29 | However , there is no doubt that the most important event for the museum will be the exhibition ‘ Au Louvre d'après les Maîtres ’ ( 26 April to 23 June 1993 ) that chronicles the active role played by the Louvre in the history of art over the last two centuries . |
| 30 | If nothing else , the relative lack of action over the last couple of nights would ensure a good sleep before setting off home . |