Example sentences of "[noun] over the [adj] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It requires courage and support from sympathetic colleagues to admit that the things that have been happening in classrooms or schools over the past 20 years have been wrong , pigheaded or simply inefficient . |
| 2 | Anyone who studies academic standards in our schools over the past 20 years must recognise that there have been considerable improvements . |
| 3 | A Mr Shawcross , chairman of the examination board of the NUT , offered a similar contribution : he spoke of the " revolutionary change " in the teaching of English in elementary schools over the previous ten years , and he went on ( in the words of the bulletin report ) to give " his experience of Manchester children under the old system " : |
| 4 | I met the management of Trent Buses , which operates in a very competitive , deregulated environment , and I am glad to say that its investment programme over the past five years has been impressive . |
| 5 | By looking at events that have taken place in Leicestershire over the past 90 years , this project aims to build up a picture of the long-term changes that have taken place in the levels and patterns of violence in various spheres of social life . |
| 6 | Environmental quality appraisals over the past 30 years showed that the nuclear industry had had an " inconsiderable " effect on the country 's environment , he said . |
| 7 | NHS dentists ’ incomes have dropped in real terms by 40pc over the past ten years and the most recent savage cuts proposed , leave many practitioners worried about possible bankruptcy . ’ |
| 8 | If we look at the development of computers over the past 30 years we see accelerated change of a phenomenal nature . |
| 9 | But developments in Britain and the United States over the past two years suggest that micros need ultimately to cost little more than a tape recorder or a good transistor radio . |
| 10 | There has , however , been an increasing recognition in the United States over the past 25 years that community based services for people with long term mental illness have too often been fragmented . |
| 11 | It should also be stated that changes in political thinking over the past three years have changed the complexion of the West German energy future . |
| 12 | Despite writing a pet column for the Daily Telegraph for more than four years , I have been given no information at all about Crufts over the past two years . |
| 13 | I was introduced to Punch at the age of 12 , grew up on Basil Boothroyd and have relied on my weekly ‘ fix ’ to get me through life 's crises over the past 47 years — including moving house six times , several bereavements , liquidation ( yes , me too ! ! ) , my daughter 's attempted suicide and my recent divorce . |
| 14 | They find significant differences in the neodymium isotope compositions of small and large eruptive sequences over the past 300,000 years . |
| 15 | The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has gone up by 25% over the past 150 years . |
| 16 | The fact that France had already received the lion 's share of new European component investment over the previous five years was beside the point . |
| 17 | In fact , there are now more companies with no plans for future investment ( 52 companies ) than companies that had not made any investment over the previous three years ( 43 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ However , I feel justified in saying that the return on our investment over the past two years has been immense . ’ |
| 19 | Using data supplied by local police forces and government ministries , the report stated that ( i ) 4,611 children and adolescents had died from violence over the previous three years , more than 50 per cent of them shot and the rest killed by stabbing , beating , poisoning or strangling ; ( ii ) young girls were raped and many had died from clandestine abortions after becoming prostitutes ; ( iii ) children were exploited from the age of three by professional beggars , from the age of six by drug traffickers and , if they survived , ended up in armed groups used by criminal gangs and even the police ; ( iv ) the abuse of drugs and solvents was common among street children ; ( v ) an estimated 3,000 children were illegally adopted annually by foreigners , 50 per cent going to Italy and 30 per cent to France , who paid up to US$20,000 for a white child ; and ( vi ) 25,000,000 out of 45,000,000 children were chronically underfed , 30 per cent lived in poverty and 10,000 were child workers . |
| 20 | General KV Krishna Rao , a former army chief , replaces Girish Saxena to co-ordinate anti-terrorist operations by the army and paramilitary forces and organise elections in the state , where around 6,000 people have died in militant-related violence over the past three years . |
| 21 | It is easiest to understand the modern methods for measuring electrical activity from the brain by looking at the development of these methods over the past hundred years or so . |
| 22 | The shock statistics reveal a sharp rise in drug abuse of all kinds among teenagers over the past two years . |
| 23 | Many of those interviewed said their job had changed beyond recognition over the past five years and were providing more personal care at the expense of domestic help . |
| 24 | The contribution which adults other than teachers , both employers and trade unionists , can make to the school curriculum has gained widespread recognition over the past ten years , through the activities of the SCIP , the Royal Society of Arts Industry Year ( 1986 ) , and the more recent DTI initiatives . |
| 25 | The death rate for bleeding peptic ulcers has averaged between 6% and 10% over the past 30 years . |
| 26 | Because of the political impasse over the past ten years Cambodia , one of the poorest countries in the world , has received no UN development aid , nor any bilateral or multilateral development aid from the UK . |
| 27 | Responding to a national survey which showed a modest improvement in lifestyles over the past seven years , Dr Wilde said individuals needed greater help from retailers , food producers , planners , teachers , environmental health officers and politicians . |
| 28 | Scotland has achieved an economic and cultural regeneration over the past 13 years . |
| 29 | Amnesty said that the torture of those detained by the army and police was a daily routine , and that it had received reports of more than 200 cases of torture over the past two years , but believed the true figure to be much higher . |
| 30 | It features elements of many of the trends in classification theory and practice over the past 100 years . |