Example sentences of "[noun] over the last [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not clear if the Government 's tactics over the last few days are typical of the muddle that has beset it in recent months or if it is deliberately designed to throw its opponents into confusion . |
| 2 | There 's been something like twenty per cent cut over the last few years and erm some faculty members have taken early retirement and left , so a lot of subjects have lost some of their most able people . |
| 3 | She well be reviewing the foundation 's programme over the last few years with the aim of identifying any gaps or areas where new initiatives might be needed . |
| 4 | I want to thank also er the different organisations , cos you made an absolute profit for the G P O , er erm British Telecom , they must have actually made a bomb in Leicestershire over the last few days . |
| 5 | A representative of the mainly-Muslim Bosnian army , which seized the village in fierce fighting over the last five days , said they would not be harmed if they stayed . |
| 6 | Economic thinking over the last 40 years , the report observed , had shifted dramatically away from the promotion of state-directed industrialization towards a more " market-friendly " approach to development , but " markets sometimes prove inadequate or fail altogether " and " governments must , for example , invest in infrastructure and provide essential services to the poor " . |
| 7 | The increasing stocking density evident in Powys over the last 3 decades also explains the broadleaved woodland regeneration problem and clarifies why such woods are now often grazed to billiard table-like turf when in the more distant past grazing levels must have been low enough to allow regeneration . |
| 8 | Parcelforce has made a loss over the last two years , despite strong efforts to turn the business around . |
| 9 | Central government has sunk over 1,200 waterholes in southern and western provinces over the last ten years , and continues to sink about 150 boreholes a year in Lusaka alone . |
| 10 | Still panting , she struggled to maintain a vestige of self-respect as the press demanded a full briefing of her domestic itinerary over the last 24 hours . |
| 11 | I have immensely valued your advice , help , support , commitment , encouragement and above all your friendship over the last six years . |
| 12 | A SOLDIER was killed by an IRA sniper last night — victim No. 3,001 in Ulster 's grim death toll over the last 23 years . |
| 13 | Market makers have been running ‘ flat ’ trading books over the last few days to minimise their risk . |
| 14 | ‘ We have made very consistent efforts to brand Phaidon books over the last few years , putting the Phaidon name on the front and back of all our books as a brand image of quality , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Mr Major said that not only had the Budget extended the export credit guarantee scheme but : ‘ Mr Lamont has also cut premiums over the last few months by as much as 27 per cent to help exporters . ’ |
| 16 | After all , she had had lots of practice over the last four years ! |
| 17 | Much of geography over the last 40 years has been concerned with analysing these subsystems by breaking down each subsystem into ever smaller component parts and studying these parts , and their interrelationships , at an increasing level of detail . |
| 18 | At the first stage of the project , a selective economic history of the industry over the last 120 years was compiled ( B/00/23/2070 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The fast-swimming Dall 's porpoise has been particularly hard hit in the North Pacific and hundreds of thousands of animals over the last 20 years have been entangled in the giant drift-nets of the salmon , squid , and tuna fisheries . |
| 21 | It is difficult to provide any comparable data over the last thirty years and though the general impression is one of slight reduction in socio-economic inequalities in GP consultation , this should not be taken for granted . |
| 22 | Dolphin , which has been developing SCI over the last two years , will add its own SCI-based multi-processing system using the Motorola Inc 88110 later this year . |
| 23 | The painstaking work on the wreck undertaken by the amateur Chelmsford Sub-Acqua Club over the last twelve years will be the subject of an exhibition at the Maritime Museum this year . |
| 24 | Net Trust has launched into action over the last few months in different areas . |
| 25 | The fact that the hordes of reporters who live in the burrows of the Palace of Westminster got it wrong — and have since tried to justify getting it wrong — has given me , and many of my friends who knew the score pretty accurately before the result , much quiet pleasure over the last few days . |
| 26 | I presume you have access to the various briefing papers we have circulated to branches over the last 18 months or so . |
| 27 | A dramatic increase in the crime over the last eighteen months has hit clothing companies hard . |
| 28 | From another quarter , Baroness Faithfull took issue in 1979 with the ‘ simplistic belief ’ in the short-sharp-shock remedy which she viewed as no less foolish than ‘ the theories of those false prophets of permissiveness at whose door must be laid a considerable part of the blame for the rise in crime over the last two decades ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Thousands of Italians have settled in the North-East over the last hundred years . |