Example sentences of "[verb] over the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was suggested that too much VAT had been claimed over the previous two years . |
| 2 | It was suggested that too much VAT had been claimed over the previous two years . |
| 3 | In it , Ptolemy summarized much of the scientific knowledge which had been amassed over the previous centuries . |
| 4 | The Unity Campaign could hardly avoid the accusation that it was creating a new organization to invite Labour Party members to work together with Communists , which every Labour Conference decision had forbidden over the previous ten years . |
| 5 | The draft budget for fiscal 1991/92 , approved by the government on March 4 , 1991 , showed a 29.3 per cent rise in income plans and a 3.4 per cent rise in expenditure plans over the previous year . |
| 6 | ( ii ) In addition , the details of training courses applicants have attended over the previous three years will be used as background information and will be relevant to demonstrate interest in medical negligence litigation , commitment and willingness to learn . |
| 7 | Movement from the centralities of ‘ real polising ’ in uniform , via the CID , into the marginal fringes of an extended period of drug squad work , had a profound influence on the absolute tenets of policing I had absorbed over the previous decade . |
| 8 | This was not a controlled trial but a retrospective assessment of the patients seen over the previous seven years . |
| 9 | The offensive was an attempt both to consolidate gains made over the previous two months and to wrest control of the main road and rail links to Thailand . |
| 10 | By 1914 the number of Chinese boarding houses was reckoned over the previous few years to have increased by stages from 13 to 300 to 400 . |
| 11 | It so happens that this rate is exactly the output of the building industry , averaged over the previous three years . |
| 12 | The exciting promise John had revealed over the previous eighteen months was rewarded by a place on the England tour of Australasia in June 1991 where he demonstrated his capacity to excite the crowd and to bemuse the opposition by featuring prominently in all four matches , thereby staking a claim for a regular inclusion in the national side . |
| 13 | At the first meeting in the department I did what every other Transport Minister appears to have done over the previous ten years : I hired Professor Sir Alec Cairncross to advise me . |
| 14 | Chaovalit 's entry to government was expected to raise the prestige of the administration which had been beset over the previous year by a series of corruption scandals and labour disputes . |
| 15 | The confrontation was symbolic of the accelerating polarization which had occurred over the previous five years , with the Popular Front calling for a determined re-application of the policies of 1931–3 and the right for radical constitutional revision . |
| 16 | The operation , run by the police , Army and Air Force , was to last 60 days and was to result in the eviction of all garimpeiros from the 2,000-sq km reserve which had been progressively invaded over the previous two to three years . |
| 17 | They stated that 27,000 million Saudi riyals ( approximately US$8,000 million ) had been spent over the previous seven years to improve facilities for pilgrims . |
| 18 | Their initiative was thought to have been in response to an open letter published on Jan. 15 under the signatures of three former Presidents , the Archbishop of Bogotá , and the leader of the left-wing Patriotic Union Party ( UP ) , which had offered them the prospect of " society 's support … for less rigorous treatment " by the government if they released the estimated dozens of hostages they had seized over the previous two months and stopped drug trafficking . |
| 19 | Although lacking a formal programme , Fujimori had rejected " shock " adjustments at a time when he claimed that the buying power of the majority of people had been halved over the previous year and that the needs of the poorest sectors had still to be met . |
| 20 | These more loyal long service employees had an intuitive feeling that the division would ultimately go out of business in the UK if it continued to operate in the way it had behaved over the previous ten years . |
| 21 | The grant was voted more because Charles ended disputes over land titles running over the previous twenty years than because the West Indians believed they ought to support the English Exchequer , but a permanent colonial contribution to the home government was — at least for England — a new and interesting departure , though one that had no sequel . |
| 22 | His memory may have been tarnished over the previous decade with the acknowledgement of his serious policy errors . |
| 23 | In 1962 H. H. Hess , of Princeton University in the USA , published a radical explanation for much of the geological data that had been accumulating over the previous decade or so . |
| 24 | Speedy success was essential , since records gathered over the previous 80 years showed that at best only three weeks of rain-free weather could be expected at that time of the year . |
| 25 | A report prepared for the United States State Department , published in September 1989 , stated that the Somali armed forces had " purposely murdered " at least 5,000 civilians in fighting over the previous two years . |
| 26 | The school librarian is provided with a monthly total of items borrowed over the previous two years and a running total of items on loan to each year group . |
| 27 | Going from there to , and that 's a sort of history of where things have happened over the previous four mon four months , to expectations about output this is the first survey since the recession began in which all regions , mainland regions of the U K say that they expect output to increase over the coming four months . |
| 28 | Despite a continuing diificult economic climate membership levels were held steady , and a 4 per cent increase in new members was achieved over the previous year . |
| 29 | The economic programme presented in February , which relaxed the monetarist controls implemented over the previous two years and sought to lift the economy out of recession by investing in state enterprises and boosting imports [ see pp. 38774-75 ] , was rejected by the Sejm ( lower house of parliament ) on March 5 by 171 votes to 138 with 38 abstentions . |
| 30 | Qly Ab Return ; quarterly abnormal return ( per cent ) , this represents the difference between what the share might have been expected to earn over the previous quarter given its beta value and the risk free rate of return , and the return of the market over the same period ( ; where the expected return is equal to ) . |