Example sentences of "[verb] over the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | The need for it has reduced but has not vanished over the past twenty years . |
| 2 | While bank deposits have stagnated over the past three years , mutual funds , which are mostly outside the banks ' domain , have grown by two-thirds . |
| 3 | On the contrary , what is happening , and has been happening over the past ten years or so , raises very serious questions indeed . |
| 4 | She should have been sharing breakfast with Kelly right now , laughing and chatting , catching up on all that had been happening over the past few months . |
| 5 | Does he agree that what they need is support and proper resources so that they can carry out their work , not what has been happening over the past 12 years — continual restructuring and reforms which do the service no good and break up the comprehensive national health service that we all know ? |
| 6 | All the hospitals in Southampton have been rebuilt over the past few years . |
| 7 | Despite a worldwide decline in average sperm counts over the past 50 years , those of Finnish men remain roughly twice those of men in other countries , according to Finnish research . |
| 8 | I have been very pleased with my performance , with my success and the achievements which I have enjoyed over the past 20 years . |
| 9 | Ann Act Return ; annual actual return ( per cent ) , this is the actual return earned over the past year and includes both capital appreciation ( depreciation ) and any dividend paid . |
| 10 | As Kmart has begun putting these data to work over the past few years , the company 's operations have become steadily more centralised . |
| 11 | The report claims three hundred and sixty five cases of AIDS have been reported over the past three months ; it 's the highest quarterly rate yet . |
| 12 | It was a black day for Chancellor Kohl whose personal popularity has been steadily eroded over the past two years and whose ability to provide the CDU with effective leadership will be questioned more seriously than before . |
| 13 | The firm 's market share in Italy 's public sector has been eroded over the past three years and he says Olivetti , unlike its principal European competitors ( Siemens-Nixdorf of Germany and Bull of France ) , has enjoyed no particular privileges in its home market . |
| 14 | This model has been developed and validated over the past four years by a research team at Loughborough University through extensive experimentation . |
| 15 | Banking profitability — not to mention a good many banks — has collapsed over the past decade . |
| 16 | Recycling programmmes have failed to prevent Europe 's cities from increasing by 13 per cent the volume of waste discarded over the past five years . |
| 17 | ‘ How have the lands in the Vale fared over the past year ? |
| 18 | And I 'm sure that this report on the health action area is going to show some fairly , erm give us some fairly staggering erm revelations about about the health of Oxford citizens that 's going to surprise people at large when they find out how badly people have fared over the past ten years when we 've had the Tories in office who 've really done their very , very best to make the health divide of this country in a very poor state . |
| 19 | The newsheet had started to appear over the past few days as the villagers began to return to their homes . |
| 20 | The increases were necessary , it was announced , because the burden of government subsidies had quadrupled over the past 10 years . |
| 21 | FKB , the UK 's largest independent sales promotion company , has over the past 15 months made half a dozen US acquisitions . |
| 22 | Social work 's image has suffered over the past dozen or so years from a series of scandals where agencies ' failures have been highlighted , often with total disregard to their successes . |
| 23 | These tough measures are part of a determined effort by the newly independent country to regain control of a resource that has been systematically plundered over the past three decades . |
| 24 | ( i ) Is the applicant required to attend a training course , and if so , how many ? ( a ) The application form for panel membership will ask for details of training courses applicants have attended over the past two or three years . |
| 25 | One of the most positive aspects of Switchboard that I 've seen over the past seven years , apart from the callers , has been the way that many of its members have continuously struggled to put their politics and convictions about gay and other rights into practice ( though some of them might not care to put it that way ) and the strength that working on it has given some people to do so elsewhere . |
| 26 | He or she may even know the number of consultants within a particular firm , how it has been performing , what are its key issues , how it has grown over the past year and generally what it is doing and how successfully . |
| 27 | Much of Rhône-Poulenc 's effort in 199 was focused on integrated the large number of acquisitions it has made over the past five years . |
| 28 | Sterling lost all gains made over the past few days after the Germans cut a quarter per cent off their interest rate . |
| 29 | There have been a number of studies of poverty in the UK that have been made over the past twenty-five years that have consistently indicated that a substantial minority of people may experience serious relative deprivation . |
| 30 | I very much hope that the hospital to which the hon. Gentleman referred will be able to consolidate further the remarkable progress that it has made over the past couple of years — a 56 per cent . |