Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [vb pp] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scale of the disaster which has slowly emerged over the past four days has shaken those who are working to tackle the crisis . |
| 2 | The site , near modern Kerma , has been known since the 1920s but the city underneath has only emerged over the last ten years . |
| 3 | This is not the result of patients being ‘ switched ’ into a different mental health category since the incidence of other types of illness has not increased over the same period . |
| 4 | The need for it has reduced but has not vanished over the past twenty years . |
| 5 | Man 's basic need has not changed over the five centuries that this book covers . |
| 6 | The litany of complaints , in particular the bureaucratic inertia of the various tiers of government , has not changed over the past quarter century ; yet much has been done , both by foreign and Italian committees . |
| 7 | Although there has been some shift in the 1980s to the political right in the United States and West Germany , the socialist share of the vote has hardly changed over the two decades in Austria , Scandinavia , West Germany , and Italy . |
| 8 | The proportion of old people living in cold homes has hardly changed over the last 20 years despite improvements in living conditions , a report shows . |
| 9 | The birth rate in many African countries has also fallen over the past decade . |
| 10 | And the rate of deaths , the number per one thousand live births , has also dropped over the same period , from 2.30 in 1988 to 1.44 in 1991 . |
| 11 | A wall of silence has now descended over the key players . |
| 12 | The FDA Division of Epidemiology and Surveillance has consistently held over the past six years that triazolam produces many more and more severe psychiatric adverse reactions than comparable benzodiazepines . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes Donald , the team has undoubtedly deteriorated over the past few years . ’ |
| 14 | The population of Hanoi has almost doubled over the last 30 years , but inadequate planning and sanitation measures during the expansion of the city have resulted in chronic subsidence and drainage problems . |
| 15 | The number of establishments in retail catering has almost doubled over the past 20 years , with licensed restaurants the fastest growing sector . |
| 16 | US involvement in Uk defence technology has steadily increased over the past thirty years as the UK has sought to maintain its lead within increasing economic constraints . |
| 17 | Renewable energy generation 45% of electricity demand could be met from wind power In fact , the amount of electricity produced by renewable sources in the UK has steadily declined over the past five years . |
| 18 | Third , downward mobility from positions in the service class to other class positions has steadily decreased over the same time span ( A. H. Halsey , A. F. Heath and John Ridge , Origins and Destinations , Oxford University Press , 1980 ) . |
| 19 | Right so if you go er into squared and estimate the equation , right , it has actually estimated over the full sample period has it , no it has n't no alright it has n't estimated so that 's an equation estimated over the first sum , first sub sample , right , if you press the return key again right right , at the bottom in the table of diagnostic tests you 'll see Chow 's predictive failure test , right and also erm the Chow test . |