Example sentences of "have changed over the " in BNC.

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1 It is as if the public recognizes that society has changed over the decade but does not much like what sees .
2 The nature of bonfire materials has changed over the years .
3 From these sources , it is possible quite quickly to gain an idea of how parkland has changed over the years — usually expanding in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , and then contracting during the twentieth .
4 Respondents are asked : ‘ How do you think the general economic situation in this country has changed over the last 12 months ? ’ .
5 The method of impalement in this situation has changed over the centuries .
6 Thus the nature of local politics has changed over the post-war period , and we will now look at the way this has been analysed , to see if the debates within the social sciences have kept pace with material change .
7 While this view may have been valid a century ago , the situation has changed over the past two decades and ceramics are now widely used in many engineering applications , including wear components , seals , bearing surfaces and engine components .
8 On the international scene nothing much has changed over the past five years , here are some examples of what they found :
9 All that has changed over the centuries is that the monarch used to be the substantial head of the government and it is , indeed , still the case that , legally , much central government executive authority continues to reside in the monarch .
10 Little has changed over the centuries , the main difference being the changing shape of the woodlands surrounding the Park and the village .
11 Would you say your sound has changed over the years ?
12 The figures below show how credit use has changed over the period covered by these three surveys .
13 Because of tax changes the amount you can invest has changed over the years .
14 ‘ Well , Jessamyn 's appearance has changed over the years , from her first arrests as a pre-teenager to this last photograph — please excuse the quality , it 's a blow-up from a spysat picture taken from an orbital pass over Arizona last December — which shows her as we must assume she is now .
15 In some areas the precise details of the ban coverage has changed over the last few years and climber are requested to check that they re aware of these updates .
16 Whilst the form and degree of criticism has changed over the twentieth century , in essence it has remained the same , with similar international contrasts being drawn .
17 The track that Mr Foyt made his second home has changed over the years , but perhaps no more so than in the past year .
18 Western philosophy has a long tradition so it is not surprising that it has changed over the centuries both in content and in method .
19 Ask a bookdealer how his trade has changed over the last twenty years , and you 'll get an answer worthy of a merchant banker : volumes have multiplied ( hardly surprising : there have been as many books published since 1960 as in all the previous history of publishing ) , margins have been squeezed ; competition has grown fiercer , and specialisation finer ; women and Japanese have become crucial forces with which to reckon .
20 ‘ The shape of the marsh has changed over the years , but we 're somewhere close to the spot .
21 What the overall figures do not show is the way in which the activity of banking business has changed over the last decade .
22 Possible explanations for a difference between older and younger women are that the operation has a delayed effect , that the operative technique has changed over the years so that it is less likely to affect bowel function , or that gynaecologists are doing fewer operations on women with pelvic pain of intestinal origin .
23 The two tests were explained in that case by the Lord Chancellor … who commented that not the law but our mode of life has changed over the years ; that what has changed is " the degree in which certain things have seemed susceptible of being put up as mere ornaments whereas at our earlier period the mere construction rendered it impossible sometimes to sever the thing which was put up from the realty . "
24 Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years .
25 I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution .
26 Many so-called experts will tell you how the game has changed over the last 30 years .
27 I do n't think er , and of course , er , again perhaps the idea of a black sheep , has changed over the years .
28 What we 've actually got here is a judicious budget proposal which yes , has changed over the last fortnight , I make no apologies for that .
29 Many systems and many faces may have changed over the last year or two and I do n't imagine you would believe me if I said that none of these changes had saddened me but , in a changing market-place , the basics have n't changed and the most basic precept of all is that there are no healthy banks where there are no health customers to sustain them .
30 it seems to have changed over the last few years
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