Example sentences of "[noun pl] over the last [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Before gaining the commercial weight of the mighty Epic Records , Martyn Joseph had already established a considerable market for his songs , having recorded on independent record labels over the last six years , including his own . |
| 5 | He stressed the need for economies after accumulated serious losses over the last seven years . |
| 6 | The need for more prisons has appeared in many jurisdictions over the last fifteen years . |
| 7 | The revision of liturgical texts over the last thirty years has brought both problems and opportunities . |
| 8 | Yesterday Mr Mandela began a three-day tour of the Natal Midlands , cockpit of the virtual civil war between the ANC and Inkatha which has claimed thousands of lives over the last three years . |
| 9 | It is the fifteenth in a series called ‘ The Russian world ’ which he has created for museums in various countries over the last five years or so . |
| 10 | However , the quality of economic decision-making in most African countries over the last thirty years suggests that this is inextricably linked to the relative failure of aid . |
| 11 | It was the kind of socialism that insisted the NHS was not split up or sold off , that resented the injustice of the poll tax , and opposed the centralisation , control and censorship which had eroded civil liberties over the last 10 years . |
| 12 | Inland changes to sites over the last 1000 years do not seem to have been so drastic . |
| 13 | ‘ By lowering our costs over the last two years we feel we can now pass some of those savings on to customers . ’ |
| 14 | The reduction in training places over the last two years has also meant that firms can now pick the cream of the universities ' output . |
| 15 | These two questions represent the focus of a considerable amount of research by developmental psychologists over the last 30 years . |
| 16 | There have been many advances over the last 20 years , particularly in the subjects of settlement , technology and social and economic organisation . |
| 17 | The organization has participated in the major mass protests over the last three years and has donated food , clothing and time to supporting strikers , political prisoners and other popular causes . |
| 18 | The interest in generative grammars over the last thirty years has resulted in a variety of theories for generative processing of language . |
| 19 | STRINDBERG 'S Miss Julie ranks among the most tiresome female characters to have trod the boards over the last 100 years or so . |
| 20 | Courtaulds has supplied more than 420,000 composite combat helmets for British troops over the last eight years — all made from ballistic nylon , which replaces the traditional steel . |
| 21 | I 'm talking about saving human life governments over the last twenty years , troops over the last twenty years , policemen over the last twenty years , laws over the last twenty years , and politicians , including myself , have all failed in all the efforts that we 've made including condemnation of violence , everything , but I am now saying that this dialogue is the best hope I 've seen or , surely I 'm entitled to say to the Prime Minister , alright given that I have said that why do n't you put me to the test ? |
| 22 | Increased production , new tufted machines , extra shifts , more employees and new buildings over the last two years , means that Lyle has expanded and grown . |
| 23 | B A er had a very clear dominance at Heathrow , erm it was a dominance that erm has effectively been erm given to them on a plate by the government , or successive governments over the last fifty years , erm and which in effect saw off you know , Laker , B Cal , Dan Air , Air Europe , erm and er and er and er it 's it 's them having that dominance and then being able to erm er effectively misuse that dominance by er by using the dom the dominance on say the routes which say Virgin Atlantic do n't fly to er actually damage Virgin on on on the routes that erm that we do fly . |
| 24 | He argues that in order to extract Britain 's oil reserves fast — a policy objective pursued dogmatically by all governments over the last fifteen years — it was necessary to depend upon the transnational oil companies . |
| 25 | The G M B supports a fresh approach to industrial relations ' law with a completely new legislative code which brings international standards fully into the U K. President , we are totally opposed to the repressive trade union laws brought in by Tory governments over the last fourteen years . |
| 26 | I 'm talking about saving human life governments over the last twenty years , troops over the last twenty years , policemen over the last twenty years , laws over the last twenty years , and politicians , including myself , have all failed in all the efforts that we 've made including condemnation of violence , everything , but I am now saying that this dialogue is the best hope I 've seen or , surely I 'm entitled to say to the Prime Minister , alright given that I have said that why do n't you put me to the test ? |
| 27 | Sweetmeats , cakes or puddings follow … the variety has been highly praised by our guests over the last five years . |
| 28 | An extensive programme of geological thin-sectioning of stone implements in various universities over the last 30 years has shown quite clearly that between 3000 and 1500 BC there were a number of heavily exploited sources of stone and flint which were used to make axes and other implements . |
| 29 | Tory governments that have said they are the champions of the individual , but have eroded the rights of individual workers over the last fourteen years . |
| 30 | Closer to home is the trauma faced by social workers over the last ten years . |