Example sentences of "[noun prp] over the [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | By looking at events that have taken place in Leicestershire over the past 90 years , this project aims to build up a picture of the long-term changes that have taken place in the levels and patterns of violence in various spheres of social life . |
| 2 | But developments in Britain and the United States over the past two years suggest that micros need ultimately to cost little more than a tape recorder or a good transistor radio . |
| 3 | There has , however , been an increasing recognition in the United States over the past 25 years that community based services for people with long term mental illness have too often been fragmented . |
| 4 | Despite writing a pet column for the Daily Telegraph for more than four years , I have been given no information at all about Crufts over the past two years . |
| 5 | Mr Shaban told AIBS representatives of the difficulties he had experienced in establishing Amnesty pre-groups in Gaza over the past three years . |
| 6 | Its most controversial suggestion to cut the financial burden on the state was to phase out SERPS over the following three years . |
| 7 | My aims were to record the time distribution of night visits and to show the trend in claims in Berkshire over the past 10 years after adjusting for the change in claimable hours . |
| 8 | McAuley , who has driven for the factory teams of Swift and Van Diemen over the past two years , had hoped to graduate to Formula Three this season , but was unable to raise the £150,000 budget . |
| 9 | The information area is another instance where RMI has become entangled and confused with a number of information initiatives in the NHS over the past few years . |
| 10 | I have had the immense privilege of serving the people of Worcester over the past 30 years . |
| 11 | The UDA had been blamed for about one-third of the killings of civilians in Northern Ireland over the previous 23 years ( more than 2,000 civilians having been killed during this period ) . |
| 12 | A French Basque , Henri Parot , arrested at a routine roadblock outside Seville on April 2 with 300 kg of explosives in his car , admitted that he was the leader of the " itinerant commando " of the Basque separatist organization ETA which had killed at least 33 people in Spain over the past 12 years , including Gen. Victor Lago Roman in Madrid in 1982 [ see p. 32803 ] and the Madrid prosecutor Carmen Tagle on Sept. 12 , 1989 . |
| 13 | Launching a report on the changing face of England over the past 50 years , Burton called on the government to target the 150,000 hectares of derelict land in cities before it allows more building in the countryside . |
| 14 | This is essentially what has been done at Foster Wheeler over the past six years , and the views expressed in this paper arise largely from reflecting on the experiences of that project . |
| 15 | What is being suggested is a softening of the hard line taken by the Tories in Scotland over the past five years in the use of political patronage . |
| 16 | Our figures for oral carcinoma in south east Scotland over the past 10 years show that 456 patients presented with these tumours ; the mean age at presentation was 63.8 years for men and 68.2 years for women . |
| 17 | I must confess that I have spent barely a fraction of my life paying any attention to the ragbag of funk/rap/rawk stomps that have swanned across the Atlantic over the past three years , but even RATM are sufficiently wired to blow several of my brain cells . |
| 18 | An unpublished report prepared for the Supreme Soviet in 1990 by a commission of independent experts states that 437,000 people have been affected by a series of accidents and contamination at the nuclear weapons production plant at Kyshtym in the southern Urals over the past 45 years . |
| 19 | Incidences of sun-induced skin cancer — have doubled in the UK over the past five years . |
| 20 | ‘ Danish farmers are also keen to try their hand at outdoor systems , which we have seen emerging in the UK over the past five years , and trials have already begun . ’ |
| 21 | There has been an extraordinary rise in the sales of diesel cars in the UK over the past two years and diesel is proving more and more popular on the continent too . |
| 22 | Even some in new houses now want to move out because of the construction works , traffic congestion , and a general decline in the image and attractiveness of Docklands over the past three years . |
| 23 | Erskine , long resident in Stockholm , is known for the warm , humane domestic , public and commercial buildings he has designed in Sweden over the past 50 years . |
| 24 | I join the House in expressing sympathy to the families who have been so griveously bereaved through this tragedy , a tragedy that has been the experience of so many of the British people in Ulster over the past 20 years . |
| 25 | Kavos has been the fastest developing resort in Corfu over the past two years and now has more bars , tavernas and discos than just about anywhere else on the island . |
| 26 | The exhibition also looks at the making and selling of instruments on Merseyside over the past 200 years . |
| 27 | Of total foreign investment in Czechoslovakia over the previous 2 years only 11 per cent had gone to Slovakia , and the common perception was that the industries of the Czech Lands were in general better placed to benefit from the programme of rapid privatization emphasised by Klaus . |
| 28 | A glittering figure on the international financial circuit , he not only provided East Germany with much-needed foreign currency but also played a central part in all political and economic exchanges with West Germany over the past 30 years . |
| 29 | A glittering figure on the international financial circuit , he not only provided East Germany with much-needed foreign currency but also played a central part in all political and economic exchanges with West Germany over the past 30 years . |
| 30 | The first of these contains details on 61 surveys conducted by SCPR over the past six years : a total of about 3,000 interviewer assignments . |