Example sentences of "over the [adj] ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bogdanovich shot the footage with Boris and booked other actors to complete the film , shooting over the succeeding ten days . |
| 2 | The average price paid by industrial and commercial consumers declined only slightly if at all in real terms over the first ten years of nationalisation , but electricity usage in industry was probably less price-elastic than in most uses , and other factors were the main stimuli to sales growth . |
| 3 | In a review of its work over the first ten years , its chairman , Lord Justice Sellers , claimed that the two institutions ‘ worked side by side in complete harmony and with some mutual assistance ’ . |
| 4 | Of course , Hodder 's table reflects a concept very close to the familiar annuity-depreciation method — the only difference being that the latter method would spread depreciation over the full ten years of the asset 's life . |
| 5 | Because of the political impasse over the past ten years Cambodia , one of the poorest countries in the world , has received no UN development aid , nor any bilateral or multilateral development aid from the UK . |
| 6 | But the system does not , so far , recognise brain injury , despite the enormous advances over the past ten years in the study of cognitive , behavioural and memory problems . ’ |
| 7 | Mr Erik Sondén , the managing director of SIPA , points out that in the tiny Swedish market values of investment properties have gone only one way over the past ten years : up . |
| 8 | Partly because it is profitable : its pre-tax profits have tripled over the past ten years , to £604m ( $980m ) on sales of £5.6 billion ( in some 30 countries ) in the year to March 1990 . |
| 9 | The Kroll investigation also found that over the past ten years some $10 billion had either been salted away in banks or used to buy shares of western companies . |
| 10 | Over the past ten years recorded crime has risen faster than at any time in our history . |
| 11 | On the contrary , what is happening , and has been happening over the past ten years or so , raises very serious questions indeed . |
| 12 | Recent surveys by the National Science Teachers Association ( NSTA ) show an 80 per cent decline over the past ten years in the number of maths and science teachers turned out by colleges and universities . |
| 13 | Over the past ten years , doctors have begun to recognize just how many different childhood problems can be caused by food sensitivity . |
| 14 | There were reports from Carole Fuller on the number of congregants which had increased from 128 to 141 over the past ten months , and on the musical life of the church . |
| 15 | The failure to produce one is naturally laid at the door of the government which has progressively weakened regional strategic planning over the past ten years , but it is also undeniable that any large scale infrastructure programme would produce massive public opposition . |
| 16 | This sort of dramatic display of Judaism is the public face of Lubavitch — an ultrareligious movement that has become increasingly powerful over the past ten years . |
| 17 | All the medical research over the past ten years has linked early sex with the onset of cervical cancer , a potential killer . |
| 18 | Although it would be difficult to document the generalisation , it seems to me that there has been a significant decline , over the past ten or fifteen years , in the degree of confidence in the scope and security of foundations in both psychology and linguistics . |
| 19 | Over the past ten years or so there has been a great deal of innovative thinking and impressive empirical investigation in our field and the theory 1 have been reviewing has played its part . |
| 20 | In a way , the show marks the next step on from the post-industrial carnivals that have been developed over the past ten years . |
| 21 | Over the past ten years the excavations at the church have yielded some remarkable discoveries . |
| 22 | One big piece of deregulation over the past ten years will be hard to reverse : the freeing of interest rates . |
| 23 | Lack of effective legislation has allowed thousands of radios and many TV stations to mushroom over the past ten years . |
| 24 | The painting will be included in an exhibition until 30 April of works acquired over the past ten years . |
| 25 | Over the past ten years a series of exhibitions at Burghley and on tour have focused on the house 's clocks , European and Oriental ceramics , books , objets de vertu and scientific instruments . |
| 26 | Like Graham and Sabrina he too had been left a holdall , containing a Geiger-Muller counter and his favourite handgun , a Browning Mk2 , in a locker at the main railway station where he had spent three hours studiously checking the invoices for all the freight loaded at the goods yard over the past ten days . |
| 27 | The contribution which adults other than teachers , both employers and trade unionists , can make to the school curriculum has gained widespread recognition over the past ten years , through the activities of the SCIP , the Royal Society of Arts Industry Year ( 1986 ) , and the more recent DTI initiatives . |
| 28 | Over the past ten years recruitment of nurses has been relatively ease Neither a great deal of effort nor man hours has been dedicated to the process . |
| 29 | Over the past ten years it has been government policy to encourage this ( DHSS , 1976a ) . |
| 30 | My own personal experience over the past ten years belies this . |