Example sentences of "be [vb pp] over the [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way the work-force has been treated over the last few years , the uncertainty that 's been created and the lack of consultation , the impact on their lives of such a closure on people who have been expecting to be there until they retire — their jobs may well go , and the impact on that , both for their own lives as well as their families . |
| 2 | To encourage mobility , two separate initiatives , both covered by EC Directives , have been developed over the last few years . |
| 3 | A new framework of national awards in engineering has been developed over the last few years . |
| 4 | For instance , in one of the lectures we were talking about how you know how heavy an atom is , and my colleague , Mike Pendlebury , was describing how you can actually do this by weighing a crystal and counting the number of atoms in it , erm this is certainly not the traditional way , it 's a way that 's been developed over the last few years . |
| 5 | been attacked over the last few months of not wasting time on the hunt I spend an awful lot of time relieving heavy goods traffic in my area , concerned totally about the environment , about mineral extraction quarries , mining , open cast , things of that calibre . |
| 6 | The hotel , which will have full conference , banqueting and leisure facilities — including an outdoor swimming pool — is the first Novotel venture in Ireland , but others are expected over the next few years . |
| 7 | All the hospitals in Southampton have been rebuilt over the past few years . |
| 8 | And , I mean , reluctantly we have to accept that this is not an ideal world , but I mean , just now , we were actually looking at the number of food hygiene inspections that have been done over the last few months , which have increased enormously , it just means , I mean it emphasises the fact that food has changed , food , and the number of places that are actually serving food now I mean , the corner shop does sandwiches . |
| 9 | Products — announcements are promised over the next few months — will ship direct and to OEM customers . |
| 10 | Products — announcements are promised over the next few months — will ship direct and to OEM customers . |
| 11 | There are frequent reports , some of them in the Soviet press , of bungling and inefficiency in both exploration and production , yet expert opinion on what the Soviet oil industry can achieve has been shown over the past few years to be wildly wrong . |
| 12 | Several other infinitely more damaging conversations involving him have been taped over the past few weeks . |
| 13 | The team has been restructured over the past few months . |
| 14 | Although warming has been detected over the last few decades , scientists claim that not enough is known about the natural temperature variations of the region to be able to come to any conclusions . |
| 15 | Thousands of pounds have been raised over the past few months by the local community and by Wirral council colleagues of the boys ' father Bob , who works in the highways and building services department . |
| 16 | This robustness has been proved over the past few years even through the economic downturns of the early 1980s . |
| 17 | However , Eleanor Young vice-chairman of the National Association of Community Health Councils and chairman of Darlington CHC , expressed concern that recent efforts to bring down the lists would not be sustained over the next few months and years . |
| 18 | Other parts of the hall complex will be developed over the next few months and should provide us with additional facilities . |
| 19 | It seems likely then that at least some of the renewable energy options will be pursued over the next few years . |
| 20 | The hospital is asking GPs only to send in only urgent cases … further operations are likely to be cancelled over the next few days |
| 21 | An attempt should be made over the next few years to answer this question in the light of experience and experimentation . |
| 22 | It is almost certain that unpopular new taxes and spending cuts will be imposed over the next few months ‘ in order to stay in Europe ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ The details of how the teams from both organisations will integrate will be decided over the next few months by a project team made up of staff from AEA and Warren Spring . ’ |
| 24 | There is much to be done over the next few months to achieve implementation in 1994/5 . |
| 25 | ‘ Some serious talking will need to be done over the next few weeks . |
| 26 | The rest will be collected over the next few days . |
| 27 | The national curriculum 's ‘ full benefits will be felt over the next few years , into the next century , ’ a Department of Education spokeswoman said . |
| 28 | Since new SVQs are being accredited almost on a monthly basis , SCOTVEC is introducing ‘ SVQ Accreditation Update ’ which will list all accredited SVQs and those expected to be approved over the ensuing few months . |
| 29 | SVQs in cleaning , sport and recreation , laundry and dry cleaning , and dairy trades will be introduced over the next few months . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , it is likely that answers to these questions will be found over the next few years , and that by the end of the century we shall know whether string theory is indeed the long sought-after unified theory of physics . |