Example sentences of "a number of [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Situated on the edge of the attractive village of Tiffield , Ark Farm has evolved from a number of farms over the last 30 years . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ We have had a number of complaints over the last few months . ’ |
| 3 | But there 've been a number of changes over the years , certainly prior to nineteen seventy four that would be the case , water boards supplying water , local councils treating treating the sewage , and the rivers authorities looking after the river pollution aspects . |
| 4 | The mill had a number of owners over the years , its major business starting when , by the 1860s , it was taken over by Reece and Sandford . |
| 5 | Special thesaurus software has a number of advantages over the alternative , which is usually the use of a database package or a word processing package to store terms . |
| 6 | They had a number of fires over the years at 's Mill , er and one was in eighteen sixty six or sixty seven . |
| 7 | raises yet again a problem that has been before the Court of Appeal on a number of occasions over the past 10 years or so . |
| 8 | The implications for my daughter 's safety and security , and and mine and the rest of my family 's , because there have been a number of occasions over the years when I 've had to turn to the police because of my anxiety about that when there 's been a lot of attention from the media and when the press have published our address and so on erm and we 've had I 've had specific death threats particularly against my daughter on one occasion . |
| 9 | The advice on how to put planning for development into practice can be supported by the experiences shared by the Council and a number of bodies over the last three years . |
| 10 | The desirability of continued economic growth has been raised by a number of economists over the past decade and the titles of their publications make their conclusions clear — Does Money Buy Happiness ? |
| 11 | The deaths in police custody of a number of detainees over the years have also been controversial . |
| 12 | Benzie ( 1991 ) outlined a number of doubts over the general prospects for international bond issuance . |