Example sentences of "[noun sg] over [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's been something like twenty per cent cut over the last few years and erm some faculty members have taken early retirement and left , so a lot of subjects have lost some of their most able people . |
| 2 | She well be reviewing the foundation 's programme over the last few years with the aim of identifying any gaps or areas where new initiatives might be needed . |
| 3 | A representative of the mainly-Muslim Bosnian army , which seized the village in fierce fighting over the last five days , said they would not be harmed if they stayed . |
| 4 | Economic thinking over the last 40 years , the report observed , had shifted dramatically away from the promotion of state-directed industrialization towards a more " market-friendly " approach to development , but " markets sometimes prove inadequate or fail altogether " and " governments must , for example , invest in infrastructure and provide essential services to the poor " . |
| 5 | Parcelforce has made a loss over the last two years , despite strong efforts to turn the business around . |
| 6 | Oats are the safest and most natural grain to give to horses ; they have been part of the development of the horse over the last two thousand years . |
| 7 | We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century . |
| 8 | Still panting , she struggled to maintain a vestige of self-respect as the press demanded a full briefing of her domestic itinerary over the last 24 hours . |
| 9 | I have immensely valued your advice , help , support , commitment , encouragement and above all your friendship over the last six years . |
| 10 | A SOLDIER was killed by an IRA sniper last night — victim No. 3,001 in Ulster 's grim death toll over the last 23 years . |
| 11 | Yes Please ’ and problems within the Mondays taking their toll over the last year-and-a-half . |
| 12 | Whilst there may well be every justification for such developments , which have been growing steadily since the 1950s but with increasing rapidity over the last decade , these emphases do undermine the notion of RBs as being wholly concerned with liberal adult education . |
| 13 | It might be say at equal opportunities which we 've worked at a very great deal over the last year . |
| 14 | After all , she had had lots of practice over the last four years ! |
| 15 | Much of geography over the last 40 years has been concerned with analysing these subsystems by breaking down each subsystem into ever smaller component parts and studying these parts , and their interrelationships , at an increasing level of detail . |
| 16 | Pictures of stars who have made most contribution to the music industry over the last 25 years featured at a glittering party in New York 's Four Seasons Restaurant . |
| 17 | At the first stage of the project , a selective economic history of the industry over the last 120 years was compiled ( B/00/23/2070 ) . |
| 18 | The painstaking work on the wreck undertaken by the amateur Chelmsford Sub-Acqua Club over the last twelve years will be the subject of an exhibition at the Maritime Museum this year . |
| 19 | ‘ Mind you , I 'm regarded more as a provider than a goalscorer and I have n't done too badly in that department over the last couple of years . ’ |
| 20 | Dealers have reported some very heavy selling of the nil-paid stock over the last fortnight and yesterday 's rise , with the ordinary shares up 16 at 693p and the rights stock up 16 at 85p , was dismissed as a technical bounce . |
| 21 | Net Trust has launched into action over the last few months in different areas . |
| 22 | If nothing else , the relative lack of action over the last couple of nights would ensure a good sleep before setting off home . |
| 23 | The fact that the hordes of reporters who live in the burrows of the Palace of Westminster got it wrong — and have since tried to justify getting it wrong — has given me , and many of my friends who knew the score pretty accurately before the result , much quiet pleasure over the last few days . |
| 24 | From another quarter , Baroness Faithfull took issue in 1979 with the ‘ simplistic belief ’ in the short-sharp-shock remedy which she viewed as no less foolish than ‘ the theories of those false prophets of permissiveness at whose door must be laid a considerable part of the blame for the rise in crime over the last two decades ’ . |
| 25 | A dramatic increase in the crime over the last eighteen months has hit clothing companies hard . |
| 26 | The hearings system is claimed to have turned thousands of youngsters away from a life of crime over the last 20 years , but because of the confidential nature of the work done by reporters and panel members , much of the evidence is anecdotal . |
| 27 | Thousands of Italians have settled in the North-East over the last hundred years . |
| 28 | Magritte has performed extremely well at auction over the last few years , according to Melanie Clore of Sotheby 's Impressionist Pictures Department . |
| 29 | A shift in the financial management of football over the last ten years has brought a new and more aggressive generation of directors to the forefront of the game . |
| 30 | ‘ York 's football over the last two years makes Berwick v Arbroath relatively breathtaking , ’ he says . |