Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [prep] [art] decade " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider then this year 's winner , the Mayan Indian peace-worker , Rigoberta Menchu , who has campaigned for the rights of Guatemala 's oppressed indigenous majority for over a decade . |
| 2 | Brown remained her adviser for over a decade , although she also sought occasional assistance from the painter ( Sir ) Edward Burne-Jones [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | The spillover effect of safety demands on costs , coupled with an economic recession , had effectively resulted in no new nuclear stations being ordered in the United States for over a decade . |
| 4 | He might have told her that in the United States for over a decade now , the journals and magazines and guide-to-life books , aided and abetted by manufacturers , traders , and advertisers , had sung the song of the perfect home and the perfect homemaker . |
| 5 | Situated in an ideal position on the front a Bellagio , the Du Lac has been a favourite with our clients for over a decade . |
| 6 | The conference , the first general feminist-socialist conference for over a decade , attracted over 400 women from across the country . |
| 7 | In local authorities , expanding competition through compulsory competitive tendering has shown many successes for about a decade . |
| 8 | On current spending education was essentially stabilised in real volume terms for over a decade , and the rates of growth in health and personal social services slowed down or ceased for some periods . |
| 9 | Additional benefits of tree-lined streams , in reducing the effects of nitrates and phosphates in the water and in shading out the choking growth of summer weed in a river bed , which may otherwise necessitate further expensive dredging , have been recognized by Dutch and German scientists for over a decade . |
| 10 | ‘ It will be a disaster if the current team is maintained , ’ said the former India captain , whose left-arm spin mesmerised batsmen around the world for over a decade . |
| 11 | Authorities say that the development will cause " no environmental problems " but the international conservation community , who have opposed the project for over a decade , strongly disagree . |
| 12 | Right , so you think that Margaret Thatcher , having been Prime Minister for over a decade and having nominated her heir apparent , and having left in erm a rather tearful manner and being pushed out , you think that she said ‘ right , from now on it 's hands off ’ ? |
| 13 | As the Thatcher government gradually recovered from a shaky and difficult start to retain power by a hugely increased majority in 1983 , followed by another overwhelming electoral triumph ( in seats if not in votes ) in 1987 and as the spectacle was observed in 1989 of a Prime Minister remaining in unchallenged power for over a decade , comparable to Lord Liverpool if not yet Robert Walpole in the past , the belief took hold that the values and style of modern Britain had been transformed . |
| 14 | To begin with , her assertion that the U.K. undergoes ‘ extreme political shifts ’ sounds most peculiar when one considers that the same party has been in power for over a decade . |
| 15 | Excellent training has been offered by the Metropolitan Forensic Science Laboratory for over a decade . |