Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] britain over the " in BNC.

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1 One of the dominant social characteristics of Britain over the past fifty years has been the degree of upward social mobility of those whose parents held traditional working-class jobs .
2 They seem to be working their way around the main shopping areas of Britain over the last two years .
3 To understand the significance of these most recent changes , it is first necessary to review the main trends in social mobility in Britain over the past fifty years , before considering those developments that have become more marked since the mid-1970s .
4 Given the number of prominent cases of judicial error in Britain over the past few years — Guildford Four , Birmingham Six , Stefan Kiszcko , the Tottenham Three and Judith Ward — it is not an abstract question .
5 Welsh Tourism announced that it is to spend over £7.5 million on marketing in Britain over the next three years .
6 What is certain , however , is that these structural and geographical changes in the population have , in combination , produced a profound transformation in the population size and composition of most places in Britain over the past two decades .
7 His recital of the history of the archbishops ' exercise of authority over the whole of Britain over the centuries is punctuated by quotations from Gregory , proclaiming the claims of antiquity as a model for future conduct .
8 To understand this we need to look at the history of cultural theory and criticism in Britain over the last twenty to thirty years .
9 The National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has set out its proposals for the development of water resources in Britain over the next 30 years .
10 The government , says Roith , should take some of the credit for the growth in computer literacy in Britain over the past half a decade .
11 Changes in mortality have influenced the marital status composition of the older age groups in Britain over the last century .
12 The marked improvement in the terms of trade for Britain over the early '50s permitted a rise in real wages despite a decline in Britain 's exports , while a substantial inflow of American direct private investment helped to boost capital accumulation .
13 Data processing has been a key employment growth area in Britain over the past decade .
14 The first report to investigate the projected effects of global warming on Britain over the next 40 years has been released by the Department of the Environment .
15 THE STORY of vertebrate life in Britain over the past 2 million years or so is fascinating .
16 It quickly outgrew its humble illegal origins to dominate social life in Britain over the last six months at least .
17 Rhetorically , the central organising theme of the debates on the inner city in Britain over the last three years has been the problem of exporting the successes of the rest of the nation to this extraordinary conceptual space .
18 The remit which I set myself is to examine in outline the ways in which the political parties have both responded to and helped to shape the pertinent social collectivities in Britain over the post-war years , and how the activities of political forces have been constrained by , and have served to maintain or transform , the economic class relations of British capitalism .
19 The purpose of this project is to investigate the flows into and out of unemployment in Britain over the past twenty years .
20 China has agreed to resume talks with Britain over the future of Hong Kong .
21 First we examine the trends in population structure in Britain over the last century and the forecasts for the early decades of the next millennium .
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