Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] over [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the interior had been very much altered over the years and little original work of consequence remained visible . |
| 2 | Lewis had a distinctive manner of lecturing , which was not greatly altered over the years . |
| 3 | There has not been too much building to spoil the village , and the population has not greatly altered over the years , so it is a pleasant village in which to live . |
| 4 | There are Early American patchwork quilts in red and white , an 1840 American cradle and a homely 20-dollar porch chair , all collected over the years . |
| 5 | It is a condition that has so worsened over the years that I no longer dare perform introductions I simply mumble ’ You two must know each other ’ and leave them to sort it out . |
| 6 | There was also a lot of clay in one part of the garden and sand in the rest , but the soil has been much improved over the years by generous additions of peat . |
| 7 | When she felt she could not naturally stand by the window any longer she went and inspected the gritty old review copies of books which had somehow collected over the years on the office shelves — Take Your Car to North Africa ! |
| 8 | A good deal of the historical footage I had already seen over the years and some of it , such as the dreadful footage of the Warsaw Ghetto , was only too familiar . |
| 9 | In brief , social class inequalities in access and use of the health services have remained either unaltered or slightly reduced but they have not increased over the years since the last war . |
| 10 | He was a loquacious and precocious boy , drinking double brandies at the age of eighteen — a habit which did not change over the years . |
| 11 | The overall rate of social mobility increased during the period but the chances of working-class youths reaching the top positions have not only been always lower than those of young people of higher socio-economic family backgrounds , but these differences have not changed over the years . |
| 12 | Harry , who lives in Earlstone House , a residential home in Coniscliffe Road , believes cricket has not changed over the years . |
| 13 | These stylistic differences have gradually eroded over the years , and today regional divisions have all but disappeared . |
| 14 | The funding of capital expenditure is usually spread over the years that benefit will accrue . |
| 15 | The programme was gradually effected over the years , with interruptions for the trailer and OMO programmes , the last car 709 being rebuilt in 1980 ! |
| 16 | John Greame built Sewerby Hall on the site of the old manor house in 1715 and the property was gradually extended over the years , being completed by the adding of the conservatory in Victorian times . |
| 17 | The furniture , too , looked as if it had been gradually acquired over the years ; gifts , rejects , the unregarded remnants of long-forgotten jumble sales . |
| 18 | The works production shops were to remain laid out in the form described for progressive building and repairing , only marginally altering over the years to accommodate new designs and techniques , such as the Stanier all steel body panelling design of the early 1930s . |
| 19 | That is to say , the initiatives that are under way , far from alleviating concerns repeatedly expressed over the years , appear to be confirming the worst suspicions of teachers and other commentators . |
| 20 | With increasing oceanicity , precipitation increases and is more uniformly distributed over the year , the number of ‘ wet ’ days increases , and humidity and wind speeds rise , while annual temperature range decreases ( Poore & McVean 1957 , McVean & Ratcliffe 1962 ) . |
| 21 | Garment workers , who were paid really bad wages and had a strike and struggled for union recognition , and I think that 's the thing that women have gone on doing over the years . |
| 22 | Days with measurable rainfall ( >0.2mm ) are fairly evenly spread over the year , with monthly averages ranging from 17 to 26 , and a total of 263 days ( Manley 1979 ) , of which 200 are ‘ wet ’ , with more than 1 mm recorded . |
| 23 | The CPRW 's Pembrokeshire Branch has been strongly committed over the years to ensuring that the Dyfed Structure Plan , the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Plan and all local plans pay due regard to the need to protect the environmental quality of the area . |
| 24 | ‘ All our things are country things that have been well used over the years , and we use them all the time , and live with them , and enjoy them . ’ |
| 25 | The notion that you have a group of children that you can categorize , say like partially sighted , or maladjusted , or educationally subnormal , and that they should have a special education , is one that 's been increasingly challenged over the years and I think the Warnock Report actually moves considerably away from that notion and says no , we do n't want to separate off a particular group because they appear to have a single erm or even a multiple disability , what we want to do is to look at the needs of each individual child and ask what is it about that particular child that makes the achievement of education objectives more difficult than another child . |
| 26 | I never doubted what I was feeling , but I was shocked when it did n't fade over the years , and I went through phases of trying to convince myself that it was some sort of obsession , a perverse desire for the one woman I believed I could never have — or not in the way I wanted you , loving me as well as wanting me . ’ |
| 27 | Furniture should be versatile enough to suit different needs and situations which might well change over the years . |
| 28 | The Prime Minister 's press conferences have become increasingly crowded over the years in what has been dubbed The Blue Hole of Calcutta . |
| 29 | But when Grainne came to the Castle , he knew himself lost , and he knew that the carapace so diligently acquired over the years was melting . |
| 30 | It will not please members of the Prison Officers Association , who have kept me well informed over the years . |