Example sentences of "[noun] over [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is her most ambitious work , surveying the history of European textiles over some 1,000 years , from late Antiquity to the fifteenth century . |
| 2 | On one level a site guide , on another this is a mini-textbook describing changing society at one place over four thousand years . |
| 3 | And while Taiwan prohibits the export of antiques ( items over one hundred years old ) , it does allow the import of antiques for exhibition purposes ; it is therefore conceivable that the government might alter its restrictions to allow antiques to be imported for sale and subsequent export ’ . |
| 4 | Meantime , the 38F shed shop , to the rear of the establishment has raised some considerable sums over several past years towards the completion of the locomotive . |
| 5 | The fact that we had a more open policy over those ten years has actually infiltrated into or irrigated the BBC and ITV , but you will still see a great area of editorial heads , or heads of departments , the equivalents of the commissioning editors , the executive heads , where there are very few women . |
| 6 | The four quarterly effects ( which we are assuming to be invariant during the time span of the data ) can now be estimated from the averages of corresponding quarters over these seven years . |
| 7 | This study , which derives from previous field research on migrants in Europe , compares British and French experience over some 200 years . |
| 8 | The pace of change over those 20 years would be remarkable ; and the vital first steps rapidly followed the outbreak of war with Spain in spring 1898 . |
| 9 | It could mean bringing somewhere between about ten and fifteen million pounds into Shropshire over that six years from Europe , into , into Shropshire , not in the whole of March 's area , but into Shropshire , during that period , to help projects in the rural west of the county . |
| 10 | Did you keep in touch with Sir Conrad over all those years when he was away ? ’ |
| 11 | The trade unions have sustained the Labour party over all these years and Labour gave the trade unions the appalling powers which were so badly abused in the run-up to the 1979 election when , as we all know , the country was brought to its knees by a new strike almost every week . |
| 12 | Much of his energy over these last years had been devoted to alchemical experiments to find a new alphabet capable of spelling the English language . |