Example sentences of "[noun] over the last [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | The increasing stocking density evident in Powys over the last 3 decades also explains the broadleaved woodland regeneration problem and clarifies why such woods are now often grazed to billiard table-like turf when in the more distant past grazing levels must have been low enough to allow regeneration . |
| 4 | Parcelforce has made a loss over the last two years , despite strong efforts to turn the business around . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Central government has sunk over 1,200 waterholes in southern and western provinces over the last ten years , and continues to sink about 150 boreholes a year in Lusaka alone . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I have immensely valued your advice , help , support , commitment , encouragement and above all your friendship over the last six years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Yes Please ’ and problems within the Mondays taking their toll over the last year-and-a-half . |
| 11 | After all , she had had lots of practice over the last four years ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The fast-swimming Dall 's porpoise has been particularly hard hit in the North Pacific and hundreds of thousands of animals over the last 20 years have been entangled in the giant drift-nets of the salmon , squid , and tuna fisheries . |
| 16 | It is difficult to provide any comparable data over the last thirty years and though the general impression is one of slight reduction in socio-economic inequalities in GP consultation , this should not be taken for granted . |
| 17 | Dolphin , which has been developing SCI over the last two years , will add its own SCI-based multi-processing system using the Motorola Inc 88110 later this year . |
| 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 | I presume you have access to the various briefing papers we have circulated to branches over the last 18 months or so . |
| 20 | A dramatic increase in the crime over the last eighteen months has hit clothing companies hard . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Thousands of Italians have settled in the North-East over the last hundred years . |
| 24 | ‘ York 's football over the last two years makes Berwick v Arbroath relatively breathtaking , ’ he says . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This has come about partly as a result of research over the last 10 years or so into various forms of involvement in the teaching of reading . |
| 27 | Research over the last sixty years has demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that , for many people , unemployment is responsible for deterioration in mental and physical health . |
| 28 | erm The Schools Council , erm as you may remember , has been putting millions of pounds into educational research over the last dozen years , and all kinds of new curriculum ideas and patterns of organisation have emerged . |
| 29 | Jones is in a Merseyside clinic after losing a stone and a half in weight over the last seven days . |
| 30 | Before gaining the commercial weight of the mighty Epic Records , Martyn Joseph had already established a considerable market for his songs , having recorded on independent record labels over the last six years , including his own . |