Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] over [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even with all the other general fund-raising that goes on over the year , it is pleasing that you still run or participate in events that are specifically for the Society ; we have again benefited from Raffles , Cake Sales , Bring and Buys , Good as New , Cheese-and-Wines , Coffee Mornings — AND — Sponsored Slims ! |
| 2 | The simple service has not altered basically over the years . |
| 3 | Manpower had come down over the years from 470,000 in 1960 to 215,000 twenty years later , but the business was still over-staffed . |
| 4 | Many will recall the church as it was , for there is no indication that it changed greatly over the years . |
| 5 | Channel shares had varied somewhat over the years , quite apart from the changes caused by the introduction of BBC2 and Channel 4 ( Table 6.18 ) . |
| 6 | This proved to be quite unacceptable , and the French Code moved progressively over the years towards allowing judges more and more discretion to vary punishments on precisely these grounds . |
| 7 | Do schools take their small-scale budgetary approaches , built up over the years by dealing with capitation , or do they reappraise their resource management approach ? |
| 8 | But the lesson of the Kennedy case is that if you have the chance to take another job before your redundancy has been confirmed , you may have to choose between safeguarding your future and cashing in on the job rights built up over the years in your present employment . |
| 9 | The strength of the economy has been founded on small family businesses and farms built up over the years by hard work and self-denial . |
| 10 | Bardul uses this chamber to store an amazing range of things which he has picked up over the years in the hope that one day they might be useful . |
| 11 | The computer part of the study has been my personal research interest , but it has also over the years provided stimulating final-year projects for students in the Engineering Mathematics Department . |
| 12 | More repairs have been carried out over the years — the most recent and probably most rewarding is the cleaning , repointing and replacing of stonework — all done by one of the parishioners . |
| 13 | Mobilisations , deployments and manoeuvres have been carried out over the years to discourage resistance to Communist takeover ( Czechoslovakia 1948 ) , to block undesired contacts with West Berlin ( 19 separate occasions , including two seizures of West Berlin territory ) , to apply pressure in negotiations ( Norway and the Barents Sea ) , and to mask intentions in crisis ( Czechoslovakia 1968 and Poland 1981 ) . |
| 14 | She answered Berlin ; it was a city she had come to know well over the years . |
| 15 | Product differentiation and improvement has been occurring steadily over the years and now includes metal and wooden window frames , doors , storage tanks , household furniture , beds , as well as a much improved range of braziers , and tin trunks . |
| 16 | After climbing steadily over the years , the percentage supported by government reached a peak in England and Wales of 66.5 per cent in 1975/6 . |
| 17 | On another level , for example , the size of office premises has grown tremendously over the years . ’ |
| 18 | The club paid him the princely sum of £8 , a fee that has not risen much over the years according to some of Celtic 's more dour stars . |
| 19 | Seaton has not grown much over the years due to lack of building land , though there are now new terrace-type cottages in the centre of the village . |
| 20 | Montreal is an unusual city , made up of 50 villages which have grown and merged together over the years to form the modern conurbation : about 100 square kilometres in size ( 60 square miles ) , encircled by the St. Lawrence River . |
| 21 | She had given up counting the number of marriage proposals she had turned down over the years . |
| 22 | Public expenditure has , as indicated , grown rapidly over the years , largely alongside steady growth in the economy generally . |
| 23 | Such courses which may relate to graphic design , fashion/textile design , interior design , and product design are usually of similar duration to those leading to CNAA degrees , that is three years full-time , and the numbers taking them have grown gradually over the years . |
| 24 | Few have done more over the years to encourage and inspire the growth and development of tennis by putting it on as professional footing as possible . |
| 25 | Just finally looking back over a career that spans now five decades , is there anything you 'd have done differently over the years ? |
| 26 | Jesus chucked out the rubbish from the temple and swept away some of the traditions that had grown up over the years , insisting that his house become again a house of prayer for all nations . |
| 27 | It 's grown up over the years erm in fact I do n't think it counts as much , nearly as much now , as it used to . |
| 28 | They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years . |
| 29 | There are cert certain categories of business that we 've built up over the year . |
| 30 | And , somehow , my savings , carefully built up over the years , were starting to run dry . |