Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] over the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decrease in the incidence of gastric carcinoma has been widely reported over the last three decades . |
| 2 | This can , as we have all seen over the last year or so in particular , have very severe effects on normally solvent companies . |
| 3 | The site , near modern Kerma , has been known since the 1920s but the city underneath has only emerged over the last ten years . |
| 4 | Synthetic cholecystokinin-8 ( 100 pg/ml final concentration ; Sigma , Germany ) was additionally infused over the last 20 minutes of the sampling period at a constant flow of 0.2 ml/minute to stimulate the exocrine pancreas . |
| 5 | Almost 300 have already gone over the last six years . |
| 6 | The proportion of old people living in cold homes has hardly changed over the last 20 years despite improvements in living conditions , a report shows . |
| 7 | She ached inside , a sensation that had once been very familiar , but which she had deliberately suppressed over the last four years until she had almost forgotten what it had felt like . |
| 8 | THE Scottish Football League programme has been badly affected over the last couple of weeks , not only by the injuries which might reasonably be expected at this stage in a crowded season , but , unusually , by a flu virus which has caused havoc in the playing staffs of some of the Premier Division teams . |
| 9 | The rule has been slightly relaxed over the last few years , although only in relation to secondary legislation ; it has also been breached from time to time by a number of judges , not least by judicial free spirit , the former Master of the Rolls , Lord Denning . |
| 10 | Employee relations manager George Piechniczek said : ‘ This sensitive issue has been extensively debated over the last few years and whilst the trade unions support the principle of protecting non-smokers at work , it has proved difficult to find a practical solution that satisfied all parties . ’ |
| 11 | The ground has been thoroughly explored over the last 250 years , which is one estimate of the span of art critical and art historical activity . |
| 12 | The products , internally tested over the last six months and now going into formal beta test , will be available direct and through value-added resellers in the current quarter . |
| 13 | The projected increase this year is a further 25% over 1991/92 prices , and since the Library 's budget this year is the same as last year , drastic cuts in subscriptions were essential to avoid further damaging our bookfund , which has already been substantially eroded over the last three years . |
| 14 | He changed his assessment in a Jan. 10 letter to the committee 's chairman Les Aspin , however , with the judgment that " the ability of Iraqi ground forces to defend Kuwait is unlikely to be substantially eroded over the next six to 12 months " and that " economic hardship alone is unlikely to compel Saddam to retreat " within that time . |
| 15 | You have n't even got over the first hurdle yet and you 're ready to quit ! |
| 16 | The arguments have been well rehearsed over the last year . |
| 17 | The Irish Times reported : ‘ He regards the Ovens factory as an ideal guinea-pig situation in which the workers , protected by the best current standards , would be medically tested going into the plant and continuously tested over the next 20 years in order to measure the exposure risk and the effectiveness of the standards ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ What you 're telling me , Tallboy , ’ said the Superintendent with practised distaste , ‘ is that the sum total of knowledge gleaned by almost the entire Medewich police force , continuously engaged over the last ten days comes to this : Paul Gray was murdered on Thursday or Friday July first or second , somewhere between Markham cum Cumbermound and Medewich , by persons unknown , at a time not yet established , at a place not yet identified , for an as yet undiscovered reason . |
| 19 | CENTRA is the successor to NWRAC ( formerly ULCI ) whose course schemes and certificates in Machine Knitting have become well established over the last 30 years . |
| 20 | The benefit plus arrangement has become well established over the last four years and it makes sense to use it for Community Action . |
| 21 | Through this vehicle there developed over the next decade a growing tendency to become more actively involved with movements which were advocating de-segregation and black civil rights in the Southern States . |
| 22 | The population of Hanoi has almost doubled over the last 30 years , but inadequate planning and sanitation measures during the expansion of the city have resulted in chronic subsidence and drainage problems . |
| 23 | She had barely skimmed over the last few paragraphs of information , used to Debbie 's ridiculous ideas about a person 's birth sign giving a clue to his character , but now the temptation to find out proved too great . |
| 24 | The ( 348 GT ) Three Four Eight Gee Tee production model has been painstakingly prepared over the last seven weeks . |
| 25 | was all a load of nonsense and you 've certainly proved over the last twenty five years how ridiculous whoever started that story was . |