Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] over [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many will recall the church as it was , for there is no indication that it changed greatly over the years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The company soldiered on over the years and , up to 1962 , still used the water wheel installed during Wight 's time . |
| 7 | Arctic waters show no increased radiation levels from nuclear waste dumped there over the years by Soviet authorities . |
| 8 | I think this is one of the essentials in Harlow and something that people should not forget , that is that , although there is a great deal of criticism possibly of the standard of building that went on over the years of the Development Corporation , compared with what most people came from , there was a very great elevation both in quality and in ideas . |
| 9 | Oh yes they did for , for the increase in traffic I mean that er that er went on over the years gradually creep , creep , creep on until the whole atmosphere of the place was er I do n't know improved should you say or not I do n't know whether it 's er well it certainly has n't improved but erm it changed , it was such a lovely little place really , and of course you could run across the road whenever you liked I mean we used to play in Street of picking out in a sweet shop window er a name be Cadbury 's or chocolate or something you 'd be standing across the road and you 'd be running backwards and forwards backwards and forwards , there was no sign of anyone getting run over cos there was nothing about , and when I was a kid going to the Bluecoat School I 'd run across that bridge every morning without looking right or left , because if anything had hit me , well nothing used to be coming you could see a tram coming but oh there was nothing else at that time in the morning oh no it was , would n't like to run across today . |
| 10 | The story got about over the years that his lectures were very obscure . |
| 11 | The paint flaked off over the years . |
| 12 | The complexities proved to be even greater than expected , particularly since the rate of claim for compensation increased considerably over the years up to the setting up of the committee . |
| 13 | ‘ They met again over the years , too . |
| 14 | It is simpler for golfers , of course , because there is an over-50 competition , besides which golf does not depend so much upon eye and agility and by using the wrinkles picked up over the years a player may still be competitive in his 50th year , as Raymond Floyd conclusively proved in the Masters at Augusta . |