Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] over the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the dominant social characteristics of Britain over the past fifty years has been the degree of upward social mobility of those whose parents held traditional working-class jobs . |
| 2 | Black Holes are fascinating , and have caused a great deal of excitement over the past 20 years . |
| 3 | Interim reporting has been attracting a great deal of attention over the past year . |
| 4 | Other polls have been published in the newspapers , however , and the issue has gained a good deal of attention over the past few weeks . |
| 5 | Seen from the outside the nature , and above all , the neck-breaking speed of achievements over the past two months may seem remarkable . |
| 6 | It is important that the purpose of this criticism should not be misunderstood ; the theoretical and experimental contributions that the Aplysia group have made to the cellular study of memory over the past two decades have been substantial , but the very intellectual certainty of the group and the charisma of its leader have tended to suppress some of its problems and sideline those who have articulated them . |
| 7 | One big piece of deregulation over the past ten years will be hard to reverse : the freeing of interest rates . |
| 8 | A review of debates over the past two or three years reveals another unusual aspect . |
| 9 | In several incidents in the eastern part of Germany over the past two months the Russians have continued to act like occupiers — and drawn only mild reproof from the German government . |
| 10 | Amnesty said that the torture of those detained by the army and police was a daily routine , and that it had received reports of more than 200 cases of torture over the past two years , but believed the true figure to be much higher . |
| 11 | The multi-million pound trail of destruction over the past 12 months includes the following outrages : |
| 12 | There has been a vast impoverishment of people over the past decades . |
| 13 | The major portion of the consumption of energy over the past 100 years has been due to the industrialisation of what is now called the Developed World . |
| 14 | In addition , I have as a consultant — and on behalf of the National Children 's Bureau — been working with a team from the University of London Institute of Education over the past two years or so , to distil the lessons from this research for local and health authorities . |
| 15 | Freeman , a BAIE member , initiated British Gas 's sponsorship of the Bobby Charlton sports school , which has enabled 10,000 youngsters all over Britain to receive free tuition in a wide range of sports over the past four years . |
| 16 | Leaving aside the numerous examples of the rise and fall of parties over the past century , there are many instances of change even in the relatively short period of time since the end of the Second World War . |
| 17 | I 'm at the moment chairing a university working party on sexual harassment erm and what this working party erm intends to do is to try to survey experience gathered from the operation of codes and the appointment of people in college with a special responsibility for this sort of thing over the past few years , to see what we can learn from experience , so I 'd want to reserve judgement at the moment on what this committee might recommend is the best way forwards . |
| 18 | Jackson , Mississippi-based LDDS Communications Inc , Metromedia Communications Corp and Resurgens Communications Group Inc have now reached the letter of intent stage in their plan to merge with LDDS shareholders retaining about 68.5% of the combined company and John Kluge , chairman of Metromedia , expected to be chairman of the combined company with Bernard Ebbers , LDDS chief executive , taking that post ; the combined company will be the fourth largest long-distance carrier in the US , a title that has been held by a whole string of companies over the past few years . |
| 19 | They range in size from microscopic flatworms to the giant squid and by the process of evolution over the past hundreds of millions of years , have adapted an amazing variety of different ways of perpetuating their own kind . |
| 20 | In the UK the process of privatization over the past nine years has moved utilities from public to private ownership , again under a regime of regulation ( Vickers and Yarrow , 1988 ) . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that Greenpeace direct actions have changed the face of environmentalism and the meaning of conservation over the past few years . |
| 22 | The record of capitalism over the past 200 years in transforming the standard of living of the Western world is remarkable . |
| 23 | Coal , West Germany 's only significant indigenous resource , has enjoyed two drastic changes of fortune over the past twenty years or so . |
| 24 | Despite this minimal preparation , and regular changes of personnel over the past fortnight , they achieved a wholly implausible blend of skill , aggression and indomitable spirit . |
| 25 | As a rounded account of the rise of Saddam it has one serious failing in that it pays far too little attention to the economic and social development of Iraq over the past 20 years . |
| 26 | John Farrant will be talking about the development of Brighton over the past three hundred years and how patterns of trade and commerce have tended to repeat themselves . |
| 27 | If we look at the development of computers over the past 30 years we see accelerated change of a phenomenal nature . |
| 28 | I have had the immense privilege of serving the people of Worcester over the past 30 years . |
| 29 | The University 's strategy of expansion over the past few years has been aimed to take full advantage of the UFC 's new policy of rewarding those universities that have demonstrated their willingness and ability to expand by retrospectively awarding full grant for an increased number of so-called fully funded students . |
| 30 | As an example , suppose the nominal interest rate is 15 per cent per annum and that the rate of inflation over the past year has been 10 per cent . |