Example sentences of "[noun] over the last couple of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mind you , I 'm regarded more as a provider than a goalscorer and I have n't done too badly in that department over the last couple of years . ’ |
| 2 | We think that it conserves services , that it has searched out the vast majority of efficiencies that we can find within this council and that it does n't pass on to the poll tax , council tax payers the fruits , I mean it does pass on the poll tax or council tax payers the fruits of how we have achieved savings and efficiencies over the last couple of years . |
| 3 | If nothing else , the relative lack of action over the last couple of nights would ensure a good sleep before setting off home . |
| 4 | The seemingly inexorable march of new technology in the newspaper industry has taken on a new complexion over the last couple of weeks . |
| 5 | Much has been written about training shoes over the last couple of years , as the style magazines and the newspapers have tried to come to terms with the massive increase in the popularity of the trainer . |
| 6 | FLACO HAS been involved in some fun collaborations over the last couple of decades — his trembling accordion signature on Ry Cooder 's ‘ He 'll Have To Go ’ and the peppy bits on Dwight Yoakam 's ‘ Streets Of Bakersfield ’ are two good examples . |
| 7 | The policy of this council over the last couple of years has been to get down to that figure enforced upon us as gracefully as possible with the least damage to our services and the least damage to the morale of our staff and our staff are after all the most important asset that a local authority possesses and that is what we 're trying to consider . |
| 8 | The volume of beer sold through Greenall 's pubs over the last couple of months has shown a fall on 1988 levels , said the group financial director , Mr Michael Davis , as he unveiled profits up 10.5 per cent to £52million for the year to September . |
| 9 | The various pros and cons have been discussed and highlighted in the Journal over the last couple of years so I will not repeat them , although printing costs of the vouchers must be very high compared with a ‘ one off card ’ . |
| 10 | Mr O'Hare suspects that ‘ not that many [ profit sharing schemes ] have been put in place over the last couple of years ’ because of the cash flow drain represented by the company 's contributions to the fund . |
| 11 | Sun 's German users in particular are said to favour the Motif option , and IXI has been out testing the waters on both sides of the Atlantic over the last couple of weeks . |
| 12 | It had become a familiar sound over the last couple of days . |
| 13 | But , for a reader coming for the first time to the subject , this can not give a sense of the rightness , diversity and very real differences in feminist art history and criticism over the last couple of decades . |
| 14 | United have been tumbling into trouble over the last couple of weeks … last time they won was Denis Smith 's first match as manager … |
| 15 | But he 's developed his game over the last couple of years very well . |
| 16 | SOUND ADVICE Over the last couple of years , newspapers have been full of articles about financial advisers , like Barlow Clowes and the Levitt Group , that have gone bust . |
| 17 | Oils , impasted thickly onto large canvases , layer over layer , spread like butter , then gouged to show the textures and folds of paint already lying beneath , have dominated Dariusz Romanowski 's painting style over the last couple of years . |
| 18 | But let's not ignore the fact that , despite this , rock has been undergoing a certain process of feminisation over the last couple of years . |
| 19 | ‘ We are certainly bearing in mind Nathan Munson , who has been in excellent form for the Youths over the last couple of months , ’ explained McDonough . |
| 20 | Its success , Clohossey speculates , was due to the resurgence of interest in Eastern Europe over the last couple of years . |
| 21 | The diehard Smiths fans who 've been turning their backs on Morrissey over the last couple of years would be wise to give this a spin and do jerky , twisty , dancing type things in their front room . ’ |
| 22 | That is indeed part of their strategy but the fact of the matter is that the county council is wholly implicated in the efforts that have been made in this erm county over the last couple of years to get large scale inward investment . |
| 23 | Maybe the weight itself of thousands of boys over the last couple of decades had led to some sort of subsidence . |
| 24 | And all these pleasures , these frail joys that her most stringent discipline over the last couple of night-time hours had summoned up for her memory , they were simply not enough . |
| 25 | QUITE WHAT provoked head Skinster Michael Gira 's hippyesque conversion over the last couple of years is , at present , still unknown . |
| 26 | QUITE WHAT provoked head Skinster Michael Gira 's hippyesque conversion over the last couple of years is , at present , still unknown . |
| 27 | But Gary Marsh , head of research with the Halifax , the UK 's biggest building society , says it is inevitable that the modest improvement seen in the market over the last couple of months — especially in the South , where sellers have started to adjust to more realistic levels — will be damaged and the date of its recovery put back . |
| 28 | The Atari ST has dominated the 16-bit market over the last couple of years as a ‘ dual purpose ’ machine . |