Example sentences of "[noun] over the last ten years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Central government has sunk over 1,200 waterholes in southern and western provinces over the last ten years , and continues to sink about 150 boreholes a year in Lusaka alone . |
| 2 | A shift in the financial management of football over the last ten years has brought a new and more aggressive generation of directors to the forefront of the game . |
| 3 | He believes the government has generally down-graded people working in the public services sector over the last ten years , with university teachers having fared particularly badly as far as pay is concerned . |
| 4 | Mr , er a moment ago congratulated the County Council in fact on the success of the strategy in reducing migration over the last ten years or so . |
| 5 | As anyone who has n't been in a media-induced coma over the last ten years knows , her trite ditties are irrelevant to the story — IM |
| 6 | I want to welcome obviously particularly er the order relating to Wales because it confers on Wales er one additional seat , giving us five altogether because of the rise in the Welsh population over the last ten years and that er although Wales was under represented under the previous erm er you know distribution of seats which gave us only four we will be slightly over represented when we have five because you simply ca n't have four and a half seats , it 's got to be one or the other but since the Welsh population is continuing to rise very rapidly then it is likely that that will be put right . |
| 7 | First , there has been a high degree of parallel and interactive effort by scientific , political and public information initiative over the last ten years . |
| 8 | Closer to home is the trauma faced by social workers over the last ten years . |
| 9 | I 've taken eight antidepressants over the last ten years , Prozac has n't been one of them I must admit . |
| 10 | Many of the significant trends in Spanish art over the last ten years are represented : the return to expressionism of Sicilia , Sevilla and Barcelo , the lyrical style of Campano and Broto , the monumental sculpture of Susana Solano and the geometrical works of Sergi Aguilar , not forgetting the surrealist objects of Pepe Espaliu and the metaphysical inspiration of Dis Berlin . |
| 11 | Mr and Mr , quite rightly as a matter of fact , suggest that er most of the employment development over the last ten years has taken place on the north side of York . |
| 12 | The NHS is one of the main election issues for Lynne , who says she has seen many changes in the service over the last ten years . |
| 13 | His images have appeared again and again in the magazine over the last ten years ( the most recent was on the cover of the cancer issue ) . |
| 14 | Consumer belief in " safer " bottled water has led to the quadrupling of sales over the last ten years . |
| 15 | And er certainly in teaching there 's been quite a big change over the last ten years in the way that people perceive retirement . |
| 16 | The medium-term one I would say is to do with broadly the attitudes of society towards education , and those attitudes have in fact undergone a fairly substantial change over the last ten years or so . |
| 17 | The scepticism is born out of two small signs over the last ten years . |
| 18 | There has been a plethora of books on country houses over the last ten years , but author and illustrator Peter Morter and Brian Delf , have found a new and intriguing approach . |
| 19 | But that is the risk one runs when , as has been the case over the last ten years , one feels duty-bound to give an immediate account of what is going on , without distancing oneself sufficiently from the subject matter . |
| 20 | There was nothing in our press release , in fact the contrary , criticising the Labour Party Officers going to Brussels where we 've had tremendous support over the last ten years . |
| 21 | Mr Wood noted that the taste for English watercolours had developed considerably in the US over the last ten years through the support of the Paul Mellon Foundation as well as the efforts of dealers like himself . |
| 22 | £221 million in tax could be easily saved by the simple use of the tax-efficient financial products which have been introduced by the Government over the last ten years ; |
| 23 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |
| 24 | More than £4m has been spent on reclaiming derelict land in Darlington over the last ten years . |
| 25 | The District Council has accommodated the highest proportion of Greater York growth of all the districts surrounding York over the last ten years , and therefore I think it likely that it would expected to accommodate the largest proportion of the fourteen hundred dwellings that would be accommodated in the new settlement , erm I do not think that any of the settlements or that there is sufficient land within the Southern Ryedale area to accommodate that level of development without adversely affecting character of the settlements , or compromising greenbelt objectives , as I mentioned this morning , and also I question whether or not erm whether th most of the settlements in the Southern Ryedale area have only a minimal s minimal service base anyway on which to tack any large housing growths , and I do n't necessarily foresee any subsequent rise in the service base of those settlements as a result of the housing being added on to them . |
| 26 | The new approach to assessment has been one of the most important changes in vocational education and training over the last ten years . |
| 27 | However , the increasing interest in discourse and text analysis over the last ten years has sharpened awareness of some crucial differences . |
| 28 | One turns out to be the Greek Revival Sheriff Courthouse ( 1841 ) in the centre of Glasgow , which is an unprecedented gesture on the part of this Edinburgh-based institution towards is traditional rival , Glasgow , the rough-tough merchant city which has so improved its image over the last ten years through an enlightened cultural policy . |
| 29 | Mr Fallon says that everyone knows living standards have risen in the North over the last ten years . |
| 30 | BELOW : The walled kitchen garden at Fenton House in Hampstead has been restored by the Trust over the last ten years ( National Trust Photographic Library/Ian Shaw ) |