Example sentences of "[noun] over the [adj] ten years " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Mr Shawcross , chairman of the examination board of the NUT , offered a similar contribution : he spoke of the " revolutionary change " in the teaching of English in elementary schools over the previous ten years , and he went on ( in the words of the bulletin report ) to give " his experience of Manchester children under the old system " : |
| 2 | Make arrangements satisfactory to patients and staff locally for the closure over the next ten years or so of those mental illness hospitals which are not well placed to provide a service reaching out into the community and are already near the end of their useful life . |
| 3 | NHS dentists ’ incomes have dropped in real terms by 40pc over the past ten years and the most recent savage cuts proposed , leave many practitioners worried about possible bankruptcy . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The contribution which adults other than teachers , both employers and trade unionists , can make to the school curriculum has gained widespread recognition over the past ten years , through the activities of the SCIP , the Royal Society of Arts Industry Year ( 1986 ) , and the more recent DTI initiatives . |
| 6 | Because of the political impasse over the past ten years Cambodia , one of the poorest countries in the world , has received no UN development aid , nor any bilateral or multilateral development aid from the UK . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | All the medical research over the past ten years has linked early sex with the onset of cervical cancer , a potential killer . |
| 9 | Well now the third factor , Greater York , has probably been the single most important planning issue for the county council and the Greater York districts over the past ten years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In a review of its work over the first ten years , its chairman , Lord Justice Sellers , claimed that the two institutions ‘ worked side by side in complete harmony and with some mutual assistance ’ . |
| 13 | Having researched extensively into critical writings on Thomas since the publication of the first edition , Anstey has retained seven of the original essays , adding a further seven to give a comprehensive collection reflecting some reappraisal of Thomas 's writings and also responses to new work over the past ten years . |
| 14 | Of course , Hodder 's table reflects a concept very close to the familiar annuity-depreciation method — the only difference being that the latter method would spread depreciation over the full ten years of the asset 's life . |
| 15 | Quoted in an interview in Pravda , Konovalov said that his ministry was set to triple output by 2000 , adding an extra 19,600 megawatts of capacity over the next ten years . |
| 16 | The principal feature of population redistribution revealed by the 1980/81 round of Censuses in advanced Western countries was a massive shift from the larger cities to smaller settlements and remoter rural areas over the previous ten years . |
| 17 | People want to spend their day forgetting about hard times — even if they pay it off in instalments over the next ten years . |
| 18 | One big piece of deregulation over the past ten years will be hard to reverse : the freeing of interest rates . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | But the system does not , so far , recognise brain injury , despite the enormous advances over the past ten years in the study of cognitive , behavioural and memory problems . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | First , there has been a high degree of parallel and interactive effort by scientific , political and public information initiative over the last ten years . |
| 23 | Figures just out show that coal imports have risen by five hundred percent over the past ten years . |
| 24 | Closer to home is the trauma faced by social workers over the last ten years . |
| 25 | The changing role of the governing body was also perceived as a key issue : as one head put it , ‘ There could be conflict over the next ten years as the governing bodies try to claim their legal rights and powers from the professionals . ’ |
| 26 | I 've taken eight antidepressants over the last ten years , Prozac has n't been one of them I must admit . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Shortly after the US trip , at a meeting of OAS ministers at punte del Este in Uruguay , Castro made an appeal for US$30 billion for Latin American development over the next ten years . |
| 30 | 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 . |