Example sentences of "[noun] over the [adj] twenty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one section of youth , the ‘ upwardly mobile , individualistic fraction of the ( male ) British working class ’ — epitomised by young dockers and construction workers — the restructuring of British industry over the past twenty years has produced relative prosperity . |
| 2 | I ca n't think of anywhere that the stage designs have been more consistently imaginative and beautifully realized than in Salzburg over the last twenty years . |
| 3 | The problem was that Barlaston sat above one of the richest coal mines in Europe and the whole village was expected to sink forty feet over the next twenty years . |
| 4 | Take the Bunnymen , overlay every cartoon watchword in pop over the past twenty years , and you 've got — The Mighty Lemon Drops ! |
| 5 | According to the National Federation , this was clearly evident from Labour 's record over the past twenty years : |
| 6 | I 'm talking about saving human life governments over the last twenty years , troops over the last twenty years , policemen over the last twenty years , laws over the last twenty years , and politicians , including myself , have all failed in all the efforts that we 've made including condemnation of violence , everything , but I am now saying that this dialogue is the best hope I 've seen or , surely I 'm entitled to say to the Prime Minister , alright given that I have said that why do n't you put me to the test ? |
| 7 | I 'm talking about saving human life governments over the last twenty years , troops over the last twenty years , policemen over the last twenty years , laws over the last twenty years , and politicians , including myself , have all failed in all the efforts that we 've made including condemnation of violence , everything , but I am now saying that this dialogue is the best hope I 've seen or , surely I 'm entitled to say to the Prime Minister , alright given that I have said that why do n't you put me to the test ? |
| 8 | There can be no doubt that Linda Nochlin has played an important role in making feminist interests and priorities visible ; this collection shows some of the ways in which she has brought these issues to the surface over the last twenty years . |
| 9 | The most crucial change in emphasis over the past twenty years , and particularly over the past ten , has been the common rejection of any suggestion that poverty alone warranted social policy intervention based on state amelioration . |
| 10 | But consumption does not directly create capital assets whether financed internally or externally , and investment levels in most countries have not risen significantly as a proportion of GDP in Africa over the last twenty years , and reMain 6 or 7 per cent lower than in both the rest of the developing world and in the industrialized world . |
| 11 | The health service over the last twenty years has been marred by periodic pay disputes which have disrupted patient services . |
| 12 | the proliferation of technical manuals over the last twenty years has meant that the number of manuals supplied with complex aircraft/systems has increased to the point where it is practically impossible to access all the information in the ‘ library ’ ( Fig. 1 shows an example of technical manual growth rate within the Naval Air Systems Command ) ; |
| 13 | Sex crimes against women have emerged on to the political agenda over the last twenty years . |
| 14 | Most of the legislative changes over the last twenty years , for example , have had the effect of increasingly making teachers the implementors of a job description that has been concocted elsewhere . |
| 15 | There is enough recorded in Warnie 's diaries over the next twenty years of friction and domestic misery to make us see why Jack had misgivings about the advisability of their all attempting to live together . |
| 16 | There have been significant changes in the UK economy over the last twenty years , with a steady growth of the service sector at the expense of industry . |
| 17 | Leading African civil servants entrusted with the day-to-day execution of policy over the last twenty years know that these are not necessarily the major problems . |
| 18 | Pensions have increased in real terms over the last twenty years , but not as fast as real personal disposable incomes . |
| 19 | Quite intuitively , he told me : ‘ Had he stuck to what he originally put into the part , he would probably have had a totally different career over the next twenty years or so . |
| 20 | The ‘ Human Resource ’ concept of man-power as the central profit-generating asset of any organisation has made some progress over the past twenty years . |
| 21 | As part of the five-hundredth anniversary celebrations of the consecration of the Frari church in Venice , the Sovrintendenza ( the state administration of ancient monuments and works of art ) has been taking stock of the restoration projects carried out in the Basilica over the last twenty years . |
| 22 | The blame does not , however , lie at the feet of only one government but is the result of a succession of employment , social security and housing policies over the past twenty years . |
| 23 | Prehistoric archaeology has immensely broadened its approach over the last twenty years . |
| 24 | Palestine disappeared from the map and Arab nationalism over the next twenty years emphasized the recovery of Palestine as the foremost duty of every Arab state . |
| 25 | In the debates over the last twenty years there has been considerable interplay of theological and sociological reasoning , with social scientists also contributing to papers and discussions . |
| 26 | Coal imports will double in Japan over the next twenty years or so with coal becoming second only to oil as an energy supplier , at about one-quarter of demand . |
| 27 | Mineral exploration of fluctuating intensity has continued in Britain over the last twenty years . |
| 28 | The purpose of this project is to investigate the flows into and out of unemployment in Britain over the past twenty years . |
| 29 | The relationship between the judiciary and the Government has been changed by developments over the last twenty years and especially over the last five years or so . |
| 30 | This process is aided and abetted by the trend over the past twenty years to encourage the active participation of fathers in the process of childbirth itself . |