Example sentences of "[noun] over the [adj] 10 years " in BNC.

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1 My aims were to record the time distribution of night visits and to show the trend in claims in Berkshire over the past 10 years after adjusting for the change in claimable hours .
2 Our figures for oral carcinoma in south east Scotland over the past 10 years show that 456 patients presented with these tumours ; the mean age at presentation was 63.8 years for men and 68.2 years for women .
3 To analyse trends in the number of authors per article over the past 10 years .
4 High interest rates have driven hundreds of thousands of small firms out of business over the past 10 years and the loss of more than 2 million jobs in manufacturing industry has carried with it , to their doom , many small firms that depended on larger businesses .
5 Closures have been taking place over the past 10 years .
6 This projects builds on earlier work by the investigators over the past 10 years in the United Kingdom and the United States .
7 The price of all meats fell more in real terms than all foods — rising in price 15% less than inflation over the past 10 years — and are now 13% cheaper than a decade ago .
8 A 20-a-day man or woman has spent from £360 to £713 a year on fags over the past 10 years .
9 The Branch recently received the Wings Trophy , awarded annually to the branch which has made the most consistent progress in the Wings collection over the past 10 years , from North East Area Chairman Brian Wilkie .
10 His Chinese counterpart , Qian Qichen , described relations as having " gradually improved " following " difficulties and setbacks over the past 10 years " .
11 But in accounting , at least , Mr Aimetti thinks that there has been considerable progress over the past 10 years : ‘ With some adjustments , we are all following the Americans . ’
12 Does the Secretary of State not accept that our valley councils have lost more in rate support grant over the past 10 years than he has given them in new money in the latest package ?
13 We have had a substantial reduction over the past 10 years . ’
14 A new study reports that air pollution has decreased by 50 per cent in much of Southern California over the past 10 years .
15 We estimate that 150000 men aged 60 to 74 would be required in an evaluative trial for it to have an 80% chance of showing a 20% reduction in mortality over the ensuing 10 years , significant at the 5% level .
16 The Mexican federal government announced on July 15 , 1989 , that it would commit $13,750,000 to " regenerate " Mexico 's rainforest over the following 10 years .
17 Even in the midst of deep recession , dietary supplements , such as minerals , vitamins and aids to healthy living such as ginseng and selenium , now represent a £230m market in the UK with a marked rapid growth over the past 10 years .
18 Without doubt , the most important use of tax havens over the past 10 years has been to save ( or defer ) capital gains tax .
19 There has been widespread consultation throughout the country over the past 10 years involving the bishops , priests , religious education advisers , teachers parents , theologians and scripture scholars .
20 THE spate of coal mine closures over the past 10 years or so , has brought increasing problems for the independent railways .
21 His thinking over many years lead to his innovative Lotus 78 , the car that pioneered F1 's ground effect era , and his creative energy over the past 10 years has been instrumental in galvanising Lotus , once a car maker with a fragile future , into an engineering consultancy of huge standing worldwide .
22 raises yet again a problem that has been before the Court of Appeal on a number of occasions over the past 10 years or so .
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