Example sentences of "[noun] over the [adj] 50 years " in BNC.

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1 Before examining the more recent developments in self-advocacy and normalisation , however , we need to consider the two approaches which have been prominent and have dominated the emergence and style of professional practice over the past 50 years : the medical and educational approaches .
2 Launching a report on the changing face of England over the past 50 years , Burton called on the government to target the 150,000 hectares of derelict land in cities before it allows more building in the countryside .
3 Erskine , long resident in Stockholm , is known for the warm , humane domestic , public and commercial buildings he has designed in Sweden over the past 50 years .
4 A good system for storing electricity will not become possible before 1995 , Meanwhile , the date for artificial intelligence is shunted back 20 years to 2020 and the time for weather control is 2030 instead of 2015 , All kinds of obstacles , not so much technological as human and economic , have interfered with the 1962 predictions , as with many others that people have made with seemingly unimpeachable authority over the past 50 years .
5 He had not been able to identify any change over the past 50 years which could be linked with the economic policy of any party .
6 In fact , there seems to be some feeling here that China has fallen right behind the rest of the world in matters of language study and language teaching methodology , so I found myself , on one day , giving a résumé of Linguistics in the west over the past 50 years !
7 There has been a series of decisions over the past 50 years which , although they are said to be cases of estoppel are not really such .
8 One consequence of this has been a distrust of geometric intuition and the downgrading of geometry by educationalists over the past 50 years or so .
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