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 | Take the Bunnymen , overlay every cartoon watchword in pop over the past twenty years , and you 've got — The Mighty Lemon Drops ! |
| 3 | According to the National Federation , this was clearly evident from Labour 's record over the past twenty years : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The purpose of this project is to investigate the flows into and out of unemployment in Britain over the past twenty years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One of the dominant themes in the redistribution of population in the Western World over the past twenty years or so has been the dispersal of population from large cities to medium and small-sized settlements . |
| 10 | Coal , West Germany 's only significant indigenous resource , has enjoyed two drastic changes of fortune over the past twenty years or so . |