Example sentences of "[noun] over the [num ord] ten years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | People want to spend their day forgetting about hard times — even if they pay it off in instalments over the next ten years . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | First , there has been a high degree of parallel and interactive effort by scientific , political and public information initiative over the last ten years . |
| 12 | Closer to home is the trauma faced by social workers over the last ten years . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | I 've taken eight antidepressants over the last ten years , Prozac has n't been one of them I must admit . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This led into a technical and commercial appraisal of European competition and the anticipated market changes over the next ten years . |
| 20 | Laurent died at the height of his powers in 1853 , but his ideas slowly gained ground over the next ten years . |
| 21 | His images have appeared again and again in the magazine over the last ten years ( the most recent was on the cover of the cancer issue ) . |
| 22 | Consumer belief in " safer " bottled water has led to the quadrupling of sales over the last ten years . |
| 23 | The average price paid by industrial and commercial consumers declined only slightly if at all in real terms over the first ten years of nationalisation , but electricity usage in industry was probably less price-elastic than in most uses , and other factors were the main stimuli to sales growth . |
| 24 | And er certainly in teaching there 's been quite a big change over the last ten years in the way that people perceive retirement . |
| 25 | The medium-term one I would say is to do with broadly the attitudes of society towards education , and those attitudes have in fact undergone a fairly substantial change over the last ten years or so . |
| 26 | The scepticism is born out of two small signs over the last ten years . |
| 27 | Economists should look ahead and use both micro- and macroeconomics to throw light , for example , on ‘ how , where , and in what form ’ the workers released by technological progress over the next ten years will be employed . |
| 28 | There has been a plethora of books on country houses over the last ten years , but author and illustrator Peter Morter and Brian Delf , have found a new and intriguing approach . |
| 29 | But that is the risk one runs when , as has been the case over the last ten years , one feels duty-bound to give an immediate account of what is going on , without distancing oneself sufficiently from the subject matter . |
| 30 | There was nothing in our press release , in fact the contrary , criticising the Labour Party Officers going to Brussels where we 've had tremendous support over the last ten years . |