Example sentences of "[noun] over the previous [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Mr Shawcross , chairman of the examination board of the NUT , offered a similar contribution : he spoke of the " revolutionary change " in the teaching of English in elementary schools over the previous ten years , and he went on ( in the words of the bulletin report ) to give " his experience of Manchester children under the old system " : |
| 2 | The fact that France had already received the lion 's share of new European component investment over the previous five years was beside the point . |
| 3 | In fact , there are now more companies with no plans for future investment ( 52 companies ) than companies that had not made any investment over the previous three years ( 43 ) . |
| 4 | Using data supplied by local police forces and government ministries , the report stated that ( i ) 4,611 children and adolescents had died from violence over the previous three years , more than 50 per cent of them shot and the rest killed by stabbing , beating , poisoning or strangling ; ( ii ) young girls were raped and many had died from clandestine abortions after becoming prostitutes ; ( iii ) children were exploited from the age of three by professional beggars , from the age of six by drug traffickers and , if they survived , ended up in armed groups used by criminal gangs and even the police ; ( iv ) the abuse of drugs and solvents was common among street children ; ( v ) an estimated 3,000 children were illegally adopted annually by foreigners , 50 per cent going to Italy and 30 per cent to France , who paid up to US$20,000 for a white child ; and ( vi ) 25,000,000 out of 45,000,000 children were chronically underfed , 30 per cent lived in poverty and 10,000 were child workers . |
| 5 | However , by 1892 the immense amount of work on the structure and synthesis of organic compounds over the previous 25–30 years made a more systematic approach to naming these compounds necessary . |
| 6 | Although tax consultancy fee income rose by 3% to £105m , this compares with a total increase of 134% over the previous three years . |
| 7 | The FPR called for the overthrow of the regime and the return of all Rwandan refugees ( mostly Tutsi who had been forced to flee to neighbouring countries after ethnic clashes with the dominant Hutu over the previous 30 years ) . |
| 8 | The UDA had been blamed for about one-third of the killings of civilians in Northern Ireland over the previous 23 years ( more than 2,000 civilians having been killed during this period ) . |
| 9 | In evidence to the Environment Committee in 1986 the following report was given on the record of the Church Commissioners over the previous seventeen years , during which the future of 1,053 redundant churches was decided . |
| 10 | The principal feature of population redistribution revealed by the 1980/81 round of Censuses in advanced Western countries was a massive shift from the larger cities to smaller settlements and remoter rural areas over the previous ten years . |
| 11 | Although he refused to speak against Gates , who had supported his election , Bush announced that Attorney General Thornburgh had begun a national review of the 15,000 complaints made to the federal government concerning acts of police brutality over the previous six years . |
| 12 | Black ( 1982 ) related changes in net fixed investment to changes in GDP over the previous three years . |
| 13 | Though they admitted a whole series of assaults over the previous three years , they disputed their frequency , he said in his closing speech . |
| 14 | Their long folk memories recalled other attempts to produce native silk over the previous hundred years — and how all of them had failed . |
| 15 | He spoke on the transformation of literary criticism over the previous thirty years and , no doubt with the memory of John Peter 's interpretation of The Waste Land in mind , warned against too much psychological or biographical conjecture in the explication of poetry . |
| 16 | The rest of the report , which was the role of section conferences and industrial conferences , which have been the subject of fairly detailed consultations throughout regions over the previous two years and appeared to be widely accepted was hardly debated at all . |
| 17 | However , the figures of 2,561 drivers humiliated for a 3.2 per cent return were only the average over the previous three years in Nottingham . |
| 18 | In 1988 it was calculated that over £16 billion had been spent by the Authority over the previous 30 years , about half provided by the Department of Energy or its predecessors . |
| 19 | It was characterized by a commitment to the policies of his predecessor , Tun Daim Zainuddin , who for seven years had kept the country on a course of fast economic growth ( with an average annual rate over the previous five years of 8.3 per cent ) , despite the threat of inflation , estimated to be over 5 per cent , and a worsening current-account balance . |
| 20 | ( i ) Reselection is every five years for a further five year period : ( a ) If panel members are with the same firm they would be expected to supply details of relevant experience over the previous five years , and to have attended a number of updating courses , accumulating at least 20 continuing education points ( or hours ) from courses related to personal injury work . |
| 21 | He beatified Juan Diego , an Indian believed to have had a vision of the Virgin Mary in 1531 , denounced abortion and the use of contraceptives , and visited those southern and central states where protestant evangelism had made significant inroads over the previous 20 years . |
| 22 | Of total foreign investment in Czechoslovakia over the previous 2 years only 11 per cent had gone to Slovakia , and the common perception was that the industries of the Czech Lands were in general better placed to benefit from the programme of rapid privatization emphasised by Klaus . |
| 23 | This brought the total rise over the previous five years to 10 per cent . |
| 24 | ( ii ) The applicant will need to have the following experience : ( a ) Personally run at least 36 medical negligence cases over the previous 3 years ; and ( b ) had at least three cases set down and ready for trial in the three years prior to panel application . |
| 25 | S 212 gives a public company the power to investigate the ownership of its shares by sending a written notice to any person or company which it believes has had an interest in its share capital over the previous three years . |
| 26 | Parliament ordered an immediate investigation into sales of state property over the previous two years , after hearing reports from the state procurator and the chairman of the Byelarus State Security Committee ( KGB ) , Eduard Shirkovsky , on organized crime , corruption and theft . |
| 27 | In deciding whether an applicant passes the general fitness tests , the LA will take account of any convictions concerning the operation of goods vehicles over the previous five years . |
| 28 | When the BMJ , in its special commemorative number for the Queen 's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 , reviewed the development of the profession over the previous sixty years it was this aspect that it chose to trumpet . |
| 29 | After investing £15 million in a variety of different schemes over the previous six years , and just when developments were looking promising , the government 's funding ( channelled through the Energy Technology Support Unit , part of the Harwell-based UK Atomic Energy Authority ) was cut . |
| 30 | An Amnesty International report published on Nov. 21 called for a public commission to penetrate an official wall of silence and secrecy surrounding the disappearance of 100 people in the south of Morocco and the Western Sahara over the previous 15 years . |