Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv] over [art] past " in BNC.
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| 1 | When further broken down , the figures for public institutions are somewhat sobering , since educational libraries represent only 9% of publishers ' total sales , and public libraries a mere 5% — and these contributions as a percentage of the total have fallen steadily over the past five years , due to wide-ranging public spending cuts in this period . |
| 2 | Then through the use of secondary picketing , frequently associated with intimidation and physical violence ( such as we have seen repeatedly over the past decade in connection with the miners ' strikes , the Shrewsbury incidents , Grunwick , the lorry drivers ' strike ) , unions become a threat to personal freedom . |
| 3 | The results confirm the so-called Standard Model , the theory which physicists have built up over the past 15 years to explain both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it . |
| 4 | According to Durex , whose condoms account for 80% of the British market , purchases made by women have risen steadily over the past 10 years . |
| 5 | This means that prices have risen considerably over the past few months — a very good reason for looking at alternatives to champagne . |
| 6 | Similarly , in the 1980 greater attention from both professionals in the field of child care and the media has increased our awareness of child sexual abuse , and the numbers of reported cases have grown considerably over the past decade . |
| 7 | ‘ We have expanded rapidly over the past few years and have now outgrown our existing factory , ’ said David Gray , chairman and managing director of the Saltofix Group . |
| 8 | They have been caught in the crossfire of this particular Serbo-Croat war and have responded by fighting against the Serbs whose reservist soldiers in the Mostar barracks have behaved atrociously over the past six months . |
| 9 | These fractions have increased slightly over the past decade , and are larger than in other sciences . |
| 10 | These numbers have increased considerably over the past few years , partly because income support is available to help cover the fees of residential and nursing home care , and money to pay for care at home is not easily available . |
| 11 | His problems have increased greatly over the past eight years . |
| 12 | Chemical companies have changed dramatically over the past 100 years as have public attitudes towards chemical issues . |
| 13 | The fact is , beneath all the nonsense about the so-called ‘ new man ’ , men and the male culture have changed dramatically over the past few decades . |
| 14 | Now , trade unions have changed dramatically over the past ten years . |