Example sentences of "be [verb] over the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way the work-force has been treated over the last few years , the uncertainty that 's been created and the lack of consultation , the impact on their lives of such a closure on people who have been expecting to be there until they retire — their jobs may well go , and the impact on that , both for their own lives as well as their families . |
| 2 | To encourage mobility , two separate initiatives , both covered by EC Directives , have been developed over the last few years . |
| 3 | A new framework of national awards in engineering has been developed over the last few years . |
| 4 | Our joint ventures with LVMH continue to progress well thanks to strong personal and commercial relationships which have been developed over the last five years . |
| 5 | HELP has been developed over the last five years and is available to Henley programme members throughout the world . |
| 6 | For instance , in one of the lectures we were talking about how you know how heavy an atom is , and my colleague , Mike Pendlebury , was describing how you can actually do this by weighing a crystal and counting the number of atoms in it , erm this is certainly not the traditional way , it 's a way that 's been developed over the last few years . |
| 7 | Around Somerton in Somerset , for example , Roger Leech suggests that all the settlements that existed in late Roman times have been located over the last several centuries , and so the pattern we see is probably a true reflection of the state of affairs in the Roman era , showing farmsteads and hamlets 1–2 kilometres ( ½-1 mile ) apart , scattered evenly across the landscape . |
| 8 | been attacked over the last few months of not wasting time on the hunt I spend an awful lot of time relieving heavy goods traffic in my area , concerned totally about the environment , about mineral extraction quarries , mining , open cast , things of that calibre . |
| 9 | About 30 horses have been attacked over the last 18 months in Hampshire and surrounding counties . |
| 10 | Although traditional shopfronts add charm and individuality to high streets , unprecedented damage has been done over the last century . |
| 11 | And , I mean , reluctantly we have to accept that this is not an ideal world , but I mean , just now , we were actually looking at the number of food hygiene inspections that have been done over the last few months , which have increased enormously , it just means , I mean it emphasises the fact that food has changed , food , and the number of places that are actually serving food now I mean , the corner shop does sandwiches . |
| 12 | And on this sir I , the way the discussion 's been going over the last couple of days , erm I would like to point you at the experience of the Nottinghamshire structure plan which I 've got direct personal experience , where there the panel was persuaded to commend locations that is n't right for structure plan but was a felt able to erm name a district or district council in whose area such a strategic site might be located . |
| 13 | The buzzard population in the province has been growing over the last few years and is believed to currently stand at 650 . |
| 14 | 8 Perhaps this offers a useful framework to think about the work that has been produced over the last quarter of a century . |
| 15 | It 's unlikey that you 're lucky enough to own a Sinclair Harding clock — they 're so exclusive , and take so long to make that only seven hundred have been produced over the last twenty five years . |
| 16 | It 's been renovated over the last three months at Gloucestershire airport at Staverton near Gloucester , bound for a new life in Australia ferrying tourists on a two week tour of the outback . |
| 17 | It 's two thousand rose plants have all been replaced over the last six years . |
| 18 | If you 've got any sensitivities at all do n't look at them please , but if you wish to , they 'll give you an indication of the kind of thing that your fire fighters have been facing over the last three or four months . |
| 19 | More importantly it has also been the experience of the many students on whom the approach , exercises and problems have been piloted over the last four years . |
| 20 | Of particular interest , given that rates of divorce have been rising over the last two decades , is whether relatives commonly provide housing for people who have separated from a married or cohabiting partner . |
| 21 | Because I am delighted to report that education standards in Wales have been rising over the last few years following the introduction of the national curriculum and our other reforms . |
| 22 | Although warming has been detected over the last few decades , scientists claim that not enough is known about the natural temperature variations of the region to be able to come to any conclusions . |
| 23 | ‘ When the police told me everything I had been doing over the last month it totally freaked me out . ’ |
| 24 | That 's what I 've been doing over the last few days . ’ |
| 25 | and MOS equipment , which again , we we 've b successfully been doing over the last two or three years . |
| 26 | ‘ What we have been doing over the last few weekends is exercising our right to search someone if we have a reasonable belief that they are carrying a weapon , ’ said Mr Wood . |
| 27 | What it means for the homes is that they 're going to have to take a what we 've been doing over the last two or three years is gradually improving the staffing levels in our elderly people 's homes , because the dependency levels in those homes are getting very high . |
| 28 | A visitor can wander through rooms which reincarnate life as it used to be lived over the last centuries . |
| 29 | On the seminary hill a strange edifice had been constructing over the last previous months . |
| 30 | They brought him inside to erm recruit without giving him any training at all and what I do has been gained over the last twenty years of recruitment . |