Example sentences of "be [vb pp] over the years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inter-Service friction has been eased over the years by successive steps taken to concentrate greater power in the hands of the Central staffs as more tri-Service experienced officers have become available ; and to bring the Services closer together at every level of command , and in training and operations . |
| 2 | Pocklington 's population rose from 1,502 in 1801 to 2,546 in 1851 but two excellent plans of the town , drawn up by William Watson in 1844 and 1855 , show how little the medieval lay-out had been altered over the years other than by encroachments onto the market place . |
| 3 | To these ends , other means have been developed over the years , most assiduously in the three Northern Tier states . |
| 4 | Many such programs have been developed over the years to exploit the computer 's ability to retrieve and/or manipulate large quantities of data . |
| 5 | The nonconformist movement built their first chapel in 1821 , with four having been erected over the years for the Primitive , Congregational , Baptist and Methodist movements , only the latter still regularly meeting . |
| 6 | Accordingly , a number of migration theories and general statements have been formulated over the years , as shown in Table 5.1 . |
| 7 | In addition , the SIB " high pressure " regime has been modified over the years . |
| 8 | His superb physical shape has been honed over the years by a practical approach to food and exercise . |
| 9 | In total the bungalow 's size has probably been quadrupled over the years with various extensions added when needed . |
| 10 | The National Trust is responsible for the care and upkeep and the old wooden gutters have been repaired over the years . |
| 11 | Certain of the services implicit in a wholesaler function , and for which publishers have agreed to pay higher rate of discounts , have been eroded over the years , and we wish to see them reinstated . |
| 12 | Significant progress has been made over the years , including the development of microwave FELs in the US at the Naval Research Laboratory , Columbia University , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and the Lawrence Livermore laboratory , the infrared-visible FELs built at Los Alamos , Stanford and Santa Barbara and the storage ring at Orsay , Paris . |
| 13 | Despite the many improvements that have been made over the years , the poor pay of the farm worker therefore continues to reflect the very many constraints which surround his choice of occupation and employer in many rural areas . |
| 14 | It was clearly old , and several additions had obviously been made over the years , although they all blended together easily and harmoniously . |
| 15 | The process was never completed owing to a lack of consensus in a number of important areas and only a few piecemeal changes have been made over the years , most recently the creation of Schools in 1989 . |
| 16 | Various theories of DevCom have been evaluated over the years . |
| 17 | Reid 's objection , which has been reiterated over the years , is often supplemented with its converse . |
| 18 | Time will be well spent talking to the vendor and neighbours from whom you can learn a great deal as to what crops and livestock have been produced over the years , and with what success . |
| 19 | The term ‘ partially sighted ’ has been used over the years to refer to pupils who have vision useful for all school tasks but require adaptations to teaching methods and materials in order to accomplish them . |
| 20 | A part of the history of perceptions of people has been the changes in the labels that have been used over the years . |
| 21 | This skin condition , caused by a large ‘ pox ’ virus , has been thought over the years to be restricted to children living in crowded , closed communities and adults who attend Turkish baths or indulge in all-in wrestling . |
| 22 | Various chemical systems have been demonstrated over the years that can self-replicate , some in a way analogous to the replication of genetic material , using nucleotides as basic units that assemble themselves upon a template . |
| 23 | Bonaventure with a cheque for £8,000 , which had been raised over the years by the people of Hemlington for their centre . |
| 24 | Official standards of overcrowding have been raised over the years with the result that comparisons become difficult . |
| 25 | Huge sums have been raised over the years to build and fund the unit but that 's of little comfort to the main hospital today . |
| 26 | However their numbers have been halved over the years , as depot space has contracted : four were broken up in 1963 and the remainder numbered 600–607 . |
| 27 | Letters of Credit have been adapted over the years to recognise new modes of transport and the changing requirements of importers and exporters . |
| 28 | Letters of Credit have been adapted over the years to recognise new modes of transport and the changing requirements of importers and exporters . |
| 29 | Apart from immediate logistical difficulties , the natural links of reciprocity may be weakened over the years by geographical distance so that a natural and gradual change in the balance between dependence and independence has not been effected . |
| 30 | Poles do not last forever of course , and have had to be replaced over the years . |