Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alan Hingston , Executive Director of IDB 's Marketing Development Division , said : ‘ Scandinavia has long been one of IDB 's target regions and business for Northern Ireland companies has developed steadily over the past decade . |
| 2 | The role of users within the mental health system has developed rapidly over the past 10 years . |
| 3 | An argument has broken out over the royalty rate paid to artists for each copy of both DCC and another new format , MiniDisc . |
| 4 | In Brossa 's opinion , the transaction processing monitor market has matured considerably over the last eight years . |
| 5 | For Charlie is one of Scotland 's best known pipers and has travelled all over the world with the Black Watch to play at social and diplomatic functions . |
| 6 | Pierre has taught all over the world — next month he 's running a course here at the Lygon Arms Hotel in Broadway . |
| 7 | Right Chairman , yes , the report 's for information , there are a few things to update , occupancy remains healthy , erm , the working total has fallen slightly over the Christmas recess , but erm , really by ten there . |
| 8 | Even so , the number of people moving through particular age groups has varied substantially over the past two or three decades . |
| 9 | Bardul uses this chamber to store an amazing range of things which he has picked up over the years in the hope that one day they might be useful . |
| 10 | This area of planning has grown tremendously over the past few years , fuelled by the accounting discussion over brand valuation . |
| 11 | AMNESTY in Britain has grown tremendously over the last four or five years , but what has this meant for our effectiveness as a campaigning organisation ? |
| 12 | On another level , for example , the size of office premises has grown tremendously over the years . ’ |
| 13 | In the UK , the service sector has grown tremendously over the past decade or so , largely because manufacturers have attempted to reduce labour intensive tasks . |
| 14 | ‘ Our business in this market has grown impressively over the last five years , thanks largely to the efforts of Tony Hardacre and our agents , the Sumitomo Corporation , ’ said Juan . |
| 15 | The magnificent palace of Diocletian at Split , which inspired Robert Adam , the English designer of the eighteenth century , and also influenced the contemporary Georgian styles , still forms the outer shell , a square mile in area , which surrounds the vibrant city which has grown up over the centuries within and around its protective walls . |
| 16 | In 1881 Mr Kibataro Oki produced the first Japanese telephone and created a company that has grown dramatically over the last 110 years . |
| 17 | In 1881 Mr Kibataro Oki produced the first Japanese telephone and created a company that has grown dramatically over the last 110 years . |
| 18 | ‘ During our Everest expedition in 1953 we had vast quantities of firewood at base camp and never thought about the problems , but environmental consciousness has grown enormously over the last 30 years or so . ’ |
| 19 | The demand for in-service training has grown enormously over the last three years in response to the following factors : |
| 20 | Alan Clements , European sales and marketing director for Seven Seas , believes the market has grown rapidly over the past decade because ‘ people 's perception of health has changed . |
| 21 | I feel his glare now , but let my own eyes wander past the fence to the yellow lattice of the heavy lifting gear and the big iron disc of the magnet hanging down , and the motorcar-mountain that has built up over the holiday season . |
| 22 | We are kept reading by the promise of an original sin or trauma that will justify — either in psychological or moral terms — the very existence of the story , but stripped of the successive identities he has built up over the years , Philip 's father is revealed as no more than an insecure , over-imaginative little boy . |
| 23 | The University Library has built up over the years one of the finest collections of African studies in higher education . |
| 24 | R&D expenditure has risen steadily over the past five years , from £461m ( 4.1% of sales ) in 1987 to £692m ( 5.5% of sales ) in 1991 . |
| 25 | Would it have anything to do with the warm weather , as the tank temperature has risen slightly over the last couple of weeks . |
| 26 | In fact the numbers of female motorists has risen sharply over the past few years and since 1987 the number has almost doubled . |
| 27 | The proportion of women combatants has risen considerably over the last three years . |
| 28 | Sociology has expanded enormously over the last decade in terms of the body of significant literature . |
| 29 | May I make it plain , as my Department has done consistently over the past three years of consideration of the Bill in the House , that this is indeed a mammoth project , that the appraisals of such a project inevitably change over time as the project changes in costs and revenue . |
| 30 | SCOTLAND HAS failed to fill the entrepreneurial gap which has opened up over the last decade since the decline of the nationalised and heavy industries , the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , will acknowledge next week . |