Example sentences of "over the [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We decided Mervyn 's tremendous contribution — one of imagination and professionalism — over the six years he was secretary had to be acknowledged in some way . |
| 2 | Bankers have warned of ballooning costs over the 18 years it would take to build . |
| 3 | Over the succeeding years he repaid their great kindness with massive generosity . |
| 4 | His highly influential study ‘ Working for Ford ’ , was published in 1973 and over the succeeding years he has continued his studies of the changing strategies of multinational corporation in a variety of different contexts . |
| 5 | We had changed a lot over the four years we 'd been together . |
| 6 | John , one of the PPLs at our flying club , had made a beautiful job of building his little Jodel and I had followed his progress closely over the several years it had taken him to complete it . |
| 7 | OVER the 40 years I have talked to you at Christmas I have often spoken of the role Britain plays throughout the world . |
| 8 | We are still passionately committed to our work in Africa , where over the past years we 've made 282 grants in 29 countries in support of both long term development and emergency work . |
| 9 | Over the past years we 've made well over 1000 grants to organisations all over the UK , some probably just round the corner from you . |
| 10 | And although the dominant enterprises in this sense have undoubtedly grown considerably in size , by any measure , over the post-war years it is not obvious that the operating units have grown in the same way . |
| 11 | The overall cost of the project over the ten years it will run is estimated to be in the region of £1.9 million , and an appeal for sponsorship by commercial sources and private individuals is to be launched early in 1993 . |