Example sentences of "been [vb pp] over the [num ord] " 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 | 8 Perhaps this offers a useful framework to think about the work that has been produced over the last quarter of a century . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It 's two thousand rose plants have all been replaced over the last six years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Areas of bright stucco work have been found over the first layer of tempera . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But the essence of your answer to the questions that have been asked over the last twenty minutes or so , is we have n't done it that way . |
| 21 | The literature on accounting theory is relatively new ( the bulk of it has been generated over the last 50 years ) , and it has , until recently , been almost exclusively concerned with public limited companies ( Whittington , 1986 ) . |
| 22 | Er one has only to walk down the road here for example at Strensall but equally , the first point I made would be to contradict perhaps what Mr and Mr have said er because the the difference in employment distribution is a reflection of the pop planning policies that have been followed over the last ten years . |
| 23 | Much interest was expressed from personnel across the system in the work in which I had been involved over the last eleven years with Queensland Catholic Education . |
| 24 | Although you may be tempted towards a lender by the promise of an initial discount , a far better way of telling how competitive they are is by looking at the history of what borrowers have been charged over the last few years . |
| 25 | Nearly all the leading contenders have all been eliminated over the last year or so . |
| 26 | erm They have had periods when they were prosecuted , then they dropped out of fashion , now they have recently been revived over the last twenty years by prosecutors . |
| 27 | Half of India 's forest has been destroyed over the last 40 years , leaving only 10 per cent coverage . |
| 28 | Selections from the modern theatre may include characters that have been created over the last sixty years , from Noel Coward to Steven Berkoff . |
| 29 | Finally , he threw up slides showing the improvements which had already been achieved over the last three months . |
| 30 | In fact although sometimes the rate of progress or the pace of technology seems sort of frustratingly slow if you look at what has actually changed , what has been achieved over the last five years , it 's quite incredible . |