Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] britain over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To understand the significance of these most recent changes , it is first necessary to review the main trends in social mobility in Britain over the past fifty years , before considering those developments that have become more marked since the mid-1970s . |
| 2 | Given the number of prominent cases of judicial error in Britain over the past few years — Guildford Four , Birmingham Six , Stefan Kiszcko , the Tottenham Three and Judith Ward — it is not an abstract question . |
| 3 | Welsh Tourism announced that it is to spend over £7.5 million on marketing in Britain over the next three years . |
| 4 | His recital of the history of the archbishops ' exercise of authority over the whole of Britain over the centuries is punctuated by quotations from Gregory , proclaiming the claims of antiquity as a model for future conduct . |
| 5 | To understand this we need to look at the history of cultural theory and criticism in Britain over the last twenty to thirty years . |
| 6 | The government , says Roith , should take some of the credit for the growth in computer literacy in Britain over the past half a decade . |
| 7 | The marked improvement in the terms of trade for Britain over the early '50s permitted a rise in real wages despite a decline in Britain 's exports , while a substantial inflow of American direct private investment helped to boost capital accumulation . |
| 8 | Data processing has been a key employment growth area in Britain over the past decade . |
| 9 | The first report to investigate the projected effects of global warming on Britain over the next 40 years has been released by the Department of the Environment . |
| 10 | THE STORY of vertebrate life in Britain over the past 2 million years or so is fascinating . |
| 11 | It quickly outgrew its humble illegal origins to dominate social life in Britain over the last six months at least . |
| 12 | Rhetorically , the central organising theme of the debates on the inner city in Britain over the last three years has been the problem of exporting the successes of the rest of the nation to this extraordinary conceptual space . |
| 13 | The purpose of this project is to investigate the flows into and out of unemployment in Britain over the past twenty years . |
| 14 | First we examine the trends in population structure in Britain over the last century and the forecasts for the early decades of the next millennium . |