Example sentences of "over the previous [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of C.A. 1991 it was recorded that over the previous 18 years we had raised over £210,000 for the cause . |
| 2 | Their long folk memories recalled other attempts to produce native silk over the previous hundred years — and how all of them had failed . |
| 3 | Brockway was writing in the context of a prison population for England and Wales that had declined by two-thirds over the previous fifty years . |
| 4 | In evidence to the Environment Committee in 1986 the following report was given on the record of the Church Commissioners over the previous seventeen years , during which the future of 1,053 redundant churches was decided . |
| 5 | After investing £15 million in a variety of different schemes over the previous six years , and just when developments were looking promising , the government 's funding ( channelled through the Energy Technology Support Unit , part of the Harwell-based UK Atomic Energy Authority ) was cut . |
| 6 | Although he refused to speak against Gates , who had supported his election , Bush announced that Attorney General Thornburgh had begun a national review of the 15,000 complaints made to the federal government concerning acts of police brutality over the previous six years . |
| 7 | Maza had gained a high reputation for leading the fight against " narco-terrorism " over the previous six years and he also claimed several successes in rescuing the kidnap victims of the drug cartels . |
| 8 | The share and rate of profit and the accumulation rate more or less stabilized at the very high levels established over the previous six years . |
| 9 | In the build up to her first ever world tour , the now seasoned campaigner decided it was time to kill the cutesy girl-next-door and reflect the reality of what had happened to her over the previous two years . |
| 10 | Over the previous two years the lower-school IS work had been restructured to incorporate new elements and an increased use of project work . |
| 11 | A report prepared for the United States State Department , published in September 1989 , stated that the Somali armed forces had " purposely murdered " at least 5,000 civilians in fighting over the previous two years . |
| 12 | The economic programme presented in February , which relaxed the monetarist controls implemented over the previous two years and sought to lift the economy out of recession by investing in state enterprises and boosting imports [ see pp. 38774-75 ] , was rejected by the Sejm ( lower house of parliament ) on March 5 by 171 votes to 138 with 38 abstentions . |
| 13 | Parliament ordered an immediate investigation into sales of state property over the previous two years , after hearing reports from the state procurator and the chairman of the Byelarus State Security Committee ( KGB ) , Eduard Shirkovsky , on organized crime , corruption and theft . |
| 14 | The rest of the report , which was the role of section conferences and industrial conferences , which have been the subject of fairly detailed consultations throughout regions over the previous two years and appeared to be widely accepted was hardly debated at all . |
| 15 | The school librarian is provided with a monthly total of items borrowed over the previous two years and a running total of items on loan to each year group . |
| 16 | It was suggested that too much VAT had been claimed over the previous two years . |
| 17 | It was suggested that too much VAT had been claimed over the previous two years . |
| 18 | This is significant , given that many commentators in 1983 thought that the policies of the Conservative and Labour parties were further apart than at any time over the previous thirty years . |
| 19 | He spoke on the transformation of literary criticism over the previous thirty years and , no doubt with the memory of John Peter 's interpretation of The Waste Land in mind , warned against too much psychological or biographical conjecture in the explication of poetry . |
| 20 | However , by 1892 the immense amount of work on the structure and synthesis of organic compounds over the previous 25–30 years made a more systematic approach to naming these compounds necessary . |
| 21 | When the BMJ , in its special commemorative number for the Queen 's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 , reviewed the development of the profession over the previous sixty years it was this aspect that it chose to trumpet . |
| 22 | Speedy success was essential , since records gathered over the previous 80 years showed that at best only three weeks of rain-free weather could be expected at that time of the year . |
| 23 | The fact that France had already received the lion 's share of new European component investment over the previous five years was beside the point . |
| 24 | Over the previous five years , where had the greatest money flowed freely ? |
| 25 | In deciding whether an applicant passes the general fitness tests , the LA will take account of any convictions concerning the operation of goods vehicles over the previous five years . |
| 26 | The confrontation was symbolic of the accelerating polarization which had occurred over the previous five years , with the Popular Front calling for a determined re-application of the policies of 1931–3 and the right for radical constitutional revision . |
| 27 | This brought the total rise over the previous five years to 10 per cent . |
| 28 | A report by the human rights organization Amnesty International prepared over the previous five years , and released on June 19 , concluded that government inaction had allowed the proliferation of death squads run by prison officers and off-duty policemen . |
| 29 | It was characterized by a commitment to the policies of his predecessor , Tun Daim Zainuddin , who for seven years had kept the country on a course of fast economic growth ( with an average annual rate over the previous five years of 8.3 per cent ) , despite the threat of inflation , estimated to be over 5 per cent , and a worsening current-account balance . |
| 30 | ( i ) Reselection is every five years for a further five year period : ( a ) If panel members are with the same firm they would be expected to supply details of relevant experience over the previous five years , and to have attended a number of updating courses , accumulating at least 20 continuing education points ( or hours ) from courses related to personal injury work . |