Example sentences of "over the last fifteen years " in BNC.

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1 Over the last fifteen years , preaching has moved , by and large , from preaching the truths of the Christian faith to the experiences of the Christian faith .
2 Over the last fifteen years , successive governments have taken the view that the best way to preserve great houses is to make it possible for their traditional owners to maintain them .
3 Over the last fifteen years , SAVE has been continuously involved in campaigning to secure the future of disused , decaying and neglected country houses .
4 Jeffrey : I think that lesbians and gay men have been very creative in the sort of relationships they have tried to develop over the last fifteen years — because it 's very easy simply to copy the models which we are presented with .
5 Jeffrey : I think what our discussion shows is the importance over the last fifteen years , and particularly in the age of AIDS , of the friendship and support networks which we have developed .
6 He argues that in order to extract Britain 's oil reserves fast — a policy objective pursued dogmatically by all governments over the last fifteen years — it was necessary to depend upon the transnational oil companies .
7 The need for more prisons has appeared in many jurisdictions over the last fifteen years .
8 With a view to er recording all the drawings that we 've produced over the last fifteen years .
9 What I 'm concerned about is those drawings that we 've produced with our resources over the last fifteen years .
10 But yet , the steady increase in the divorce rate over the last fifteen years or so is not the simple consequence of attending women 's studies classes .
11 We the G M B have an excellent record over the last fifteen years but the g our people , and more so the craftsmen within that particular g , is cause for concern and a massive scope for improvement in every area of health , safety and the environment .
12 One of the most useful studies of the role of life events and difficulties in depression has been conducted by George Brown and Tirril Harris and their colleagues in London over the last fifteen years .
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