Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun sg] over the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITAIN 'S smaller business exporters have grown in confidence over the last three months , with Scotland 's exporting companies , in particular , showing a marked improvement in profitability , according to the results of a survey released yesterday . |
| 2 | Great strides have been made in user-involvement over the last few years — in selecting and training staff , evaluating service quality and the more traditional fostering of self-advocacy groups . |
| 3 | ‘ Along with the pay of other Civil Servants ’ , he says , ‘ mine has fallen behind inflation over the last few years . |
| 4 | United have been tumbling into trouble over the last couple of weeks … last time they won was Denis Smith 's first match as manager … |
| 5 | The president told aircraft workers at the company 's plant in Seattle that he believed a lot of the redundancies would not have been announced ‘ had it not been for the $26 billion that the US stood by and let Europe plough into Airbus over the last several years ’ . |
| 6 | The overall award went to the Chesham Building Society but because the awards were based on performance over the last 10 years , the Royal Bank should soon be pitching for the top spot . |
| 7 | The county 's young men are taking the charts by storm as a string of young dance bands from the area have rocketed to stardom over the last 18 months . |
| 8 | Oh yeah yeah and they they keep er actually this album the reason it 's called I keep saying album we keep going back to the days of vinyl er the reason its called By Request over the last four of five years Telstar sent out a sort of feelers on different sleeves asking people if there were any songs that they might like to hear Foster and Allen sing . |
| 9 | The Daily Telegraph has slipped into decline over the last 10 years , losing more than a million readers ( 3.59 million in 1980 ; 2.55 million 1989 ) . |
| 10 | As in South Africa itself , the authorities had increased spending on education over the last few years , so that qualified teachers are fairly well paid , and except in the poorest regions , school building stock is in reasonable repair . |
| 11 | Erm I wo n't dwell on York city centre and its historic core because you 're all clearly aware of that , but it its setting was accepted at the greenbelt enquiry as being sufficiently important to warrant protection wider than just its physical , existing physical limits , erm the special protection was accorded also to the the special character rather was accorded also to the surrounding countryside , much of which is very attractive , and many of the typical Yorkshire small villages and hamlets that surround the area as well , er and we 're clearly in a position in Greater York which is different from the position that arises in many other counties and many other districts within this county , we 're in a position of grave shortage of suitable , developable land , we 're in a position of high quality er character , and landscape , we 're in a position where York , in particular , has extremely good transportation links , to the Leeds Bradford conurbation , where we discuss at length over the last two days there are policies for urban regeneration , subject to regional planning guidance in that area erm and we 're in a position where quite clearly York is under pressure , a great deal of pressure from migrants , er because it 's a it 's an attractive location to live . |
| 12 | Part-time workers who work only a very few hours do not benefit from many of the forms of employment protection introduced by legislation over the last decade or so , although those part-time workers who work at least half the usual hours are covered on some items . |
| 13 | Mr O'Hare suspects that ‘ not that many [ profit sharing schemes ] have been put in place over the last couple of years ’ because of the cash flow drain represented by the company 's contributions to the fund . |
| 14 | All of the people he had stopped and engaged in conversation over the last four years . |
| 15 | Bowles and Gintis criticise the human capital theory as providing ‘ a good ideology for the status quo ’ and for the fact that ‘ the contribution of schooling to growth over the last half century may on balance have been negative . ’ |
| 16 | Net Trust has launched into action over the last few months in different areas . |
| 17 | Those in mint condition have doubled in value over the last two years to around £50 . |
| 18 | Those in mint condition have doubled in value over the last two years to around £50 . |
| 19 | Those in mint condition have doubled in value over the last two years to around £50 . |
| 20 | An account to substantiate his claims showed that there had indeed been a great output with £8,000 paid in Royalty over the last 17 years of operation . |