Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun pl] over the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smaller , darker mountain type with black points and mucosae is very like the Piedmont of northwest Italy and is ideal for extensive systems , but it has been declining in numbers over the last 50 years and by 1980 was down to about 35,000 . |
| 2 | Only 29 per cent of four-day matches have ended in draws over the last two seasons . |
| 3 | This problem , associated with attempts to ascribe probabilities to scientific laws and theories in the light of given evidence , has given rise to a detailed technical research programme that has been tenaciously pursued and developed by inductivists over the last few decades . |
| 4 | I presume you have access to the various briefing papers we have circulated to branches over the last 18 months or so . |
| 5 | The relationship between the judiciary and the Government has been changed by developments over the last twenty years and especially over the last five years or so . |