Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] over the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The site , near modern Kerma , has been known since the 1920s but the city underneath has only emerged over the last ten years . |
| 2 | The proportion of old people living in cold homes has hardly changed over the last 20 years despite improvements in living conditions , a report shows . |
| 3 | The population of Hanoi has almost doubled over the last 30 years , but inadequate planning and sanitation measures during the expansion of the city have resulted in chronic subsidence and drainage problems . |
| 4 | CENTRA is the successor to NWRAC ( formerly ULCI ) whose course schemes and certificates in Machine Knitting have become well established over the last 30 years . |
| 5 | The benefit plus arrangement has become well established over the last four years and it makes sense to use it for Community Action . |
| 6 | She ached inside , a sensation that had once been very familiar , but which she had deliberately suppressed over the last four years until she had almost forgotten what it had felt like . |
| 7 | She had barely skimmed over the last few paragraphs of information , used to Debbie 's ridiculous ideas about a person 's birth sign giving a clue to his character , but now the temptation to find out proved too great . |
| 8 | was all a load of nonsense and you 've certainly proved over the last twenty five years how ridiculous whoever started that story was . |
| 9 | This can , as we have all seen over the last year or so in particular , have very severe effects on normally solvent companies . |
| 10 | Almost 300 have already gone over the last six years . |