Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] over the last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the list has certainly took off over the last few days . |
| 2 | Much of the pollution is caused by a backlog of fertilizers , built up over the last 30 years , seeping into the groundwater which feeds many of the dykes . |
| 3 | The enrichment of the Library 's printed collections by selecting appropriately from the constant flow of new knowledge , as well as completing gaps in those publications already represented in the collections built up over the last three hundred years of the Library 's development , is of paramount importance for scholars and researchers . |
| 4 | The Dorset , Devon and Cornwall holiday areas benefited from the good summer weather and from the upgrading of pubs carried out over the last few years . |
| 5 | The collection comes from almost fifty digs carried out over the last twenty years . |
| 6 | The collection comes from almost fifty digs carried out over the last twenty years . |
| 7 | They seemed to have everything in command at Pickie on Saturday , but let the BLI come storming back over the last few ends to win on three of the four rinks . |
| 8 | Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin . |
| 9 | Castle continues to value video copyrights on a historical cost basis because its catalogue has only been built up over the last two or three years and there is less earnings experience on which to base a valuation . |
| 10 | Building in opportunities for student progression is one of these , so that special courses , very necessarily built up over the last 15 years , do not become an end in themselves but rather a means towards mainstream education and training . |
| 11 | It is a wonderful feeling to be able to experience the strength , suppleness and stamina that you have built up over the last three weeks . |
| 12 | Looking back over the last two years , portraits and townscapes , in Berlin or in other locations , predominate . |
| 13 | Looking back over the last 19 years he said : ‘ Having had the opportunity to set up and develop the education service in Lothian has been enormously challenging and satisfying and I believe it is an education service of good quality with many forward-looking policies now established . |
| 14 | ‘ In preparing this Address I had the opportunity to reflect back over the last thirty years , reliving those working days when wages were extremely low , working conditions poor and when in industry a person 's life was cheap . |
| 15 | There I mean there was nothing like the bombing that 's been going on , well , at least that 's what we 're told , the bombing that 's been going on over the last twenty four , forty eight hours of Baghdad for instance . |
| 16 | ‘ We have a running programme of consultation going back over the last two years , ’ she said . |
| 17 | John Howard , acutely aware of such slippage , argued that good staff and external vigilance were essential if reform efforts were to be sustained , but this view , as we look back over the last two centuries , may have been unduly optimistic . |
| 18 | And it 's also important that we look back over the last ten years to how the N H S has been fundamentally changed as a consequence of Tory government policy towards it . |
| 19 | This aspect of the work has been phased out over the last few years as the UK content in most projects has risen to more than 70 per cent , leaving OSO to concentrate on its other roles in encouraging research and development into new offshore technology and using UK expertise to gain export orders on the back of North Sea achievements . |
| 20 | staff salaries have gone down over the last eighteen months |
| 21 | In Brazil there are all sorts of commodities whose price has gone down over the last ten years . |
| 22 | He thought back over the last few hours , the acknowledged relief of talking to Alice , the knowledge that nothing shocked her , nothing surprised her , that everything he did , if not right in her eyes , was judged by a different standard from the one she rigorously applied to the rest of her life . |
| 23 | Okay finally , a third m major er class of ion channel i which has been extensively worked on over the last few years , since the advent of patch clamping er has been second messenger gated channels , so-called second messenger gated channels . |
| 24 | And er at the end of it I think we all felt we knew where we were going , and , and what the work that we 'd put in over the last three years on the management procedures , which form the foundations of our quality system . |
| 25 | This is our first effort at a full newsletter and we now really appreciate how much effort Lynn has put in over the last few years . |
| 26 | This , it has to be said , has been in no small part due to the advent of the in-store bakery ; a concept which has really taken off over the last 10 years . |
| 27 | We have a list of murders stretching back over the last two centuries for which you are responsible . ’ |