Example sentences of "[pron] has [verb] over the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The forthcoming work will aim to remove the layer of dirt which has accumulated over the last thirty years not surprisingly , since the church is located in one of the most polluted parts of Florence . |
| 2 | The Barcelona festival is the most enjoyable , experimental stop on what Gibson jokingly calls the ‘ virtual rubber chicken circuit ’ , a global network of theoretical conferences , trade fairs and arty think tanks which has developed over the last two years to tap the millennial fascination with virtual reality . |
| 3 | The picture which has emerged over the last five or six years it is very different than the one painted above . |
| 4 | In spite of the claims of the success of the Thatcher years , Mr Lang will emphasise the need for Scotland to fill that critical gap which has emerged over the last 13 years . |
| 5 | Brightreason will now have 20 per cent of the booming pizza market , which has doubled over the last eight years . |
| 6 | Brian Clough , the Forest manager , said : ‘ His contract was not expiring but he deserved a rise for the contribution he has made over the last 12 months -so he earned himself a new deal . ’ |
| 7 | How does this particular religious tradition shape up at the end of the twentieth century , particularly in the context of those challenges that it has faced over the last hundred and fifty years from movements in secular thought like Darwinism , Marxism and Positivism ? |
| 8 | In spite of the many things it has achieved over the last hundred years — and we have all been shaped by that — it has got itself boxed in by one issue . |
| 9 | The aid programme , as it has developed over the last thirty years , has failed in terms of its original objective , i.e. the promotion of a pattern of economic growth in which the injection of external finance on soft terms was no longer necessary . |
| 10 | In the arts it has become over the last century not the exception but almost the rule for the innovator at the crucial time of forming his style to find something in another culture from which he can learn , an influence not superficial , as in eighteenth century chinoiserie , but radical ( the Impressionists and the Japanese woodcut , Debussy and the Javanese gamelan , Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese architecture , the Imagists and Japanese and Chinese poetry , the Cubists and African sculpture , Henry Moore and the Mexican Chac Mool , Brecht and Chinese theatre , Artaud and Balinese dance ) . |
| 11 | that it has reduced over the last year at Thornhill and I do know that we have agreed in our budget for this coming year to put in closed circuit television at all four Park and Ride car parks , which presumably will reduce it at the others as well . |
| 12 | Of one thing I am certain : I am sure we all agree that what has emerged over the last two years has exceeded our expectations . |
| 13 | Instead , I shall draw on some of what has evolved over the last half century as ‘ curriculum theory ’ in education to try to suggest some frameworks and perspectives for analysing the wealth of detail which the system displays . |
| 14 | Special circumstances are required to justify the er proposing the new settlement through the local plan structure planning process , and I believe that is exactly what has occurred over the last five years , and if I could just quickly run through paragraph thirty three of P P G three , and the your invitation for us to comment on the criteria set out there , first of all the first element , the ex the alternative must be erm seen to be a less satisfactory method of providing land for the new housing that is needed , that is the essence of what has occurred in the process which the County Council has undertaken over the last couple of years , all of the policy options available have been examined in great detail , have been subject to public consultation , public participation , d I believe clear view was that there were erm constraints operating on York which meant that not all of that additional development accommodated in the adjacent to the existing er York city villages surrounding York . |