Example sentences of "[adj] over [art] [adj] few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | As reports from the Select Committee on Defence have made clear over the past few years , defence cuts are proceeding at such a pace that , if a future Labour Government continued in the same way , we would be left with Securicor and Group 4 to defend our shores and a steamship company to provide us with a substitute for the Royal Navy . |
| 2 | As the Western and Eastern alliances fade — as now looks increasingly likely over the next few years — the European Community will become the dominant focus for European foreign policy and security . |
| 3 | With the growth that seems likely over the next few years one can not help asking what the future holds . |
| 4 | It was my own experiences with herbal treatments , due to being ill over the past few years , that convinced me that there was more than just a placebo effect at work . |
| 5 | Ozone depletion is likely to become more rapid over the next few years , according to researchers from the University of Arizona 's lunar and planetary laboratory , because of links between ozone concentrations and the sun 's activity . |
| 6 | Although conservation measures are understood to have been rigorously applied and economic growth has been sluggish or negative over the past few years , neither energy consumption nor oil consumption has fallen in any significant way in Eastern Europe . |
| 7 | It has proved extremely effective over the past few years . |
| 8 | Erm and I have to er pick up the point made opposite that the protection has been pretty good over the last few years without the policy . |
| 9 | Siemens also says it expects losses at the semiconductor division to go on , saying that the prospects of it breaking even over the next few years as a result of cost-cutting had been dampened by weak demand . |
| 10 | I have n't been too bad over the past few years but I 've certainly been left with the legacy of my habit . |
| 11 | Almost every transaction can now be completed by the use of a transfer deed , and this means that the use and the art of preparing a conveyance deed will slowly become obsolete over the next few years . |