Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] decades " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sceptics might feel that they betrayed a lack of informed thought on the issue of objectives ; and certainly a good deal of the time of the economic planners , the Treasury , the Ministry and the industry over the following decades was to be devoted to the search for more meaningful objectives and standards of performance to supplement these minimal statutory requirements . |
| 2 | It had been welded over the preceding decades by the authoritarianism of manager Bill Struth , staunch Presbyterian traditions , the famous ‘ iron curtain ’ defence and tough captains like Big George Young . |
| 3 | Although there has been some shift in the 1980s to the political right in the United States and West Germany , the socialist share of the vote has hardly changed over the two decades in Austria , Scandinavia , West Germany , and Italy . |
| 4 | The percentage of all rape cases reported in our sample of newspapers increased from a steady 25 per cent over the two decades , 1951 to 1971 , to very nearly 40 per cent in 1978 . |
| 5 | The second aspect is the relative stability in the proportion of transport workers over the two decades , despite , as we know from Figure 3.1 , the job losses that have occurred in the transport service industries since the 1960s . |
| 6 | Major shifts in population distribution have taken place over the two decades since the 1960s , despite the fact that the national population size is , by the 1980s , almost static . |
| 7 | Table 4.3 gives details of population change over the two decades for the twenty counties and Scottish regions which in 1981 had the lowest population densities ( i.e. were the most rural ) . |
| 8 | Over the two decades , according to Midland Bank statistics , sums raised averaged nearly £200 million per annum . |
| 9 | Over the coming decades , it has been argued , a shrinking working population will be obliged to finance the pensions , health care and other services required by a burgeoning elderly population . |
| 10 | The government has unveiled plans for nine new " community forests " , to take shape on existing farmland and derelict ground , over the coming decades . |
| 11 | Its main aim is to clarify , legalize and standardize what has become de facto social work practice with children and young people over the past decades . |
| 12 | There has been a vast impoverishment of people over the past decades . |
| 13 | It swells and shrinks , changing its output as it does so ; the official magnitude range is from 0.4 to 0.9 , but over the past decades I have seen it matching Rigel on rare occasions , while it is not often as faint as Aldebaran . |
| 14 | Indeed , one of the major arguments for the promotion of ‘ community care ’ over the past decades — its lower cost , compared with institutional and residential alternatives — has been sustainable precisely because the costs to carers and their families have been largely ignored . |
| 15 | This consensual relationship was revealed in the remarkable absence of overt conflict and the high degree of union co-operation in the major changes in employment and working practices that have taken place on the railways over the past decades ( Hyman and Elger 1981 ) . |
| 16 | For example , the reduction in manufacturing jobs over the last decades in some high wage countries has forced workers to seek jobs in other less well paid and less secure sectors or , as has happened particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom , forced older workers displaced from traditional industries ( like mining and steel-making ) into permanent unemployment . |
| 17 | The rise of the international business schools over the last decades and the substantial increase in the numbers of Third World students in the universities and technical institutes of the First World have provided an ever-increasing pool of potential local employees for the TNCs , and recruitment is brisk . |
| 18 | The world steer , like the world car , has emerged over the last decades through an international standardization of producer technology and a specific set of social relations . |
| 19 | America inherited Britain 's thankless task of trying to maintain a semblance of stability in the Middle East , and has been singularly unsuccessful in doing so over the three decades that have passed since Suez . |
| 20 | Public policy over the three decades separating 1947 and 1979 , represented , on the whole , the upholding of a consensual approach towards criminal justice . |
| 21 | Some scientists predict a great increase in skin cancers in humans over the next decades , and the effects on other life forms can hardly be calculated . |
| 22 | Over the next decades , the chastened population , directed by John White , a formidable Puritan parish minister , did their best to rebuild a little Jerusalem in Dorset . |
| 23 | The effect of all such variations was to make it in the interests of publishers not to specialize in one type of paper but , as they did increasingly over the post-war decades , to spread their interests across morning , evening and weekly papers — and , in a few cases , Sundays . |
| 24 | For example , we all know that productivity growth in the UK has been inferior to West Germany 's over the post-war decades ; that product development has been behind that of Japan ; and that over many years the rates of growth of South Korea , Italy and East Germany were higher than the United Kingdom 's . |
| 25 | Furthermore , energy was over 30 per cent cheaper in the South than in the northeast in 1980 , according to Agnew ( 1987b , p. 174 ) , who draws on Bensel 's ( 1984 ) work , which combines the energy and unionization advantages of the South , to illustrate the growing gap in growth rates over the post-war decades between , on the one hand , the energy-rich/right-to-work States and , on the other , the energy-disadvantaged ( high cost , mostly imported ) and heavily-unionized . |
| 26 | A history teacher is content to cover the history of one country or continent over a few decades . |