Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] few [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past few months seven candidates have attended different courses . |
| 2 | But over the past few weeks many Americans have sensed a change in her . |
| 3 | Over the past few years tremendous efforts have been made to explain to the outside world just what the Olefines business is all about and the reasons for flaring . |
| 4 | Over the past few years several rather unexpected countries — Cambodia , Haiti , Romania ( admittedly after executing Nicolae Ceausescu ) and , the latest recruit , Namibia — have joined most of Western Europe and Latin America in abolishing the death penalty for ordinary criminal offences . |
| 5 | Over the past few years foreign telephone companies , and the Baby Bells , have been snapping up stakes in newly privatised telephone companies in New Zealand , Mexico and Argentina , and mobile-telephone franchises even in rich countries such as Britain and Germany . |
| 6 | Over the last few weeks certain parts of European legislation have come to the forefront of media attention . |
| 7 | However , over the last few years smaller companies have fared less well , as the impact of the recession has continued longer than expected and this is reflected in our short-term performance . ’ |
| 8 | Over the last few years thousands of parents have been horrified to discover blackened , rotten milk teeth in their children 's mouths . |
| 9 | The structure of this is interesting as over the last few years most software house have added default actions , verbs or options to their interface — Sierra have almost taken the opposite course by simplifying their system which now has a basic choice of some half a dozen actions . |
| 10 | Over the next few months many places drew up loyal addresses to the Queen , defending the Church and monarchy against those they styled republicans and schismatics , and condemning " the new Revived Doctrine of Resistance and other Republican Tenetts that gave rise to the unnatural Rebellion in 41 " . |
| 11 | The FT-SE 100 Index shed around 4 points at 2717.9 at the close but over the next few weeks all eyes will be on the pound . |
| 12 | Over the next few weeks thousands of undergraduates will pour into the city after the summer recess looking for somewhere to live . |
| 13 | Over the next few years increasing numbers of parents will die of diseases related to HIV and many healthy children will suffer the death of one or both parents . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , the donor must have been infected with the Aids virus just before his death , and over the next few years seven of his beneficiaries have become HIV positive . |
| 15 | Although the section will be relatively small to start with ( because the number of students involved in pilots is only a small proportion of all those taking Advanced Courses ) , over the next few years more staff will move across from traditional examination work to work on quality assurance as the number of students in validated courses grows larger . |
| 16 | Over the next few days considerable numbers of Croats in smaller groups did manage to cross over into Austria at various points along the frontier . |