Example sentences of "have [verb] over the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been very pleased with my performance , with my success and the achievements which I have enjoyed over the past 20 years . |
| 2 | While bank deposits have stagnated over the past three years , mutual funds , which are mostly outside the banks ' domain , have grown by two-thirds . |
| 3 | ‘ We have reviewed the results and the fact is we lost as many as we have won over the last two seasons , ’ said Bates . |
| 4 | And I 'm sure that this report on the health action area is going to show some fairly , erm give us some fairly staggering erm revelations about about the health of Oxford citizens that 's going to surprise people at large when they find out how badly people have fared over the past ten years when we 've had the Tories in office who 've really done their very , very best to make the health divide of this country in a very poor state . |
| 5 | We have noticed over the last few months at Cadogan Travel seem to be noticeably more expensive than the other travel agents used by Christian Aid . |
| 6 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 7 | ‘ What we have done over the past two years is to improve on our ability to retain the ball in contact , to drive very successfully as units ( as the All Blacks found to their cost in Lille ) and to deep those drives going . |
| 8 | Erm , on entertainment , we 're spending a lot of money on organic growth and have done over the past two or three years and er , it 's very well spent but again , we 're growing our businesses , erm , er , rather than acquiring them . |
| 9 | What we shall do , as we have done over the past three years , is to ensure that poorer pensioners — those who have not benefited from the result of our general policies towards pensioners which have increased pensioners ' real living standards by over 34 per cent . |
| 10 | Certainly , we have seen over the last seven years in Britain new educational legislation of a kind which is having a profound influence upon practice in education departments and schools — for better or for worse . |
| 11 | Many farms I have visited over the past 10 years have needed little more than a re-organisation of their existing system and some basic drainage alterations . |
| 12 | ( i ) Is the applicant required to attend a training course , and if so , how many ? ( a ) The application form for panel membership will ask for details of training courses applicants have attended over the past two or three years . |
| 13 | ( ii ) In addition , the details of training courses applicants have attended over the previous three years will be used as background information and will be relevant to demonstrate interest in medical negligence litigation , commitment and willingness to learn . |
| 14 | It may be correct that these properties would fall into this Band at 1993 values , but values have risen over the past two years ( despite national trends in house prices ) . |
| 15 | ‘ This report surely demands a rethink by both the Government and the senior management of BR of the policies that they have adopted over the last 10 years . ’ |
| 16 | Partly because it is profitable : its pre-tax profits have tripled over the past ten years , to £604m ( $980m ) on sales of £5.6 billion ( in some 30 countries ) in the year to March 1990 . |
| 17 | It is merely the application of some basic rules of human behaviour that researchers have uncovered over the last hundred years or so . |
| 18 | Sadly the very dry weather we have had over the last two summers has meant that even young bulbs have not been able to bulk up their energy supplies and so the following year they have been unable to produce flowers . |
| 19 | What kind of deal do they think Americans Indians have had over the past 200 years ? |
| 20 | No effort has been made to investigate the tens of thousands of murders and ‘ disappearances ’ that have occurred over the past three years : in February , Sri Lankan human rights activists estimated that 40,000 people had ‘ disappeared ’ since 1987 . |
| 21 | Many important changes in the structure of the economy have occurred over the last twenty years . |
| 22 | Any nation has to learn democracy er , and it seems to me that all the people of the Soviet Union have shown over the last four or five years a lively interest in politics and considerable to participate in politics , er one of the problems is of course is that they 've been doing so , too much and in too disorganised a way , they 're going to have to get together . |
| 23 | That removes the Government 's mask which they have worn over the past few months as they have tried to pursue the idea of cheap gas . |
| 24 | Whilst building society interest rates have halved over the last 18 months or so , annuity rates have not fallen anything like as much , because they depend upon the rates on long-term bonds . |
| 25 | Motor traders said the slower annual decline in sales continued last month , though sales for the time of year have flattened over the past five months . |
| 26 | A number of the large employers have gone over the last ten or fifteen years but there are still very large industrial complexes . |
| 27 | In London , salaries have increased over the past six months , which to some degree reflects the calibre of the person sought within each grading . |
| 28 | These records show that strandings , especially of pilot whales , have increased over the past 25 years . |
| 29 | Sheldon Krimsky 's book stems from this study , but in the light of the other books devoted to this same goal that have appeared over the past five years , it is worth considering what Genetic Alchemy adds to previous efforts . |
| 30 | A cross-section of definitions , which have appeared over the past twenty years or so , is as follows . |