Example sentences of "over the [adj] years [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the succeeding years he repaid their great kindness with massive generosity . |
| 2 | His highly influential study ‘ Working for Ford ’ , was published in 1973 and over the succeeding years he has continued his studies of the changing strategies of multinational corporation in a variety of different contexts . |
| 3 | We had changed a lot over the four years we 'd been together . |
| 4 | John , one of the PPLs at our flying club , had made a beautiful job of building his little Jodel and I had followed his progress closely over the several years it had taken him to complete it . |
| 5 | OVER the 40 years I have talked to you at Christmas I have often spoken of the role Britain plays throughout the world . |
| 6 | We are still passionately committed to our work in Africa , where over the past years we 've made 282 grants in 29 countries in support of both long term development and emergency work . |
| 7 | Over the past years we 've made well over 1000 grants to organisations all over the UK , some probably just round the corner from you . |