Example sentences of "[adj] over the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third reason why we 're , we 're pleased to see you here is that erm as a trades council , we 've and this er and Dick mentioned this in his introduction , we 've initiated a major international programme , major in terms of our size obviously as er as a local body , involving links between union activists here primarily in France er , in northern France , but also links now developing in Spain with the new ferry going between Portsmouth and Bilbao , we 're starting to meet with the unions in Spain who are interested in speaking about the , the , the differences in wages in terms and conditions working for the same ferry company , doing the same jobs in the port , a comparative look at how the , the wages terms and conditions differ and we want to , we want to go and visit them in the autumn and , and work out , and work on more links on a sector basis , so that our colleagues down in Bilbao in northern Spain can link up with people in the , in the , in similar sectors here and we 've done this over the last three and a half years with the unions in France , we 've had exchanges of all sectors , the public sectors , transport , erm , health , social services , shop workers . |
| 2 | Surveys along the north-east coast have shown that its numbers have fallen by half over the last decade , to today 's figure of around 100 . |
| 3 | It had become increasingly clear over the last few days that the anger of East Germans is focused on the Communist Party and that it can only be a question of time before the party has to relinquish its leading role and allow political competition . |
| 4 | This has been particularly clear over the last couple of years . |
| 5 | Ernst and Young has cut its annual graduate recruitment by 110 to 540 over the last two years but generally the big firms , some with workforces of over 7,000 , have been slow to react to the downturn . |
| 6 | Other places , particularly the tropical Far East have been very unstable over the last 15 million years . |
| 7 | ‘ Our sales figures have been fairly consistent over the last few months . |
| 8 | Yet he was often in danger of winning the $55,000 ( £31,250 ) first prize until he found it just too much over the last few miles . |
| 9 | To show how safe services are in the hands of this government , you only have to study John Major 's speech to the Society of County Treasurers at his Annual Dinner in London last December and I quote , together we have achieved much over the last decade to improve the services we provide for the people we serve and the environment in which they live , unquote . |
| 10 | On a more serious note , has chemistry changed as a subject very much over the last , dare I say , twenty five years ? |
| 11 | Unmatched over the last ten years . |
| 12 | Rights issues have become increasingly unpopular over the last decade or so . |
| 13 | And in one particular patch of I worked damned hard over the last three years to get a doctor onto that estate . |
| 14 | The second reason that , that we 're delighted to see you is that as a Trades Council we have been trying very hard over the last six or seven years to raise the profile of the trade union movement and this has been quite difficult in in during the Thatcher years , during the anti-trade union legislation , the onslaught by the media , trade unions er , the profile of trade unions has not been easy to raise . |
| 15 | Things have become far more sophisticated over the last fifty years , of course — from slowing down Clapton 's licks on record ( while 16RPM was still a reality ) to units like this one . |
| 16 | The town 's housing market has remained stagnant over the last year and an Abbey National survey showed property prices did not significantly alter during 1991 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Some of the key questions to be addressed are : Has the UK income distribution become more or less equal over the last 10-15 years ? |
| 19 | It is true that employee numbers have been reduced by around an eighth over the last few years but only as a by-product of the printer 's massive £130m capital investment programme . |
| 20 | It has been developed and refined over the last four years by engineers at the company 's parent company , General Motors . |
| 21 | Both the scale and rate of change affecting the operation of the company have been dramatic over the last nine months . |
| 22 | I would say that most insured employers in California have experienced an increase of probably double over the last five years in premiums . |
| 23 | You trust the judgement of a man whos been proven right over the last 5 years . |
| 24 | They were pretty good at making appointments but they could n't cope with sales , and there 's been a tremendous change in that over the last two years . |
| 25 | In fact the screening rate of women in the excluded group has been low over the last 20 years — some 50–80 per cent of older women have never had a smear . |
| 26 | Injury statistics and trends show that after substantial reductions in recent decades , employees fatalities appear to be levelling off at about 1.6 per 100 000 employees and that the reported major injury rate for employees has been stable over the last three years . |
| 27 | These figures have changed very little over the last thirty or more years . |
| 28 | Hares make up some 20 to 30 per cent of a rural fox 's diet , and foxes have increased by three-fold over the last 20 years . |
| 29 | Bingham has had a number of options available over the last year but always contended that Rogan , irrespective of his omission , was still very much part of the set-up . |
| 30 | Yet such sociological explanations for men 's reticence at reporting abnormal symptoms only serves to underline the absence of a national prostate screening campaign , particularly so since a simple blood test has been available over the last four years which can detect the likely presence of prostate cancer . |