Example sentences of "[verb] over the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we will support the vigorous cultural life of the capital , which has seen new galleries , theatres and museums opening over the last decade . |
| 2 | Now contrary to what we 'd been informed erm the problem occurred over the last couple of days and having spoken to the ladies in the laboratory , the problem has n't been purely on line five machine . |
| 3 | This is not going to disappear overnight , it 's going to affect her for a long time , and she 's never going to catch up on the work that she 's missed over the last couple of months by having seven teachers in six weeks . |
| 4 | This can , as we have all seen over the last year or so in particular , have very severe effects on normally solvent companies . |
| 5 | The display we 've seen over the last night would have been quite average for Scotland and Northern Ireland but this far south in Oxford it was quite spectacular . |
| 6 | Despite the law , the company has grown over the last year . |
| 7 | The meal was hardly over when Mr Heath flew to Sunningdale by helicopter to preside over the last stage of the conference on the future of Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | I heard that that er er er parts of the rest of the U K property prices have risen over the last year , er but ours have actually not risen at all . |
| 9 | Kenneth Baker , the party chairman , said yesterday that Cabinet ministers would play a stronger role in government than they had done over the last decade , and there would have to be public spending increases in the 1990s to pay for an improved quality of life . |
| 10 | Although traditional shopfronts add charm and individuality to high streets , unprecedented damage has been done over the last century . |
| 11 | 8 Perhaps this offers a useful framework to think about the work that has been produced over the last quarter of a century . |
| 12 | Hey , do n't worry , we 've got really good at waiting over the last couple of days . |
| 13 | And on this sir I , the way the discussion 's been going over the last couple of days , erm I would like to point you at the experience of the Nottinghamshire structure plan which I 've got direct personal experience , where there the panel was persuaded to commend locations that is n't right for structure plan but was a felt able to erm name a district or district council in whose area such a strategic site might be located . |
| 14 | The arguments have been well rehearsed over the last year . |
| 15 | PAY settlements in manufacturing industry are now only slightly ahead of inflation , after halving over the last year , according to revised figures released yesterday by the Confederation of British Industry . |
| 16 | The catalogue part of the book is devoted to important paintings sold over the last decade , many of which explain the firm 's reputation today for adventurous taste . |
| 17 | THE Scottish Football League programme has been badly affected over the last couple of weeks , not only by the injuries which might reasonably be expected at this stage in a crowded season , but , unusually , by a flu virus which has caused havoc in the playing staffs of some of the Premier Division teams . |
| 18 | I have not forgotten that strange and distant glimmer on your face after you tipped over the last glass . ’ |
| 19 | Well of course there 's been the erm joining of the two Leagues back to where they should have been , you know this silly split that was erm arose over the last couple of years has been put to bed now and sorted out . |
| 20 | He has had numerous sporting achievements recognised over the last year . |
| 21 | In the arts it has become over the last century not the exception but almost the rule for the innovator at the crucial time of forming his style to find something in another culture from which he can learn , an influence not superficial , as in eighteenth century chinoiserie , but radical ( the Impressionists and the Japanese woodcut , Debussy and the Javanese gamelan , Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese architecture , the Imagists and Japanese and Chinese poetry , the Cubists and African sculpture , Henry Moore and the Mexican Chac Mool , Brecht and Chinese theatre , Artaud and Balinese dance ) . |
| 22 | Desert Orchid had often won from worse positions , but he seemed unable to quicken , and was half a length down on his two younger rivals as they landed over the last obstacle . |
| 23 | The first solo , tabbed last month , was in the key of E. This second solo takes off in the key of F , although the two-note pickup is played over the last beat of the final bar of E. |
| 24 | ‘ To invade those poor people in Poland when they 're only just getting over the last war . ’ |
| 25 | A feminist perspective on , and analysis of , architecture and planning has only just begun to emerge over the last decade . |
| 26 | ‘ When the police told me everything I had been doing over the last month it totally freaked me out . ’ |
| 27 | The great temptation , particularly after a good round , is to fly over the last fence and gallop through the finish invariably trying to make up some time over an easy fence . |
| 28 | that it has reduced over the last year at Thornhill and I do know that we have agreed in our budget for this coming year to put in closed circuit television at all four Park and Ride car parks , which presumably will reduce it at the others as well . |
| 29 | The plan has emerged from a comprehensive study undertaken over the last year , covering such aspects as geology , archaeology , nature conservation , recreation , education , traffic and landscape . |
| 30 | Special circumstances are required to justify the er proposing the new settlement through the local plan structure planning process , and I believe that is exactly what has occurred over the last five years , and if I could just quickly run through paragraph thirty three of P P G three , and the your invitation for us to comment on the criteria set out there , first of all the first element , the ex the alternative must be erm seen to be a less satisfactory method of providing land for the new housing that is needed , that is the essence of what has occurred in the process which the County Council has undertaken over the last couple of years , all of the policy options available have been examined in great detail , have been subject to public consultation , public participation , d I believe clear view was that there were erm constraints operating on York which meant that not all of that additional development accommodated in the adjacent to the existing er York city villages surrounding York . |