Example sentences of "[verb] over the last two " in BNC.

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1 If you actually look at what we 've paid for some of the players say over the last two or three years , I guess you 're looking at about three hundred and fifty thousand pounds .
2 ‘ We have reviewed the results and the fact is we lost as many as we have won over the last two seasons , ’ said Bates .
3 An important element is the development of a database recording all the 100,000 ships built over the last two centuries .
4 He decided the wisest course was to pool all he had made over the last two years , enabling Julian to purchase the lease of a high street property .
5 Certainly , there is evidence that the number of women convicted of assaults , woundings and violent crime has risen over the last two decades .
6 This positive momentum has accelerated over the last two or three years , though the Campaign is the first to recognise that it is only a modest part of a much larger movement .
7 Up to 1,500 Indians may have died over the last two years as a result of the gold miners ' presence on their land .
8 He added that no household-name company had escaped making job cuts over the last two years .
9 So many things happened over the last two rounds , it 's sometimes hard to remember the first two ; I just know it was Trevino versus Jacklin again in the third round and , of course , they were playing together once more .
10 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 .
11 Huge there 's been huge drug busting over the last two years .
12 Of particular interest , given that rates of divorce have been rising over the last two decades , is whether relatives commonly provide housing for people who have separated from a married or cohabiting partner .
13 The numbers getting over the last two hurdles can probably be found by a later survey , but the time involved is such that this will surely be a separate activity .
14 The environmental quality of national parks in England and Wales has deteriorated over the last two decades , according to the first-ever national survey carried out for the Countryside Commission .
15 and MOS equipment , which again , we we 've b successfully been doing over the last two or three years .
16 What it means for the homes is that they 're going to have to take a what we 've been doing over the last two or three years is gradually improving the staffing levels in our elderly people 's homes , because the dependency levels in those homes are getting very high .
17 That is because of the way we 've behaved over the last two years .
18 I think it 's it 's fairly reasonable particularly when you consider what we 've experienced over the last two three and four seasons .
19 The Barcelona festival is the most enjoyable , experimental stop on what Gibson jokingly calls the ‘ virtual rubber chicken circuit ’ , a global network of theoretical conferences , trade fairs and arty think tanks which has developed over the last two years to tap the millennial fascination with virtual reality .
20 The software , developed over the last two years at DEC West in Washington , should free systems managers to be proactive in identifying and preventing potential systems problems while reducing the cost of systems management .
21 I mean over the last two years it 's been shock horror headlines , you know , will endowments fail to repay the loan , are endowments good value and I ke some of the journalists I 've read bef over the last two years have actually completely reversed what they said t two years ago when P E Ps were declining because of poor share markets and bonuses were coming through quite nicely on the endowments , they said oh endowments are the thing to do .
22 Much of the publicity that drug usage has received over the last two or three years has been counter-productive .
23 As to the type of employment the interesting feature that I experienced over the last two to three years as shown is that the inquiry level the type of inquiries has tended to focus on manufacturing and the attraction has been the quality of the work force , that is both in skill and its healthiness you know the liability and there are other issues in there too about where Britain is at these days in terms of immunisation wage levels , but it is the people that are themselves the major attractors so the potential work force in the locality that is the major attractor .
24 Of one thing I am certain : I am sure we all agree that what has emerged over the last two years has exceeded our expectations .
25 It was not until January that EMI at last rid themselves of the Sex Pistols — ‘ in view of the adverse publicity generated over the last two months ’ , as an official statement put it — and at a cost of £50,000 in settlement .
26 One of the one of the difficulties is that that that theatres up and down the country have faced over the last two years of the new target that were brought in with the eighty eight education act where schools were not allowed to make a charge it could only be a voluntary contribution now the council of Great Britain have looked at this it 's a problem cos of this decimated schools audiences .
27 This model , based initially on the fairly crude neuroanatomical data available a century ago , has stood the test of time remarkably well but data obtained over the last two decades have prompted modifications in the details .
28 Mr Prescott , who was given a rousing reception after his election to Labour 's national executive earlier this week , condemned Paul Channon , the former Secretary of State for Transport , for refusing to accept that government policies had played a part in the series of transport disasters that had occured over the last two years .
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