Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] over [art] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the interior had been very much altered over the years and little original work of consequence remained visible . |
| 2 | Lewis had a distinctive manner of lecturing , which was not greatly altered over the years . |
| 3 | There has not been too much building to spoil the village , and the population has not greatly altered over the years , so it is a pleasant village in which to live . |
| 4 | There are Early American patchwork quilts in red and white , an 1840 American cradle and a homely 20-dollar porch chair , all collected over the years . |
| 5 | It is a condition that has so worsened over the years that I no longer dare perform introductions I simply mumble ’ You two must know each other ’ and leave them to sort it out . |
| 6 | There was also a lot of clay in one part of the garden and sand in the rest , but the soil has been much improved over the years by generous additions of peat . |
| 7 | When she felt she could not naturally stand by the window any longer she went and inspected the gritty old review copies of books which had somehow collected over the years on the office shelves — Take Your Car to North Africa ! |
| 8 | A good deal of the historical footage I had already seen over the years and some of it , such as the dreadful footage of the Warsaw Ghetto , was only too familiar . |
| 9 | These stylistic differences have gradually eroded over the years , and today regional divisions have all but disappeared . |
| 10 | The funding of capital expenditure is usually spread over the years that benefit will accrue . |
| 11 | The programme was gradually effected over the years , with interruptions for the trailer and OMO programmes , the last car 709 being rebuilt in 1980 ! |
| 12 | John Greame built Sewerby Hall on the site of the old manor house in 1715 and the property was gradually extended over the years , being completed by the adding of the conservatory in Victorian times . |
| 13 | The furniture , too , looked as if it had been gradually acquired over the years ; gifts , rejects , the unregarded remnants of long-forgotten jumble sales . |
| 14 | That is to say , the initiatives that are under way , far from alleviating concerns repeatedly expressed over the years , appear to be confirming the worst suspicions of teachers and other commentators . |
| 15 | The CPRW 's Pembrokeshire Branch has been strongly committed over the years to ensuring that the Dyfed Structure Plan , the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Plan and all local plans pay due regard to the need to protect the environmental quality of the area . |
| 16 | ‘ All our things are country things that have been well used over the years , and we use them all the time , and live with them , and enjoy them . ’ |
| 17 | The notion that you have a group of children that you can categorize , say like partially sighted , or maladjusted , or educationally subnormal , and that they should have a special education , is one that 's been increasingly challenged over the years and I think the Warnock Report actually moves considerably away from that notion and says no , we do n't want to separate off a particular group because they appear to have a single erm or even a multiple disability , what we want to do is to look at the needs of each individual child and ask what is it about that particular child that makes the achievement of education objectives more difficult than another child . |
| 18 | But when Grainne came to the Castle , he knew himself lost , and he knew that the carapace so diligently acquired over the years was melting . |
| 19 | It will not please members of the Prison Officers Association , who have kept me well informed over the years . |
| 20 | It was built in 1803 but had been badly modernised over the years . |
| 21 | The social invisibility of the farm worker has enabled his plight to be virtually ignored over the years . |
| 22 | The Conference proceedings have been consistently published over the years and the 1989 Autumn Conference reflects the expansion and interest in action research in as much as it extends to the three separate publications listed above . |
| 23 | Is it not ironic that the Government are introducing the Bill at a time when virtually all the political parties — parties which rarely find common ground , as we have tragically and sadly witnessed over the years — see eye to eye in opposing the scheme ? |
| 24 | However , she maintained the moral impetus of her early years , although she had quite cast off its derivations and turned her back upon its fraudulent source ; the narrow fervours and disapprovals were there , but their objects had subtly altered over the years . |
| 25 | Cooper kept constant his production of cows and sheep in pasture during the length of his very lengthy career and , in spite of such a very narrow register for the subject of his painting , his works were steadily collected over the years . |
| 26 | The announced intention behind the 1989 Housing Act is to increase the stock of rented housing — which has steadily diminished over the years . |
| 27 | Labour 's problem is that its core constituency in the manual working class has steadily declined over the years . |
| 28 | Originally a 9-holer designed by Tom Dunn , Sheringham was extended to 18 holes in 1898 and , little changed over the years , it particularly suits the English ladies , it seems : their amateur championship has been played here several times , most recently in 1991 . |
| 29 | It is right that our procedures should be subject to challenge and change , but her idea of turning a Government Advisory Unit into some kind of Oxford tutorial is an absurd perversion of everything that has been so slowly and painstakingly developed over the years . |
| 30 | The less they saw of each other , Constance had reluctantly accepted over the years , the better friends she and her mother were . |