Example sentences of "over the past " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | No effort has been made to investigate the tens of thousands of murders and ‘ disappearances ’ that have occurred over the past three years : in February , Sri Lankan human rights activists estimated that 40,000 people had ‘ disappeared ’ since 1987 . |
| 2 | These are now due to occur in 1991 , having been postponed on several occasions over the past few years . |
| 3 | On the one hand , force has been required to subordinate it , and , on the other , it has always threatened to outbreed protestant loyalists , an outcome which has only been avoided by catholic — nationalist migration over the past seventy years . |
| 4 | We have had a substantial reduction over the past 10 years . ’ |
| 5 | The number of establishments in retail catering has almost doubled over the past 20 years , with licensed restaurants the fastest growing sector . |
| 6 | One of these , PC-Hornet , which has been developed over the past 10 years , will be shown for the first time by McDonnell Douglas . |
| 7 | She had learned , over the past five years , that a vicar 's wife is expected to be sympathetic , helpful , and above reproach . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , but how many of these wonderfully high-paid jobs have you been offered over the past eighteen months ? ’ |
| 9 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 10 | I am writing in reply to all the letters you have printed over the past few months about Steffi Graf . |
| 11 | Everything that has happened to her over the past year has been genuine , from breaking her thumb to the operation , not to mention all the hassle she has had from standing by her father . |
| 12 | If you have not used the FDR regularly over the past six months , do not change it . |
| 13 | We have reviewed our corporate design over the past few months and as from November we will be presenting a new design for this newsletter series . |
| 14 | The idea of ‘ care in the community ’ has developed over the past 20 years to encourage the development of services to help older people in need of care to remain in their own homes for as long as they wish , and for as long as is practical . |
| 15 | These numbers have increased considerably over the past few years , partly because income support is available to help cover the fees of residential and nursing home care , and money to pay for care at home is not easily available . |
| 16 | Over the past couple of years we have seen application tools embrace the facilities offered by the Windows front end or graphics user interfaces ( GUIs ) . |
| 17 | Evidence of excessive demand There is some observable good sense in this argument , and it helps to explain why sterling has not hit the fan a lot earlier , during a truly spectacular swing from surplus to deficit over the past two years . |
| 18 | Over the past 12 months the price of lower medium quality tea , which is the main ingredient in the British cuppa and imparts that unique lorry-driver flavour , has almost doubled from 78p a kilogramme to 135p . |
| 19 | Having devoted most of his political life to touring constituencies and union branches , he has barely needed to campaign for the constituency section of the executive over the past two months . |
| 20 | But research over the past 40 years or so has revealed some great surprises in the natural world . |
| 21 | Kingston , whose coach Kevin Cadle watched Friday night 's semi-final , did not qualify for the tournament because they did not compete in the League last season although their form over the past three weeks suggests they will be front runners over the next seven months . |
| 22 | But the price tags attached to the various deals over the past year have also shown that musicians and copyright have become big business . |
| 23 | AMP said that over the past 10 years , measured in terms of new annual premiums , Pearl 's market position has fallen sharply and its share has declined consistently . |
| 24 | Andrew Hugh Smith , ISE chairman , said : ‘ Turnover in UK equities has seen an increase of almost 50 per cent over the past year , alleviating some of the problems caused by the very low volumes after the market crash . |
| 25 | The economies of Hong Kong and China have grown so interdependent over the past decade that neither could easily contemplate a rupture . |
| 26 | The colony has grown rich over the past decade as gatekeeper to China 's open door . |
| 27 | He also said that the Prince and Princess of Wales would not make a planned visit to China in November ‘ so long as those responsible for the atrocities over the past weekend remain in control of the Chinese government ’ . |
| 28 | Over the past 20 years the Department of the Environment , its Property Services Agency , English Heritage , the Queen 's household and , in the case of the Tower of London , the military have run the palaces together — with the success normally associated with widely-drawn committees . |
| 29 | Terry McLaughlin , the deputy editor of the Irish News , said some of the material shown to him was marked ‘ top secret ’ , the highest security classification , and went beyond the type of photo-montage material that has been widely leaked over the past month . |
| 30 | Erskine , long resident in Stockholm , is known for the warm , humane domestic , public and commercial buildings he has designed in Sweden over the past 50 years . |