Example sentences of "[verb] over [art] past few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She should have been sharing breakfast with Kelly right now , laughing and chatting , catching up on all that had been happening over the past few months . |
| 2 | All the hospitals in Southampton have been rebuilt over the past few years . |
| 3 | As Kmart has begun putting these data to work over the past few years , the company 's operations have become steadily more centralised . |
| 4 | The newsheet had started to appear over the past few days as the villagers began to return to their homes . |
| 5 | Sterling lost all gains made over the past few days after the Germans cut a quarter per cent off their interest rate . |
| 6 | The apparently calm , almost holiday mood of this Bosnian couple disguises the sheer terror they 've endured over the past few weeks . |
| 7 | Also on Sept. 18 UK Prime Minister John Major referred in a television interview to " fault lines in the ERM revealed over the past few days " , and said that there was no imminent prospect of the UK returning to the ERM , which itself needed reform , while Bundesbank president Helmut Schlesinger said in Washington on Sept. 21 that serious negotiations would be needed before sterling could be readmitted to the ERM . |
| 8 | Various speakers congratulated us on the marvellous work we had done over the past few months . |
| 9 | Course measuring , which has been one of the most important areas of work in road racing over the past few years , has certainly not suffered for want of funding . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've built up a dossier on his drug and arms deals over the past few years . |
| 11 | There are frequent reports , some of them in the Soviet press , of bungling and inefficiency in both exploration and production , yet expert opinion on what the Soviet oil industry can achieve has been shown over the past few years to be wildly wrong . |
| 12 | Several other infinitely more damaging conversations involving him have been taped over the past few weeks . |
| 13 | The team has been restructured over the past few months . |
| 14 | That removes the Government 's mask which they have worn over the past few months as they have tried to pursue the idea of cheap gas . |
| 15 | The strongest activity has been at the bottom end of the market , where there is considerable pent-up demand from first-time buyers who have delayed buying over the past few years , for fear that house prices would fall further . |
| 16 | Thousands of pounds have been raised over the past few months by the local community and by Wirral council colleagues of the boys ' father Bob , who works in the highways and building services department . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes Donald , the team has undoubtedly deteriorated over the past few years . ’ |
| 18 | The workers feel the package is derisory , particularly as they have accepted minimum wage rises over the past few years and Yarrow has at least three years ' work on its books . |
| 19 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 20 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 21 | spend my time doing over the past few years . |
| 22 | We have been doing over the past few nights |
| 23 | This robustness has been proved over the past few years even through the economic downturns of the early 1980s . |
| 24 | The UK 's leading environmental groups are maintaining levels of support through the recession , but the rapid rate of membership growth experienced over the past few years has slackened . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been living in fear , undermined over the past few weeks , ’ he moaned . |
| 26 | My legs are shaded by the dust which has gathered over the past few days , so that the contrast is like a Coppertone ad , with the puppy pulling a little girl 's knickers off . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've grown to realise over the past few weeks just how much the place really does mean to you , ’ he said quietly . |
| 28 | Changes in LSW and other water masses of the subpolar North Atlantic have already been observed over the past few years . |
| 29 | The change in the orbit of the earth is too slow to be observed , but this same effect has been observed over the past few years occurring in the system called PSR 1913+16 ( PSR stands for " pulsar , " a special type of neutron star that emits regular pulses of radio waves ) . |
| 30 | I am writing in reply to all the letters you have printed over the past few months about Steffi Graf . |