Example sentences of "[adj] over [art] past few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As reports from the Select Committee on Defence have made clear over the past few years , defence cuts are proceeding at such a pace that , if a future Labour Government continued in the same way , we would be left with Securicor and Group 4 to defend our shores and a steamship company to provide us with a substitute for the Royal Navy . |
| 2 | It was my own experiences with herbal treatments , due to being ill over the past few years , that convinced me that there was more than just a placebo effect at work . |
| 3 | Although conservation measures are understood to have been rigorously applied and economic growth has been sluggish or negative over the past few years , neither energy consumption nor oil consumption has fallen in any significant way in Eastern Europe . |
| 4 | I have been indecently assaulted by many a wise old family physician in my time : the passion for mammary examination — which has saved almost no lives at all over the past few years , it now appears-has been fomented and encouraged by male doctors . |
| 5 | It has proved extremely effective over the past few years . |
| 6 | Japan 's Matsushita and Sony have each invested more than $5 billion over the past few years in America 's entertainment business , while Time and Warner have merged in the belief that big companies can best exploit a proliferating array of new media . |
| 7 | She had done enough of that over the past few weeks , and had found that it led nowhere . |
| 8 | Things have been very difficult over the past few months , because of the way my boyfriend treats Liam . |
| 9 | Rigney has been training quietly on his own over the past few weeks and believes that he will be back in action in the New Year for Greystones . |
| 10 | Paul Davison , director of strategic development at Rosyth , said he had become increasingly optimistic over the past few weeks . |
| 11 | I have n't been too bad over the past few years but I 've certainly been left with the legacy of my habit . |
| 12 | Neither can the fact that the bagpipes of the various regimental associations and lobby groups were remarkably silent over the past few weeks . |