Example sentences of "[noun pl] over [art] [adj] few decades " in BNC.
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1 | This problem , associated with attempts to ascribe probabilities to scientific laws and theories in the light of given evidence , has given rise to a detailed technical research programme that has been tenaciously pursued and developed by inductivists over the last few decades . |
2 | Managers should never be administrators Over the last few decades the distinction between leaders , managers and administrators has become increasingly blurred , to the detriment of profit and people alike . |
3 | The fossil record seemed to indicate sudden steps rather than continuous development , although new discoveries over the next few decades would help the evolutionists ' case . |
4 | Remembrement — the government sponsored reorganisation of land to produce larger fields and rationalised farms — has had a major impact on agricultural productivity and intensification in many parts of the French lowlands over the last few decades . |
5 | Research in the Somerset Levels over the last few decades has produced a mass of evidence of prehistoric timber trackways built to cross the low-lying marshy land between the uplands of the Mendips and Poldens and islands in the Levels . |
6 | But if we look at the chemistry and other science portrayed in comics and illustrated periodicals , we can see an interesting shift in public attitudes over the past few decades . |
7 | On the other hand , without the use of a simulation model it is difficult to visualize the effect that changes in fertility or in mortality are likely to have on trends over the next few decades . |
8 | Very many educational reports over the past few decades have portrayed black pupils as having special needs because their cultural background is inadequate ( e.g. Rampton Report , 1981 ) . |
9 | There certainly have been many changes in both attitudes to women 's sexuality and in women 's sexual practices over the last few decades . |