Example sentences of "[noun sg] over [art] past few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks largely to our supporters around the world , we in UNICEF have put everything we can into our worldwide immunisation programme over the past few years . |
| 2 | I wish he would keep his eyes off me , Laura thought grimly , feeling certain that she must have experienced almost a lifetime 's amount of tension over the past few days . |
| 3 | I believe that our pensioners have had a very poor deal over the past few years — |
| 4 | Some 75 per cent of Perkins ' UK production is shipped overseas , and the company has picked up four Queen 's Awards for export over the past few years . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've been deluged with stories about the American nuclear industry over the past few years . |
| 6 | You did n't have to be an angry young man to look around the car industry over the past few weeks and despair of ever hearing any good news . |
| 7 | William Waldegrave , Secretary of State for Health , has shown himself to be no friend of the tobacco industry over the past few weeks . |
| 8 | Could you just give me an impression of what 's happened in the aviation industry over the past few weeks , because I think I am right in saying that the number of people flying actually has been drastically reduced . |
| 9 | Shipwreck treasure ( in particular porcelain ) has proved a strong seller at auction over the past few years , witness the Nanking cargo of 150,000 pieces sold in 1986 for £10.1 million . |
| 10 | Research over the past few years has led me to observe elsewhere ( Cartwright , 1984 ) that in education in general — and arts education is no different in this respect — assessment comes in all forms and guises , and that the type of assessment practised is dependent upon the reasons for its use . |
| 11 | This area has seen much urban renewal over the past few years , with £6 million spent on rebuilding and refurbishment programmes . |
| 12 | I am sure that we all want to pass on our good wishes to his wife and family after their terrible ordeal over the past few months . |
| 13 | Members of Darlington recreation committee yesterday heard how more than £3,500 worth of damage had been caused to art works in the Myles Meehan Gallery over the past few months . |
| 14 | By this time I was becoming a little dissatisfied with the imprinting set-up that had become the stock in trade of my lab over the past few years , and I planned to try using an alternative form of learning in the chick . |
| 15 | ‘ Having said that , we have managed to carve out more and more independence over the past few years . |
| 16 | His parents had detected a smell in the room over the past few weeks and had noticed a damp patch . |
| 17 | ‘ Ashley was disappointed to be left out and felt that his record over the past few seasons was good enough for him to have kept his place . |
| 18 | Strategies for integrating data reported at different geographical scales and for different map projections have received considerable attention over the past few decades ( Robinson et al. 1984 ; Burrough 1986 ) . |
| 19 | Other polls have been published in the newspapers , however , and the issue has gained a good deal of attention over the past few weeks . |
| 20 | One of the most exciting developments in biology over the past few years has been the identification of the specific genes that allow some viruses to cause cancer . |
| 21 | This is , of course , symptomatic of the rapid move over the past few years away from a consensus-based approach to education policy making towards one based on central autonomy . |
| 22 | More useful than the rainstorms has been the steady drizzle over the past few weeks . |
| 23 | The town has made great strides forward working with the community and business over the past few years in cleaning up the town and making it the kind of place which is able to compete and win a national environmental accolade . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The town has made great strides forward working with the community and business over the past few years , and making it the kind of place which is able and compete and win a national environmental accolade . ’ |
| 25 | Admitting that the security forces were involved in a recent wave of kidnappings and murders of students , he said that his government did not have the means to combat the activities which had taken place over the past few months , aimed at creating a climate of terror and instability in order to justify an attempt to return to the past or the installation of a president who would promise a tough policy . |
| 26 | Europe is now experiencing the political consequences of several changes that have been taking place over the past few years . |
| 27 | I am also sure that schools will take these concepts , adapt them to their needs and circumstances and successfully absorb them , as they have with the many other innovations taken on board by education over the past few years . |
| 28 | I do n't think I 'll bother to answer the remarks that others need to say of course tremendous resources have gone into the health service over the past few years , but I think whatever government is in power , it will never be enough for all the new developments in the health service , and that is always the trouble , whoever would be there would find it difficult . |
| 29 | Although I left him in no doubts about my opinion of his behaviour over the past few weeks , I was n't quite as brutal with him as I might have been . |
| 30 | ‘ BP has deferred activity in this area over the past few years , ’ said Neil Butler , Business manager , SSH . |