Example sentences of "[vb pp] over the past few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the hospitals in Southampton have been rebuilt over the past few years . |
| 2 | Sterling lost all gains made over the past few days after the Germans cut a quarter per cent off their interest rate . |
| 3 | The apparently calm , almost holiday mood of this Bosnian couple disguises the sheer terror they 've endured over the past few weeks . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Various speakers congratulated us on the marvellous work we had done over the past few months . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Several other infinitely more damaging conversations involving him have been taped over the past few weeks . |
| 8 | The team has been restructured over the past few months . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes Donald , the team has undoubtedly deteriorated over the past few years . ’ |
| 12 | This robustness has been proved over the past few years even through the economic downturns of the early 1980s . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been living in fear , undermined over the past few weeks , ’ he moaned . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Changes in LSW and other water masses of the subpolar North Atlantic have already been observed over the past few years . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | I am writing in reply to all the letters you have printed over the past few months about Steffi Graf . |
| 19 | Although margins have been hit over the past few years by competition from contractors and because the company has kept its prices fairly constant , he said the decision to ‘ cross-skill ’ employees should result in increased margins . |
| 20 | No government warning on food issued over the past few years has been rescinded , but most people prefer to forget them , whilst sources of food poisoning remain unstopped . |
| 21 | It is perhaps because of an effort to buck the trend towards an insufferable and market-conscious cleverness that we are witnessing an attempt amongst more committed narrators to seek out a way of dealing directly with the emotions , without all the paraphernalia of intrigue and description that has accumulated over the past few years . |
| 22 | For me , the moment of realisation that something more must be done to identify the aggressor and to hold him to account came last week , when I was invited to open an exhibition of photographs at the building centre in Store street , London , of some of the Croatian buildings destroyed over the past few months . |
| 23 | This results in the Collectair library gaining valuable notes , all of which is carefully filed away for use as and when the archive that has been created over the past few years becomes available to students of aviation history . |
| 24 | I think that erm even something as basic as motorway service areas have improved over the past few years , and this is simply my own personal experience , not particularly Fodors . |
| 25 | He spent his time putting down on odd scraps of vellum his different thoughts on what he had learnt over the past few weeks . |