Example sentences of "over [art] [num ord] few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government estimated that nearly one in three businesses would pay rate increases of more than 50 per cent over the first few years , with some paying more than double their previous bill . |
| 2 | All of this and he 's not even recovering from any broken bones ( Ben 's specialty over the last few years has been to break a bone and then come back and do or repeat the world 's hardest route ! ) |
| 3 | Chaos and fractal imagery have hit the technical and popular imagination over the last few years , and the King 's DSP group is working on a number of applications for this new branch of mathematics . |
| 4 | CB is also most unlikely to reach its ambitious goal of generating half its earnings outside France by 1992 , despite having started 20 new businesses in Europe over the last few years . |
| 5 | For however inaccurate the figures are , their inaccuracies can not have increased sufficiently to explain the sharply deteriorating trend of the balance of payments over the last few years . |
| 6 | Professor Alan Leadbetter , Daresbury 's director , said its buying power had declined by 7 per cent per year over the last few years . |
| 7 | Let us suppose that a Government , a party , observing that the rate of increase of the national income has been as high as 3 per cent in real terms over the last few years , were to decide to make plans which involve the growth of public expenditure at the rate of 2and1/2 ; per cent , so as to be a little within the recent happy experience . |
| 8 | Over the last few years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of rigs available from shops . |
| 9 | The Dorset , Devon and Cornwall holiday areas benefited from the good summer weather and from the upgrading of pubs carried out over the last few years . |
| 10 | Over the last few years the house has changed hands many times . |
| 11 | Herbert Tracey reflected that the ‘ defeatist ’ mood of the trade unions over the last few years had been transformed . |
| 12 | This will be familiar to anyone who has followed the debates over the last few years concerning the ordination of women within the Anglican Church . |
| 13 | Culled largely from pieces that first appeared in Melody Maker over the last few years , it amounts to the precise , enthusiastic explication of ‘ bliss ’ ; a kind of untidy sensual and emotional confusion engendered by the disruptive , abnormal qualities of his favourite music ( which includes the Pixies , Sonic Youth and Public Enemy ) . |
| 14 | These are the things that we have both missed out on over the last few years , both of us working at all times . ’ |
| 15 | It is true that employee numbers have been reduced by around an eighth over the last few years but only as a by-product of the printer 's massive £130m capital investment programme . |
| 16 | This is our first effort at a full newsletter and we now really appreciate how much effort Lynn has put in over the last few years . |
| 17 | Over the last few years , Keith Cardwell has become a big name in ‘ documentary photography ’ , he explains just how and why |
| 18 | Over the last few years , Keith Cardwell has become a big name in ‘ documentary photography ’ , he explains just how and why |
| 19 | The leisure sector has experienced phenomenal growth over the last few years . |
| 20 | The new standard is the result of much hard work over the last few years by manufacturers , contractors and specifiers . |
| 21 | The Faunus Kennel has dominated the Swedish scene over the last few years , one of their top winners being Faunus Bullit . |
| 22 | ‘ One of my problems over the last few years has been that I 'm amazingly optimistic — really stupid in fact ! |
| 23 | The success of the Green Movement over the last few years has left that rather uncomfortable question hanging in the air . |
| 24 | Today the big draught breeds , especially in the Massif Central , have found new roles in the beef industry and over the last few years they have been exported in increasing numbers to boost beef production in several parts of the world , sometimes displacing some of the famous traditional British beef breeds . |
| 25 | The North East CABx have seen the effects of unemployment in their area on a large scale over the last few years . |
| 26 | It will be mentioned in several contexts that the complexity of CAB advice work over the last few years has increased considerably . |
| 27 | Few would disagree that the CAB has raised its profile in the public eye over the last few years . |
| 28 | Over the last few years , some of the gross distortions of early generations of textbooks have been removed . |
| 29 | As in South Africa itself , the authorities had increased spending on education over the last few years , so that qualified teachers are fairly well paid , and except in the poorest regions , school building stock is in reasonable repair . |
| 30 | Better police equipment might lead to more offences being recorded , as might an increase in police numbers , and over the last few years there has been a recruitment drive by the police . |