Example sentences of "over the [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To someone accustomed by the existing advanced accounting courses , with no involvement in the National Certificate , the proposals seemed somewhat revolutionary and the document generated a good deal of discussion over the following few weeks on the relative merits of the B1 and B2 models etc . |
| 2 | I remembered , however , that my father had told me of this sort of thing happening in the past , and the sands had always returned over the following few weeks and months . |
| 3 | Francis Tidbury received a certain amount of sympathy over the following few days , but the public were so outraged at the brutality involved , it carried little weight . |
| 4 | Her next door neighbour , a Mrs. Ellen Greaves , gave evidence that she had constantly challenged Esther Dyson in sign language ( which she had learnt through daily contact with the deaf brother and sister ) over the preceding few months about her being in the family way . |
| 5 | Two more recent developments have been home blood glucose monitoring and the glycosylated haemoglobin ( HbA 1 ) or fructosamine — indicators of the integrated blood glucose level over the preceding few weeks . |
| 6 | Some Age Concern groups , social services departments and other organisations run a variety of hospital discharge schemes which can help people over the first few days or weeks after a stay in hospital . |
| 7 | Again she went over the first few days of their itinerary in her mind . |
| 8 | I shall want a good start and be up there over the first few fences . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Since new SVQs are being accredited almost on a monthly basis , SCOTVEC is introducing ‘ SVQ Accreditation Update ’ which will list all accredited SVQs and those expected to be approved over the ensuing few months . |
| 11 | If such a revolution comes about , there will doubtless be a role for the huge accelerators physicists have built to construct and test the standard model over the past few decades . |
| 12 | Over the past few decades , however , the approach to conservation and protection of our cultural heritage has changed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The western diet has changed dramatically over the past few decades . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Over the past few decades , the world 's demand for tin has fallen dramatically as packagers have reduced the thickness of the metal in tinplate or have turned to other materials for their containers , aluminium for instance . |
| 17 | Over the past few decades , considerable research effort and capital has been directed towards developing materials that do not cause thrombus formation when exposed to blood . |
| 18 | Over the past few decades researchers have shown that chimps can create artworks ( abstract thought ) , use tools in a quite sophisticated fashion , and understand the concept of language : humans and chimps can use sign languages like Ameslan to communicate with each other to a reasonably advanced level . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | In most other countries those firms employing over 1000 workers have substantially increased their share of output and employment over the past few decades , so why is Japan different ? |
| 21 | In most other countries those firms employing over 1000 workers have substantially increased their share of output and employment over the past few decades , so why is Japan different ? |
| 22 | The fact is , beneath all the nonsense about the so-called ‘ new man ’ , men and the male culture have changed dramatically over the past few decades . |
| 23 | Over the past few decades , in particular , in structuralist anthropology , psychoanalysis , and Marxist theory , there has been a major theoretical effort to challenge the naturalness of the ‘ unitary subject ’ in social theory , to see the individual as a product of social forces , an ‘ ensemble of social relations ’ , rather than as a simple natural unity . |
| 24 | An interesting speculation is that the decline in H pylori infection over the past few decades would account at least in part for the reported decline in duodenal ulcer disease in Western populations . |
| 25 | We live in a technological age , and there are going to be major changes without a doubt , we 've all seen them over the past few decades , and into the future there are going to be many major changes . |
| 26 | Over the past few games McAllister might as well stayed in bed for all he did IMHO . |
| 27 | She had n't been keeping track of the conversation , but he seemed to have pulled himself together over the past few minutes . |
| 28 | ‘ We received enough indications over the past few days that he could have gone through with it , ’ a senior spokesman said . |
| 29 | ‘ Not many of the original lot that landed at La Breche five days ago , ’ I replied , ‘ There have been a lot of casualties since the landing , many of them caused by mortar fire over the past few days . |
| 30 | The newsheet had started to appear over the past few days as the villagers began to return to their homes . |