Example sentences of "over [art] last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Labour confidently outlined the contents of its first Queen 's Speech , including a commitment to introduce by summer a Bill to establish a Scottish Parliament , the three main parties prepared for a big push over the last weekend of the campaign . |
| 2 | Over the last weekend , he single-handedly managed to create a 3-4 point drop in his own party 's support , with a knock-on effect against Labour . |
| 3 | THE annual fun weekend organised by the Resource Centre , Carnhill , will this year take place over the last weekend in May . |
| 4 | The first major show to examine the development of Russian art over the last century . |
| 5 | In fact , the courts have progressively narrowed this species of manslaughter over the last century or so : there was a time when the mere commission of a tort or civil wrong sufficed as the ‘ unlawful act ’ , and when there was no additional requirement of ‘ dangerousness ’ to be satisfied . |
| 6 | The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century . |
| 7 | But a study of the Roman coins accumulated over the last century or so in museums has thrown up consistent differences between northern France and Italy , enabling certain conclusions to be drawn about the currencies of those areas . |
| 8 | Much of the structure still survives , largely ( visually ) unaltered over the last century . |
| 9 | Although traditional shopfronts add charm and individuality to high streets , unprecedented damage has been done over the last century . |
| 10 | Furthermore , the litanies of ‘ respectable fears ’ and ‘ moral panics ’ are only one of the discourses about ‘ law and order ’ found in popular , political , or academic discussion over the last century . |
| 11 | The exhibition , which continues until May 2nd , will illustrate the changes in the county 's landscape over the last century . |
| 12 | The trade in wild animals as pets and status symbols has increased dramatically over the last century to the point at which many animals are now very rare and in danger of being wiped out . |
| 13 | In fact one study ( Armstrong 1984 ) reports that over the last century in Britain each 4 per cent increase in hourly wage rates for males has been followed by a 1 per cent reduction in hours worked per year . |
| 14 | In the arts it has become over the last century not the exception but almost the rule for the innovator at the crucial time of forming his style to find something in another culture from which he can learn , an influence not superficial , as in eighteenth century chinoiserie , but radical ( the Impressionists and the Japanese woodcut , Debussy and the Javanese gamelan , Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese architecture , the Imagists and Japanese and Chinese poetry , the Cubists and African sculpture , Henry Moore and the Mexican Chac Mool , Brecht and Chinese theatre , Artaud and Balinese dance ) . |
| 15 | Unlike younger people , who have become more dependent upon the ‘ middle ’ generation over the last century , the position of older people has moved , if anywhere , in the direction of greater independence . |
| 16 | Despite legal changes , smaller families and improved educational and employment opportunities over the last century or so , marked inequalities remain between the social and economic roles of men and women . |
| 17 | First we examine the trends in population structure in Britain over the last century and the forecasts for the early decades of the next millennium . |
| 18 | Changes in mortality have influenced the marital status composition of the older age groups in Britain over the last century . |
| 19 | Patterns of family formation have changed significantly in Britain over the last century . |
| 20 | As measured by the mortality index , the health status of the population has improved markedly over the last century and a half . |
| 21 | Over the last century or so there have been frequent conflicts between individual and group interests . |
| 22 | While there have been some minor reductions of segregation over the last century , the basic fact of extensive segregation by gender in employment remains a striking feature of the labour market . |
| 23 | However , the actual reproduction or modernist form over the last century and a half has revealed exactly the opposite tendency , since objects formed entirely on the basis of utility have proved singularly unattractive ( which accounts for their general absence from commercial marketing ) . |
| 24 | He argues that over the last century or so the number of white-collar jobs has increased rapidly , but at the same time the skill required to do the jobs has been reduced . |
| 25 | Although rural populations have traditionally been more fertile than their urban counterparts , by far the most significant factor in rural population change over the last century has been migration . |
| 26 | Given this framework and governing principles , the civil service has operated without many upheavals over the last century . |
| 27 | Global sea level has risen by 10–20 cm over the last century partly as a response to the 0.5 °C rise in global temperature during that time . |
| 28 | We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century . |
| 29 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 30 | Over the last century , the number of taxes has mushroomed and the system is now so complex that few understand it fully . |