Example sentences of "had been built [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 2 | Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin . |
| 3 | Employees ' attitudes er were fairly stable , fairly stable and some of the work that was done was so highly skilled er that it needed a craftsman 's experience to be able to get to that stage of being able to turn a job you know , to very fine limits , or to grind an objective to absolutely no limits , or to , to assemble a job with all the skill and the know-how that had been built up over his twenty five or thirty years ' experience you know , along with his colleagues . |
| 4 | A reputation had been built up over several years for the use of computers in the fields of manpower planning , personnel statistics and other industrial relations applications . |
| 5 | Interestingly , the two semicircular towers had been built out over the filled ditch of the earlier rampart , as had the semioctagonal external tower at the north-west corner . |