Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] [adj] decades " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the following four decades , Turner 's firm specialized in the manufacture of these buildings and erected many examples throughout Britain , including those at Marlfield , county Tipperary ; the wings of the Palm House , Belfast Botanic Gardens , 1839–40 ; the range at Killakee , county Dublin ; the curvilinear range in the National Botanic Gardens , Dublin , 1843–8 and 1868–9 ; the Winter Garden in the Inner Circle , Regent 's Park , London , 1845–6 , 1870–1 , and 1875–6 ( demolished 1932 ) ; the range at Haddo House , Aberdeenshire , 1844–5 ; the Victoria Regia House , Royal Botanic Gardens , Kew , 1852 ; and Woodstock , county Kilkenny . |
| 2 | The lack of international controls in the North Pacific Ocean , and the proliferation of the salmon , tuna , billfish , and squid drift-net fleets over the past two decades , has resulted in the development of a North Pacific fishery so huge that during the 6-month season , the 1000 or so vessels involved deploy 35 million km ( 1.9–3.4 million miles ) of netting . |
| 3 | Taiwan 's economic growth has been probably the world 's fastest over the past two decades . |
| 4 | There has been a significant reduction in the numbers of young people placed in residential settings over the past two decades . |
| 5 | He mentioned studies over the past two decades — this is far too short a period to obtain real evidence in such matters . |
| 6 | The histories of Nicaragua and Mozambique over the past two decades have similarities . |
| 7 | Yet over the past two decades the period of development , of safety testing , and of approval , has risen from 3 or 4 years , to something like 10 years . |
| 8 | Yet over the past two decades we have seen reductions , in almost all countries surveyed , from eight to seven and sometimes even to six year primary cycles . |
| 9 | While this view may have been valid a century ago , the situation has changed over the past two decades and ceramics are now widely used in many engineering applications , including wear components , seals , bearing surfaces and engine components . |
| 10 | Over the past two decades , the Commission and Court have been asked by aggrieved individuals to rule upon matters such as the rights of prisoners to communicate with the outside world and police interrogation methods . |
| 11 | On the office walls are the shoes and work tools of those killed in police shootings over the past two decades . |
| 12 | Abundant research over the past two decades has indicated that the language employed by most adults when addressing babies and infants is , in fact , highly simplified and largely correct in terms of grammar . |
| 13 | In fact , as we shall see , employers in the USA — particularly in the manufacturing sector where enterprise-level bargaining and large corporations predominate — have felt less need for association with other employers for negotiating purposes , while in Britain over the past two decades there has been a trend towards the adoption of company-centred industrial relations policies rather than continued adherence to the norms laid down by an association . |
| 14 | Over the past two decades , health , education , and welfare services have started to respond to travellers but social work has tended to lag behind . |
| 15 | Over the past two decades the owners have been generous on pay because their revenues have increased by an average of 12% a year . |
| 16 | In the 1990s the number of people of working age will either fall or grow more slowly than over the past two decades in all the big industrial economies , which should help to reduce dole queues . |
| 17 | Public opinion surveys undertaken by the Prime Minister 's Office have , over the past two decades , shown that 80–90 per cent of Japanese consider themselves to be middle class . |
| 18 | Over the past two decades the management of myocardial infarction has been revolutionised in two ways : the first was the development of DC defibrillation for ventricular fibrillation with the possibility of correcting this condition outside hospital , where the highest incidence exists , and the second major advance has been thrombolytic therapy . |
| 19 | Over the past two decades , however , market theorists , accepting the oligopolistic character of the product markets in which many companies operate , have elaborated theories that locate the company and management within other markets which , they argue , exert a more powerful disciplinary effect . |
| 20 | It is worth adding at this point , in the context of discussion of the cost burden of the elderly , that according to further calculations by David Thomson ( 1987 ) based on Family Expenditure Survey data , the share of national resources going to the elderly has not risen proportionately with their numbers over the past two decades . |
| 21 | The so-called ‘ North-South drift ’ and ‘ urban-rural shift ’ have become particularly important issues over the past two decades , because with the slower rate of national population growth these forms of redistribution lead not only to relative decline but to an absolute fall in population numbers for many of the less dynamic areas . |
| 22 | Over the past two decades a possible increase in the incidence of anal cancer has been noted , especially in American communities known for their high representation of homosexual men . |
| 23 | While the proportion of mentally ill among homeless people has probably not changed greatly over the past two decades , the absolute number has probably doubled in parallel with the number of homeless people . |
| 24 | Over the past two decades the resident population in Scottish mental hospitals fell by 20% but the proportion of residents aged 65 or over rose from 45% in 1970 to 66% by 1988 . |
| 25 | Success in biomedical careers has long been associated with authorship of publications in peer reviewed journals , and this association may partly explain the exponential increase in the number of articles published over the past two decades . |
| 26 | For various reasons including the growth of the elderly population , the fall in the birth rate , the increase in the number of young adults and the rising divorce rate , the long-term trend towards smaller average household size has continued and even accelerated over the past two decades . |
| 27 | What is certain , however , is that these structural and geographical changes in the population have , in combination , produced a profound transformation in the population size and composition of most places in Britain over the past two decades . |
| 28 | As a result , the size of almost all age groups has changed substantially over the past two decades , in marked contrast to the small increase registered by the overall population . |
| 29 | The extent of these learning skills has been ingeniously studied for individual bees by Randolf Menzel in Berlin over the past two decades , and he has been able to clarify the role of many regions of the bee 's head ganglion . |
| 30 | It is important that the purpose of this criticism should not be misunderstood ; the theoretical and experimental contributions that the Aplysia group have made to the cellular study of memory over the past two decades have been substantial , but the very intellectual certainty of the group and the charisma of its leader have tended to suppress some of its problems and sideline those who have articulated them . |