Over the past 25 years there have been 24 crocodile attacks with 4 fatalities, including the death of American tourist Lauren Failla.

Over the past 400 years the form of the language used in the Americas — especially in the United States — and that used in the United Kingdom have diverged in a few minor ways, leading to the dialects now occasionally referred to as American English and British English.

Over the past decade, Brazil has firmly established itself as a regional power.

Over the past few decades rapid developments in genomic and other molecular research technologies and developments in information technologies have combined to produce a tremendous amount of information related to molecular biology.

Over the past couple years they have added traits against Corn ear worm, and Root worm.

Over the past decade, there has been a trend towards increasing the independence of central banks as a way of improving long-term economic performance.

Over the past decade, the United States has been a principal provider of humanitarian assistance for famine relief, and has sponsored health care, education, good governance, and security assistance programs.

Over the past 30 years, the population of the Docklands has more than doubled and the area has become both a major business centre and an increasingly desirable area to live.

Over the past two decades, the TU / e has increasingly developed commercial interests and off-campus ties.

Over half of Japanese empresses and many emperors abdicated once a suitable male descendant was considered to be old enough to rule ( just past toddlerhood, in some cases ).

Over the past three decades ECMWF's activities and wide-ranging programme of research and development have played a pioneering role in the remarkable advancement of weather forecasting and data assimilation systems.

Over the past two decades, the economy has shifted from one of agriculture-dominant into that of services-dominant, with tourism serving as the leading foreign currency earning sector.

Over the past several years, tourism and exports of textiles, apparel, and nontraditional agricultural products such as winter vegetables, fruit, and cut flowers have boomed, while more traditional exports such as sugar, bananas, and coffee continue to represent a large share of the export market.

Over the past 800, 000 years, ice core data shows that carbon dioxide has varied from values as low as 180 parts per million ( ppm ) to the pre-industrial level of 270ppm.

Over the past few decades, some scholars have argued for a 7th century BC date.

Over the past decade, open content has been used to develop alternative routes towards higher education.

Over the past year Shannon Elizabeth has participated in numerous other Bodog-sponsored charity events as well.

Over the past 30 years Sinai has become a tourist destination due to its natural setting, rich coral reefs, and biblical history.

Over the past few decades, new information about the revolt has come to light, from the discovery of several collections of letters, some possibly by Bar Kokhba himself, in the Cave of Letters overlooking the Dead Sea.

Over the past 360, 000 years there have been two major cycles, each culminating with two caldera-forming eruptions.

Over the past 100 years, they have lost 93 % of their historic range, and have been extirpated from southwest and central Asia, from the islands of Java and Bali, and from large areas of Southeast and Eastern Asia.

Over the past three decades, UPEI has experienced significant growth with many new buildings integrated into the campus, including Central Utility Building ( 1973 ), Duffy Science Centre, Blanchard Hall ( 1973 ), Bernardine Hall, Robertson Library ( 1975 ), Atlantic Veterinary College ( 1986 ), Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre ( 1990 ), Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall ( 1990 ), Food Technology Centre, K. C.

Over the past 100 years a new technique has emerged — raised bed gardening, which has increased yields from small plots of soil without the need for commercial, energy-intensive fertilizers.

Over the past ten years, the two countries have witnessed new developments in various fields, including politics, economics, culture and society, particularly in the oil and gas industry.

Over the later 20th century this assumption was increasingly challenged.

Over the last half of the 20th century, historical and archaeological research has increasingly supported the theory that the remnants of the Celtic Boii were absorbed into the Roman Empire and later intermingled with other Germanic peoples who chose to stay ( or were stationed by the Romans ) in the area.

This part of New York was in the so-called " Burnt Over District ," which earlier in the 19th century had generated much religious excitement, including the beginnings of Mormonism, and social causes, such as abolitionism and support for the Underground Railroad.

Over the course of the 20th century, Domitian's military, administrative and economic policies were re-evaluated.

Over the course of the 20th century it became increasingly common for first ladies to select specific causes to promote, usually ones that are not politically divisive.

Over the course of the twentieth century, the population of the country grew by a factor of fourteen.

Over the next century, the island was seized several times by the British.

Over the course of the 20th century, the UK gradually implemented tighter regulation of the civilian ownership of firearms through the enactment of the 1968, 1988, 1994 and 1997 Firearms ( Amendment ) Acts < ref >

Over the course of subsequent centuries, the term persisted and developed into its 21st century meaning of " recreational " or " leisurely pursuit ".

Over the next century, half of the estimated 200, 000 Spanish Jews converted to Christianity ( becoming " conversos ").

Over the course of the 18th century, the Authorized Version supplanted the Latin Vulgate as the standard version of scripture for English speaking scholars.

" Over the last century, research on the nature of human mating has generally found this not to be true when it comes to character and personality — people tend to like people similar to themselves.

Over subsequent centuries, the strings were doubled to courses, and eventually ( in Europe ) frets were added, leading to the first lute appearing in the thirteenth century.

Over the next 50 years many Mormons entered into plural marriages as a religious duty, with the number of plural marriages reaching a peak around 1860, and then declining through the rest of the century.

Over the rest of the sixteenth century further protectionist measures were introduced.

Over a century later, in 1645, Horacio Carochi defined macrons to mark long vowels ā, ē, ī and ō, and short vowels with grave (`) accents.

Over the last two millennia, physics was a part of natural philosophy along with chemistry, certain branches of mathematics, and biology, but during the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century, the natural sciences emerged as unique research programs in their own right.

Over the 20th century, with the influence of social constructionism and pragmatism, this tradition began to change.

Over the 19th century, bullet design also evolved, the bullets becoming gradually smaller and lighter.

Over the course of the 19th century that gradually changed: the British and Creoles in the Freetown area increased their involvement in — and their control over — the surrounding territory by engaging in trade, treaty making, and military expeditions.

Over the next century, the region was studied by scientists from a number of countries, including Russia ( geologist Alexander Karpinsky, botanist Porfiry Krylov and zoologist Leonid Sabaneyev ), England ( geologist Sir Roderick Murchison ), France ( paleontologist Edouard de Verneuil ), and Germany ( naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, geologist Alexander Keyserling ).

Over time, the general view in the Jewish community came to be one of acceptance of Moses de Leon's claims, with the Zohar seen as an authentic book of mysticism passed down from the 2nd century.

Over half a century since their last short film was released, the Three Stooges remain wildly popular with audiences.