Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [art] last twenty " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of babies delivered by Caesarean section has trebled in the last twenty years , according to a book just published . |
| 2 | The proportion of jobs with pension schemes has grown in the last twenty years , with the result that the ‘ young ’ elderly have a greater chance of benefiting from them than the older elderly . |
| 3 | ‘ You only have to look around , ’ he explained , ‘ and see that something has happened in the last twenty years . ’ |
| 4 | Ask a bookdealer how his trade has changed over the last twenty years , and you 'll get an answer worthy of a merchant banker : volumes have multiplied ( hardly surprising : there have been as many books published since 1960 as in all the previous history of publishing ) , margins have been squeezed ; competition has grown fiercer , and specialisation finer ; women and Japanese have become crucial forces with which to reckon . |
| 5 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |
| 6 | It demonstrates what appears to have been a major weakness of the UK economy , namely that the UK has required over the last twenty years a higher rate of gross investment to produce a given increase in output , than did West Germany , France , Japan , the USA or Canada . |
| 7 | What seems to have happened over the last twenty years or so is that a higher proportion of juveniles are being dealt with officially by the police rather than being dealt with unofficially or warned . |
| 8 | Several foreign ships had arrived within the last twenty four hours . |
| 9 | Two million have enrolled in the last twenty one years . |
| 10 | Many important changes in the structure of the economy have occurred over the last twenty years . |
| 11 | Only five naked-eye novæ have appeared during the last twenty years , and there have not been many more within binocular range . |