Example sentences of "time in [art] past [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pipe has won the Chepstow race three times in the past four years and his possible squad for this year 's renewal on December 28 is Bonanza Boy ( winner in 1988 and 1989 ) , Run For Free , Rushing Wild , Miinnehoma , Chatam and Cushinstown . |
| 2 | This is due in part to the fact that President Ibrahim Babangida has already postponed the promised handover to civilian government three times in the past three years . |
| 3 | The Italian Team has won nine times in the past ten years , but this year the British Army Team ran them a very close second . |
| 4 | The Lorenz equations , named after Ed Lorenz who first introduced them as a model of a two-dimensional convection { 21 } , have been important for a number of different reasons at various times in the past 20 years or so . |
| 5 | As someone who has been admitted into psychiatric care 16 times in the past 25 years and has usually received acute care in asylum style settings , I shed few tears for the disappearance of these places . |
| 6 | ‘ This is n't the first time in the past two years he 's stalked out of our house in a jealous rage , swearing that this time our relationship is over for good . ’ |
| 7 | The Burscough boss believes he can put his finger on why his side can consistently beat opposition from higher leagues , as they have done time after time in the past two years , yet struggle at their own level . |
| 8 | MORE Israelis now favour ceding occupied Arab lands and the formation of an independent Palestinian state than at any other time in the past six years , according to an opinion poll published yesterday . |
| 9 | Not much enlightenment there ; the same reply could have been given at any time in the past four years . |
| 10 | Freed from restrictions about who to lend to or how much to pay to depositors , and freed from the responsibility of supporting their corporate clients through thin times , American and British commercial banks are weaker than at any time in the past 50 years . |
| 11 | CAPRICORN — VERY few Capricorns have had a whale of a time in the past few years . |
| 12 | Greece has suffered more forest fires this summer than at any time in the past 40 years . |
| 13 | Tony Blair , Labour 's Employment Secretary , is said to be privately impressed that fewer days are now lost to strikes than at any time in the past 60 years . |
| 14 | The company is now looking at a future that is brighter than for any time in the past 20 years . |