Example sentences of "in [art] past [adj] years [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past two years Mars bars were the official snack at the World Cup in Italy , the World Athletics Championship in Tokyo as well as the Barcelona Olympics . |
| 2 | In the past 10 years Canadians have doubled the amount of money borrowed from banks to pay for consumer goods . |
| 3 | When my hon. Friend returns to his desk after the next election has been won by the Conservatives , will he bear it in mind that in the past 10 years west Lancashire has benefited greatly from being a development area ? |
| 4 | The hon. Lady should know that in the past 10 years exports of British manufactured goods have grown faster than those of France , Germany , America and even Japan , because manufacturing is doing so much better and needs our policies . |
| 5 | In the past five years BT has replaced some 47,000 of them by glass kiosks which are supposed to provide ‘ better lighting ’ and a ‘ smell-free environment ’ . |
| 6 | Miti also claimed that in the past five years Japan 's imports from its 10 largest trading partners had increased by 96 per cent , while exports had risen by only 45 per cent . |
| 7 | It is reported ( EP , 28 December 1987 ) that in the past five years Slovenia has taken full advantage of this arrangement . |
| 8 | It had seemed to him , about halfway through his investigation , that in the past five years Jean-Paul had done one thing , and one thing only . |
| 9 | In the past few years interferometers have displaced scanning spectrophotometers in many applications . |
| 10 | In the past few years Broderick has been faced with a similar , if less epic problem : simply how to grow up on screen , how to graduate from the early ‘ smart kid ’ roles in War Games and Ferris Bueller 's Day Off which have so far intended to resort to a tour of duty in a Vietnam movie or wearing a false moustache in a cop drama to prove their ‘ maturity ’ as actors . |
| 11 | In the past three years subject has been associated with at least two men other than her husband in circumstances giving rise to a strong presumption that the relationships were of a sexual nature … |
| 12 | Almost single handedly in the past three years Jones has made high technology and the ‘ sunrise ’ industries household words and created a climate of industrial and community awareness . |
| 13 | Recent refinements to production techniques have made tonyu palatable , and in the past three years sales have soared . |
| 14 | In the past 15 years Denison 's work has had a direct influence on the conservation movement in the North of England . |
| 15 | In the past seven years Mr Ratner has gobbled up rival retailers , including H. Samuel and Watches of Switzerland ( which must be wincing at the boss 's cheap-and-cheerfulness ) . |
| 16 | In the expansion of academic legal scholarship that has taken place in the past 20 years family law was one of the first of the traditional areas of study to be ‘ broadened ’ . |
| 17 | Having said that , we would agree that in the past 25 years Oxford has tended to do better than Cambridge on several fronts . |