Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] during the last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not surprising , therefore , that incomes have dropped severely during the last few years , with the result that we are now beginning to see signs of dereliction . |
| 2 | Although The Art Newspaper has written extensively during the last few months about the problems the international art trade will be facing in just over half a year from now , I nevertheless want to bring to your attention some other serious difficulties which the art market will have to confront , issues which are quite separate from the general economic malaise affecting business at the moment . |
| 3 | Yonder , the town , had grown enormously during the last twenty years . |
| 4 | A. The number of people in the larger cities has been growing rapidly during the last 50 years . |
| 5 | Work on the drift deposits of the Livingston and Falkirk areas in central Scotland indicate that sea-levels have risen and fallen repeatedly during the last 13 000 years . |
| 6 | The distribution of raised marine sediments and associated well-marked shorelines reveal that sea-levels have risen and fallen repeatedly during the last 13 000 years . |
| 7 | Again there was a trend to increasing size , and they ultimately became the predominant land animal , expanding territorially during the last 70 million years of Paleozoic history and preying on the abundance of insects . |
| 8 | Several young adults hatched there during the last two breeding seasons live there as well . |
| 9 | The level of owner occupation in Britain has increased rapidly during the last 30 years to the point where nearly two out of every three households either own or are buying their own home . |
| 10 | the rate of change in society has increased dramatically during the last two centuries . |
| 11 | Many farmers even in DRAs are wealthy on paper simply because land prices have increased dramatically during the last thirty years . |
| 12 | The number of designated clean air zones has increased steadily during the last 25 years , and Table 15–1 shows the dramatic reduction in smoke pollution in the UK . |
| 13 | If one of the wardens should die during his term of office , and this has happened twice during the last twenty years , another of the names will be drawn out . |
| 14 | Agricultural policy which involves paying the highest prices for the fattest lamb and cattle has changed little during the last 10 years . |
| 15 | Eating habits in the West have changed dramatically during the last ten to twenty years . |