Example sentences of "[prep] [art] last few years [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the last few years thousands of Goans have gone to work in the Gulf states . |
| 2 | For those of you that do n't know can I remind you that in the last few years one million pounds of capital was spent on Moat Centre alone on the cost together the moment of running Moat Centre for Highfield 's youth is five hundred thousand a year . |
| 3 | In the last few years many policy analysts , professional organizations , charitable bodies and government-funded bodies have made recommendations on how the NHS and local authority structures should be changed in order to develop community care more effectively . |
| 4 | In the last few years these problems have also been intensified by the housing changes described in chapter 7 , namely the accelerated contraction of the private-rented sector , the winding up of New Town Development Corporations and other official overspill schemes , the cutback in Treasury funds for new public-sector house-building in general , and the sale of council houses to tenants with ‘ Right To Buy ’ discounts ( Brittan , 1986 ) . |
| 5 | In the last few years this pattern has ceased as most papers carry these reports and , curiously , the News of the World has nearly stopped . |
| 6 | In the last few years several books have been written solely about carp fishing . |
| 7 | However , over the last few years smaller companies have fared less well , as the impact of the recession has continued longer than expected and this is reflected in our short-term performance . ’ |
| 8 | Over the last few years thousands of parents have been horrified to discover blackened , rotten milk teeth in their children 's mouths . |
| 9 | The structure of this is interesting as over the last few years most software house have added default actions , verbs or options to their interface — Sierra have almost taken the opposite course by simplifying their system which now has a basic choice of some half a dozen actions . |