Example sentences of "[prep] [art] last few years and " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time .
2 Cornwall has kept the Championship flag flying for the last few years and has continued to emphasise my own view that such a competition could have an important place .
3 Such an event normally takes us to Dartmoor or Exmoor , has run on the same basis for the last few years and is planned to the last minute — so why the meeting ?
4 Maureen has n't worked for the last few years and she 's ill herself , she 's got hepatitis B.
5 By that date , he was an ailing man , and apart from his routine duties , his first tasks were to clear up the muddles of the last few years and re-establish an acceptable procedure for future episcopal elections , investitures , and acts of homage .
6 ‘ The industry has cleaned up its act in the last few years and we import from restricted countries , ’ said the timber merchant .
7 The yacht harbour , Muelle Deportivo , has seen many improvements in the last few years and even more are planned for the future under the dynamic president of the port , José Manuel Hernandez .
8 But they have changed in the last few years and there are some quite significant elements about personal allowances that you ought to know about , one of which is independent taxation , and this talk is actually personal allowances and independent taxation .
9 Imaging technology has come a long way in the last few years and there are currently available several Imaging systems which in theory could integrate with Council Tax software .
10 But in Latin America , even the crudest indicators such as per capita GNP , or gross national product ( which takes no account of wealth distribution ) show that people 's incomes have actually gone down in the last few years and their health , education and nutrition have gone down with them .
11 The project is following up those young people who have left the Association 's training schemes in the last few years and is investigating , through questionnaires and interviews , how the employers of those ex-trainees make their recruitment decisions .
12 I 've heard hundreds of judges in the last few years and Mr is one of the very few who , in , in every picture delivers a very picture .
13 There was a period when cyclists disappeared from the Meet altogether but they have started to return in the last few years and among the highlights of this year 's event — May 22–25 — will be a return to races on the old grass cycle track around the perimeter of Richmond Cricket Club 's ground and a road race for penny-farthings .
14 In some areas the precise details of the ban coverage has changed over the last few years and climber are requested to check that they re aware of these updates .
15 Unit-linked policies by and large have performed fairly well over the last few years and have consequently been growing in popularity .
16 What what the government , what the erm the consortium and paper 's about er , is improving the , the identification band that was hanging over of of health care , once that recipe is will get much larger consortium er , it 's much widespread of er , devotion , expertise er , er professionalism in in assessing health needs er think about one of those areas that have been saved from in West Essex over the last over the last few years and by going into a much larger group with more resources erm , there will , they will be able to actually er work er far , far more effectively in sorting out what 's actually needed .
17 Voting rights in local elections for nationals of all Community Member States , wider powers for the Court of Auditors , clearer duties on Member States to fight fraud against the Community budget and progress towards a single currency are all examples of matters supported by the Select Committee over the last few years and now set out in the Maastricht Treaty .
18 Employee relations manager George Piechniczek said : ‘ This sensitive issue has been extensively debated over the last few years and whilst the trade unions support the principle of protecting non-smokers at work , it has proved difficult to find a practical solution that satisfied all parties . ’
19 Turning to the specific task on hand , he commended the gas turbine division as a whole for the great strides it had made over the last few years and stressed the important role that LTS had played in the division 's growth .
20 THERE 'S been a revolution in media over the last few years and it 's going to continue at an ever-increasing pace for sometime to come .
21 Ergo , we have to look , I think , at the record of this company over the last few years and as the chairman said in his introductory remarks the growth in the company , the growth in the earnings per share , has been very remarkable .
22 Er the unemployment rate while still relatively in relation to national and even er regional levels , has increased very rapidly over the last few years and in fact over the last two or three years we 've had something like three thousand jobs lost i in Harrogate .
23 The buzzard population in the province has been growing over the last few years and is believed to currently stand at 650 .
24 ‘ A lot of shareholders have turned down generous takeover bids over the last few years and have regretted it , ’ he said .
25 erm he is a member of Vanroch Caerphilly at URC and has done I think he is currently at and erm have felt a gentle call emerging over the last few years and erm all started in Cambridge , that 's about it , that 's all I can say .
26 we have extremely good erm figure on a reduction in accident over the last few years and I 'd like to erm , I 'd like Councillor to erm to prevail our thanks to the road safety officers
27 There 's been something like twenty per cent cut over the last few years and erm some faculty members have taken early retirement and left , so a lot of subjects have lost some of their most able people .
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