Example sentences of "[adj] for the last [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the management of CEO Denis Brown , and financially re-structured ( UX No 402 ) , the company has been profitable for the last six quarters and is once again in growth mode , although margins are down and international sales weak . |
| 2 | Lysis , a self-funded company , profitable for the last three years , sells direct in the US and Canada and through resellers in the Pacific Rim and South America . |
| 3 | It 's an , a small number of , of viruses which constantly shift , and the WHO organisation which monitors flu viruses around the world , is responsible for seeing that the vaccine is made from strains that are in circulation currently , and , and we 've been getting it right for the last ten years , so I , I think there 'll be no problem this year . |
| 4 | In fact , the revenue has been stable for the last three years . |
| 5 | She realised that she had only been half alive for the last four years . |
| 6 | And he added : ‘ If I were an American , I would be saying thank goodness there have been some musicals to keep Broadway alive for the last 10 years . ’ |
| 7 | In practice , student occupancy for the last week of the Christmas and Easter terms averages 50 per cent , while that for the last two weeks of the summer term is 33 per cent . |
| 8 | Asked if he had been tempted to quit at any time during the past eight days , he raised a smile and a quip : ‘ I 've felt like that for the last two years ! |
| 9 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 10 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
| 11 | They 've been threatening that for the last fifteen minutes or so . |
| 12 | ‘ At first , I was keen just to get round but having done that for the last three years , I am now seriously looking at winning the race . ’ |
| 13 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 14 | More distressingly , we discovered that the Aru islands and the Greater Bird of Paradise were no longer on their trading routes and that for the last twenty years they had been pursuing the shorter and more profitable triangular passage between Celebes , Java and Borneo . |
| 15 | They forgot that mainframe developers have worked on this for the last 20 years . ’ |
| 16 | Sharon 's father has been unemployed for the last three years . |
| 17 | Obviously it affected me personally because my father 's condition was similar for the last fourteen years of his life . |
| 18 | This is because of the eight-month lag in indexation , which means that the bond is not inflation-protected for the last six months of its life . |
| 19 | So scenario , clients been off sick for the last six months with a back problem . |
| 20 | He has been off sick for the last six weeks and may never return to the job . |
| 21 | I have a part-time job , but I have been off sick for the last two weeks , because I ca n't keep my mind on it . |
| 22 | I have a part-time job , but I have been off sick for the last two weeks , because I ca n't keep my mind on it . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've been financially solvent for the last five years , and the surplus has all been allocated to the new production of The Count of Luxembourg . |
| 24 | She had been married for the last two years , to a man who really was a sewage plant manager ( Slater was quite hurt that Graham thought he 'd invented this detail for the sake of a joke ) . |
| 25 | Of its $6.5 million annual budget , the CAM gets less than $175,000 from city and state government , yet has managed to operate in the black for the last nine years . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's amazing how many people who , when you catch them with their trousers down and take a formal sample , will say , ‘ It 's been beautiful for the last two years and just this , just yesterday that this thing went wrong and your chap happened to come . ’ |
| 27 | Mead was blind for the last ten years of his life , but his interest endured in the game to which he had brought such commitment and talent . |
| 28 | Mr Buller said the company had appeared to trade while insolvent for the last 18 months . |
| 29 | All through these years took part in every one for the last fifty years . |
| 30 | With the rulers of the eastern Saxons possibly free of subjection to Aethelred for the last ten years or more , their presence in Kent suggests a revival of eastern Saxon power and implies at the very least that Aethelred needed their assistance . |