Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] last few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The estate and the businesses in Bradford have been allowed to run down during the last few years , while my father was not well . |
| 2 | For many years the only Medau teacher in those parts , she has been particularly concerned , especially during the last few years , with classes for the elderly and handicapped , and has been a pioneer in getting Medau accepted as a suitable retraining system for stroke victims . |
| 3 | I think we all feel we would like more central capital funding , but without it , it 's quite proper that we make er the best of use of the , of the assets we 've got , and we were n't using all our estate as effectively as we might , so for the last few years , we 've had a very vigorous programme of identifying land and buildings that are no longer required , and putting them on the market and thereby enabling us to build new facilities . |
| 4 | Only within the last few years have doctors begun to realize that this microbe can cause disease . |
| 5 | It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre . |
| 6 | Although the pied flycatcher 's adultery has been known about since 1950 , it is only in the last few years that the scientist Rauno Alatalo and his colleagues , studying pied flycatchers in Sweden , have begun to unravel the finer details . |
| 7 | Its origins are disguised by its huge cob , and only in the last few years has genetic analysis teased out the whole truth about its humble cereal ancestry . |
| 8 | And I mean there has been up until fairly recently , it 's only in the last few years that relations have tended to get a bit better . |
| 9 | Only in the last few years have real efforts been made to equalize provision for different groups of the disabled and there is still a long way to go before we can claim to have adequate social security in this area . |
| 10 | It is only in the last few years , then , that new IT , mainly in the form of the microcomputer , has started to play a part in formal education . |
| 11 | He was a fan of the BCR though he came to know it only in the last few years of its life . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This is our first effort at a full newsletter and we now really appreciate how much effort Lynn has put in over the last few years . |
| 14 | What we 've been through in the last few years has brought us a lot closer , and that 's part of the reason I 'm getting out of the rat race of international cricket … certainly for a few years , anyway . |
| 15 | What was erm how , how badly was the south by affected by the Japanese , I mean what were the peasants likely to have gone through in the last few years ? |
| 16 | However , given the developments both in the United Kingdom and elsewhere over the last few years , it is now unlikely that this course will be taken . |
| 17 | More and more over the last few years , however , findings both from his own lab and others have tended to enrich the somewhat simplistic reductionist framework within which the Aplysia findings had earlier been set . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 20 | But , I , physically I ca n't do it , I , I 've aged up in the last few years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The operation is one of hundreds that have been carried out in the last few years by keyhole surgery . |
| 23 | It is important to stress that the method of control has in fact changed quite substantially over the last few years . |
| 24 | The Dorset , Devon and Cornwall holiday areas benefited from the good summer weather and from the upgrading of pubs carried out over the last few years . |
| 25 | This aspect of the work has been phased out over the last few years as the UK content in most projects has risen to more than 70 per cent , leaving OSO to concentrate on its other roles in encouraging research and development into new offshore technology and using UK expertise to gain export orders on the back of North Sea achievements . |
| 26 | And also I think we should record our admiration at how she has coped really over the last few years |
| 27 | These are the things that we have both missed out on over the last few years , both of us working at all times . ’ |
| 28 | Okay finally , a third m major er class of ion channel i which has been extensively worked on over the last few years , since the advent of patch clamping er has been second messenger gated channels , so-called second messenger gated channels . |
| 29 | I think things have changed quite dramatically in the last few years certainly , we admit very few people and we see them mostly as an outpatient . |
| 30 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |