Example sentences of "[conj] in [art] last [adj] years " in BNC.
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1 | Rather than will you attend Convention 1993 what about Which conventions have you attending since joining or in the last ten years 1983 [ ] 1984[] 1985[] 1986[] etc etc |
2 | He said that in the last two years he had met very few institutions which had not cut back their system budgets following the 1987 crash in share prices in the stock market . |
3 | I 'm proud that in the last two years under my administration we have not had one compulsory redundancy , and it 's not easy I can assure you . |
4 | He should recall that in the last two years of the last Labour Government , up to 5,000 police men and women were leaving the police force each year and voting with their feet . |
5 | But it is certainly true that in the last sixty years the various schools and academies of acting have had a significant effect on the climate of acting . |
6 | It means that in the last four years , the building cost average has jumped by almost 20 points , while the tender average has stayed virtually the same . |
7 | Previous work funded by the ESRC at the Institute of Education showed that in the last five years screening techniques have been used increasingly to identify children for special educational provision . |
8 | A Parliamentary Commission , presided over by Christian Democrat Giorgio Santz has been investigating how the preceding laws have worked and has now come up with its report which shows that in the last eight years , of the L1,500 billion allocated to Venice only L853 billion ( £394.3 million ; $686 million ) have actually been spent . |
9 | It is interesting that in the last hundred years , periods of relatively stable prices were periods when the British government did not have discretionary control over money supply growth — namely the pre-First World War gold standard and the Bretton Woods System — whereas periods of inflation and deflation have occurred when the system is anchorless . |
10 | Indeed , we always try to give the benefit of the doubt , and the hon. Gentleman may be interested to know that in the last three years we have received 577 claims and have settled 372 of them . |
11 | All factual evidence indicates , for instance , that in the last 20 years , Americans ' health has improved at unprecedented speed — whether measured by mortality rates for the newborn , survival rates for the very old , the incidence of cancers ( other than lung cancer ) , cancer cure rates , or other factors . |
12 | I am encouraged that in the last few years the number of cyclists I see commuting to and in Edinburgh has increased . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | I will have more to say about family life in the next chapter , here I note merely that in the last twenty years we have seen the large-scale establishment of the single-parent family , the so-called serial-monogamy syndrome ( divorced people keep getting remarried ) and an endless chain of step-children and step/half brothers and sisters . |
15 | And in the last hundred years you 've done nothing but rob , fight , and murder ! |
16 | It was what one did with wealth that counted , and in the last 10 years voluntary giving had doubled . |
17 | There were 4,000 reports to the National Criminal Intelligence Service last year and in the last five years over £500,000 in cash has been seized . |
18 | And in the last five years he 's too old to do it . |
19 | And in the last two years only three children under 14 have had to be placed in secure accommodation . |
20 | And in the last two years many up-and-coming bands have played at Darlington wine bars Perry 's and Harvey 's . |
21 | And in the last four years about one hundred local firms have been given help . |
22 | The Pakistan government is hampered by lack of resources in launching any large-scale projects , and in the last 13 years less than $120 million has been ploughed into crop substitution programmes by foreign aid organisations . |
23 | Meanwhile , Bristol , Liverpool and Glasgow ( qq.v. ) had grown to give London plenty of competition , and in the last forty years Rotterdam has overtaken London in the annual tonnage it handles . |
24 | Languages and their histories are invaluable resources for feminists analysing the workings of patriarchal societies , and in the last twenty years feminists have drawn our attention to the sexist implications of usage in many languages . |
25 | What is there to say er what 's not been said already yesterday , today , last year 's meetings and in the last ten years . |
26 | Both men are Christians , and in the last few years a number of other Christian writers have followed in their footsteps ( Hunter 1983 ; Guinness 1983 ; Williamson , Parotta et al 1983 ; Kolakowski 1986 ) . |
27 | It seems to me that we 're stronger fighting that together than apart and in the last few years a growing number of successful campaigns have strengthened this belief . |
28 | But the trend is towards taking the bitterness and confrontation out of divorce , and in the last few years there has been a growth in the number of ‘ mediation ’ and ‘ conciliation ’ ( not to be confused with reconciliation ) services available . |
29 | Thirdly , he was a politician and in the last 20 years of his life , he gave 3 political speeches a week in different parts of the country and wrote a number of books on the train going from one speaking engagement to another to avoid wasting time . |
30 | John Evans has covered cricket , football , rugby , tennis , swimming and many other sporting events in the past , but in the last five years has tended to concentrate on athletics . |