Example sentences of "[conj] for the [adj] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now the solar influence is beginning to turn around to contribute a further warming influence up to the year 2010 , boosting the greenhouse effect where for the past 30 years it has been counterbalancing it . |
| 2 | It had been a shock to discover that for the first five years they went to homes in the country where women were paid to nurse them , and it seemed to put a stop to any hope of seeing Angel again . |
| 3 | He rang me the next day , was very enthusiastic , but apologised that for the following two years he was only doing German opera — but that he would remember me ! |
| 4 | It was agreed that for the 1908–09 financial year , which began in July , the wage bill for eight or nine staff should not exceed £500 in total , ( an average of less than £1 each per week ) . |
| 5 | He explained that for the last two years the unit has been funded with money from the Department of Education and Science channelled through Durham County Council . |
| 6 | But the fact remains that for the last 13 years we have been governed by a party rejected by nearly 60pc of voters . |
| 7 | For example , Bradley et al. ( 1987a ) have suggested that for the last 30–40 years there has been a general decrease in precipitation in low-latitudes of the northern hemisphere which are in accord with General Circulation Model ( GCM ) predictions based on doubled carbon dioxide levels . |
| 8 | Data Connection Ltd , the Enfield , Middlesex-based UK software house that for the last ten years has provided some of the technical bedrock for the big OEMs , is now making its Unix/SNA connectivity software available to large end-users . |
| 9 | In response , the guardians pointed out that for the previous thirty-four years the infirmary had received patients suffering from the same class of disease as William Joseph C. from the workhouse , in accordance with the arrangement whereby the guardians were currently paying £202 per annum to the infirmary . |
| 10 | The one that for the past five years has brought us into crisis , anarchy , and economic decay ? " |
| 11 | Prof Sargent said that for the past five years , Croda Universal — the British company which has produced the oil — had funded research on ALD at the university . |
| 12 | It just so happens that for the past sixty years it has been . |
| 13 | There have been doubts about the bank 's central aim of fostering the entrepreneurial spirit in countries that for the past 40 years , or longer , have been dominated by communism . |
| 14 | In the Balkans it meant that for the next few years Bulgaria under Stambouloff would look to Austria-Hungary ( and even , a little , to Turkey ) , for fear of Russia . |
| 15 | United States unemployment is higher than for the past five years . |
| 16 | ‘ I think the public will be better protected if for the next two years and possibly afterwards you are on a regime of medication which will ensure you do n't do anything like this again , ’ he said . |
| 17 | He was cared for by his mother , who survived him , and for the remaining thirty years of his life roamed the neighbourhood aimlessly , he and his theory totally forgotten . |
| 18 | And for the second successive year , the St Helens based group is forced to cut its dividend . |
| 19 | It was as if all that we had done … had been a school and a preparation both for that first day in which I suddenly knew how to make one-step dry photographic process and for the following three years in which we made the very vivid dream into a solid reality . |
| 20 | Most lived alone in isolated outposts with the nearest countryman a day or two of travel away , and for the first hundred years there was no telegraph or railroad . |
| 21 | And for the first five years of my life , I just led a very lonely life with only the my grandmother and my parents and the farm men . |
| 22 | In the immediate neighbourhood of The Milebrook were few families except for the local farmers , and for the first four years there we had no transport other than bicycles and a pony cart . |
| 23 | Special educational needs was always a much more prominent aspect of the work of Phase 1 coordinators than of those in Phases 2 or 3 , and for the first three years of PNP SEN was the dominant coordinator task in Phase 1 . |
| 24 | With Lindsey 's Corsair being the only one of its type in Europe , airshow organisers had to approach him if they wanted a Corsair in their flying display , and for the first few years John Allison and Lindsey flew all over Europe with the aircraft . |
| 25 | For many years , both in the days of glassfibre and for the first few years of plastic , there was little variety in the shape of boats in general recreational use . |
| 26 | profit or loss of the undertaking acquired for the period from the beginning of the financial year up to the date of the acquisition and for the previous financial year . |
| 27 | The new Headmaster was Mr. Christopher Herman Gilkes , an Oxford graduate and for the previous six years a Housemaster at Uppingham . |
| 28 | The words ’ public service ’ are , and for the past 13 years have been , anathema to Conservative Members . |
| 29 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 30 | And for the past two years he has been holed up in London . |