Example sentences of "[prep] the last decade " in BNC.
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1 | Resident in Holland for the last decade , Julyen Hamilton is a dancer and teacher who 's studied and developed improvisation and set dance derives much of its inspiration from Jazz . |
2 | The Exhibition Committee had advertised the event more widely to the general canoeing public than for the last decade . |
3 | For the last decade has been one in which short-term cost-cutting has been seen as the answer to any commercial or governmental problem . |
4 | They have both carried the burden of bearing the brunt for Britain in international competition for the last decade and more . |
5 | Where has she been for the last decade ? |
6 | And remember , they are all products of Pakistan 's domestic cricket competitions , which are competed for by the commercial organisations and regional teams which have always been condemned by Imran — who for the last decade had not played domestic cricket in Pakistan . |
7 | For the last decade , such accolades have been heard more rarely since Mr Swinton chose a hermit 's life in the West Country and no paintings of his have come before the Selection Committee at the Royal Academy since he left London . |
8 | For the last decade , about one patient a year was referred to our department with a total bile duct transection after open cholecystectomy . |
9 | Thus for the last decade the report envisages that 25 per cent of new building should be for replacement ; at such a rate the demand for greenfield sites might fall . |
10 | We do n't really know a lot about how much sediment load they 've been carrying because we have been measuring the amount of material being carried by Sussex rivers for the last decade to two decades , so our level of information is very , very low . |
11 | The riverside warehouses of the London docklands have become favourite subjects for this treatment during the last decade and an outstanding conversion of one such building — Thames Tunnel Mills — is described in this chapter , while the final chapter of the book contains an analysis of a similar building that has been converted to house a range of new uses , including sixty apartments . |
12 | The bronze statue of Boadicea , in her chariot , which can be seen on the Thames Embankment at Westminster Bridge , is the work of Hamo Thornycroft , R.A. , who had a studio in Holland Park , but it proved too small , so he removed it to the ‘ tin tabernacle ’ which Sir John Isaac Thornycroft , F.R.S. , had built as a workshop in the gardens of Walpole House on Chiswick Mall , during the last decade of the nineteenth century . |
13 | However , the article goes on , during the last decade , a United Nations Organization programme has been coordinating the work of environmentalists to halt the scale of pollution , although political will by individual governments is also essential if the fragile ecosystem is to be preserved . |
14 | Such parties are becoming rare , and the winter population has probably declined during the last decade . |
15 | Although there have been many useful publications in the field of special educational needs during the last decade , the distinguishing feature of the present series of volumes lies in their concern with specific areas of the curriculum in primary and secondary schools . |
16 | During the last decade or so , however , an interest in and recognition of the importance of religion in society has re-emerged . |
17 | During the last decade or so cephalaspids have been re-examined in great detail . |
18 | Until the South African mines were opened up during the last decade of the nineteenth century , diamonds were obtained exclusively from alluvial deposits , often those which also produced gold . |
19 | During the last decade or so a wide range of what were once considered to be mundane or esoteric problems concerning the English countryside have been thrust to the forefront of public attention by the apparently sudden and widespread increase in anxiety about ‘ the environment ’ . |
20 | A similar picture emerges from a comparison of the salaries of men and women in non-manual occupations — the slight narrowing of the gap taking place during the last decade . |
21 | His work represents the Parisian street and night life during the last decade of the 19th century . |
22 | Some corners missed part of it altogether , none more so than Low Birk Hatt Even during the last decade before the dawn of the twenty-first century , the prospect of water on tap there was still problematical . |
23 | The DMS itself , as the major vehicle of such provision , has been the subject of much debate during the last decade , principally about its nature and content . |
24 | GRIST also seems to have worsened what has been an increasing difficulty in arts professional development programmes during the last decade . |
25 | An able and strong-minded intendant could enjoy during the last decade of the ancien régime a remarkable degree of autonomy and independent initiative . |
26 | The percentage of young people staying on in full-time education after the legal minimum leaving age has increased during the last decade , as Figure 12.1 shows . |
27 | One of the most important innovations in macroeconomic modelling during the last decade has been the development of continuous time econometric models . |
28 | During the last decade , there has been much research on the effect on economic performance in Western industrialised countries of the structure of and the relations between the main economic institutions . |
29 | This research explores the effects of economic recession and changes in management practices , particularly during the last decade , on Bournville and Northfield . |
30 | During the last decade , the international trade in conventional weapons has almost doubled in volume every five years . |