Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adv] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the coastline has altered drastically in the last 10,000 years . |
| 2 | The island of Puerto Rico has altered substantially in the last 40 years . |
| 3 | Now , as John Bowker has pointed out in the first article in this series , ‘ to say that God is not affected by His creatures is not to say that He takes no interest in them ’ , nor that , seen from our viewpoint as creatures in time and space , God can not do one thing at one moment and something apparently quite different the next . |
| 4 | I am pleased to say that unemployment in all these areas has fallen dramatically in the last 12 months-by 21 per cent . |
| 5 | This probably explains why menarche the age of which er menstruation begins menarche er why the age of menarche has dropped progressively in the last century from about fifteen and a half to about twelve and a half er today . |
| 6 | When it comes to clothes and the British high street , I think the standard has dropped radically in the last five years . |
| 7 | This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years . |
| 8 | Swindon has grown economically in the last 15 years and the unemployment level was down to a record low 2 to 3 years ago . |
| 9 | As we have seen , the number of full-time teachers engaged in further education has grown enormously in the last thirty years , from just over 4,500 in 1946–7 to about 80,000 in 1980 . |
| 10 | The diversity of the International region , which sells 75 brands in 108 markets , is well illustrated by its performance in smaller markets such as Turkey , where the market for Scotch whisky has grown three-fold in the last ten years.Johnnie Walker Red Label has maintained its major market share and is well placed to capitalise on the growth of one of the fastest developing economies in the region . |
| 11 | But after being pulled off at Crystal Palace in midweek , he has suffered both in the last four days . |
| 12 | She has suffered much in the last decade but that experience has given her the inner fortitude to shoulder the emotional burden she must carry on the next stage of her life 's journey . |
| 13 | This smaller and shyer animal once ranged from the Spanish Sierra Nevada to the Urals , but has suffered greatly in the last century from hunting and the disturbance of agricultural development . |
| 14 | Their calibre , though , is impossible to deny : listen to the last half of Divine Madness and you 'll hear the most consistently pugnacious and provocative music British pop has turned up in the last 15 years . |
| 15 | This is an area which has expanded enormously in the last twenty years , and there are now a large number of independent schools ( of varying degrees of professionalism and quality ) , as well as state sector Colleges of F.E. and H.E . |
| 16 | Research into the form and content of user interfaces for GIS has accelerated rapidly in the last couple of years . |
| 17 | The company has done well in the last year so Mr Jones decides to give himself a 15% rise , the supervisory staff a 10% rise and the non-supervisory staff a 5% rise . |
| 18 | In northeastern China , Leeming ( 1985 ) reports that in the vicinity of the Great Wall in Shaanxi Province the desert margin has advanced markedly in the last 150 years so that sand now extends 70 km south of the Great Wall , and in the nearby Yulin area grazing land and arable fields have been engulfed . |
| 19 | The region has a long history of human activity ( section 3.2.1 ) , and although erosion has always been a problem it has intensified considerably in the last 100 years as deforestation has accelerated and grasslands have been degraded . |
| 20 | This rate has dipped significantly in the last two years reflecting the shift in priorities of the government 's cultural policy . |
| 21 | The UK evidence ( Labour Research Department , 1987 ) confirms the view that outward investment by home-based manufacturing concerns has concentrated not in the Third World but in North America and western Europe ( rather than the Commonwealth ) ; it is the wish to have a stake in economies that are growing more rapidly than the UK which is the key factor in company decision-making . |
| 22 | The advertising agency as we know it has emerged only in the last fifty years and it will continue to evolve as communication technology changes and mass communication becomes even more sophisticated . |
| 23 | The scale and pace of these losses appears to be unprecedented ; it has increased markedly in the last decade . |
| 24 | However the quantity of remainders has increased greatly in the last decade , and titles are also being remaindered increasingly quickly to save on overheads ( even to the extent of remainder prices being agreed with dealers before publication ) . |
| 25 | Age at first marriage has increased rapidly in the last two decades . |
| 26 | While the quality of play , and competition , at the top end of the women 's game has increased superbly in the last few years , the drop off after the first half dozen or so , is still equally evident . |
| 27 | Such a change would set the final seal on what is perhaps the most radical transformation Japan has gone through in the last few decades : the disappearance of the farming community as a fundamental axis of politics , the economy and society and the emergence of Japan as a fully-fledged urban , industrial society . |
| 28 | An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time . |
| 29 | It is surprising how much this has widened out in the last twelve months , to be honest . |
| 30 | Similar work on the sources of the instrumental , particularly keyboard , works has begun only in the last decade or so , and is now bearing fruit in a far clearer understanding of Bach 's thoughts and intentions . |