Example sentences of "[that] in [art] last [adj] years " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | I am encouraged that in the last few years the number of cyclists I see commuting to and in Edinburgh has increased . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |