Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [vb pp] in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dick Spelman , general manager of marketing for the Halifax , Britain 's biggest mortgage lender , said the current recession has resulted in the first post-war collapse of house prices . |
| 2 | ‘ This connection is particularly important at the current time when we know the numbers of women on low income has doubled in the last decade . ’ |
| 3 | There are several other systems , regionally important , ethnically , culturally and/or theologically based but none has , as yet , had the pervasive success that capitalism has enjoyed in the twentieth century . |
| 4 | This process has accelerated in the twentieth century and , we argue , reached completion in the twenty years following the Second World War . |
| 5 | The influence of pressure groups in the political process has waned in the last decade , largely because the Conservative Party , and indeed many electors , took against the relationship between the Labour government and the trade unions in the 1970s in which the unions had seemed to exercise excessive influence over the government . |
| 6 | Rainfall in October could reach record levels — more rain has fallen in the first two weeks than usually falls in the entire month . |
| 7 | As modernity has progressed in the last one hundred and fifty years , it is not only the world of work that has become secularised , but also government . |
| 8 | Announcing the decision , Defence Under-Secretary Lord Cranbourne said : " The culture and climate has changed in the last few months … |
| 9 | They 'd probably be better off on the erm soft going tonight , but erm in the past few results erm it 's been evenly balanced Peter , you know , but every trap 's won in the last two or three meetings . |
| 10 | But the poll shows 82 per cent feel moral values have declined and 83 per cent think young people 's behaviour has declined in the last decade . |
| 11 | In the years following the violence of the Mexican revolution , great attention was paid to the content of education , in an attempt to involve the young in the principles of the revolution , but this emphasis has declined in the second half of the century . |
| 12 | I have been depressed about life in the Eighties , the way the economy has gone in the last twelve years . |
| 13 | Air traffic has doubled in the last 10 years so that Singapore is now served by 57 airlines , linking it to 110 cities in 54 countries . |
| 14 | MORE men could be finding it difficult to father children because the average sperm count has halved in the last 50 years , an expert revealed yesterday . |
| 15 | The majority of readers probably regard these features as self-evident , but they may not be aware of the speed with which UK society has changed in the last three decades , or , as we shall see , of the effects on areas which have not shared in the process . |
| 16 | ‘ This means a colossal amount of ozone has disappeared in the last few weeks , ’ Bill Jeffries , New Zealand 's Minister in charge of the Meteorological Service , said yesterday . |
| 17 | The process is two-way ; some users who have used 1981 data want to continue their research with 1991 ; other users start with 1991 and decide they would like to see how the situation has changed in the last ten years . |
| 18 | A national conference in March 1980 , organised by the Women and Housing Group , attracted 200 women , and a women-only housing co-operative has started in the last couple of years to house its members . |
| 19 | The latest CBI/NatWest Innovation Trends Survey shows that after two years of decline , expenditure in support of innovation has increased in the last two years . |
| 20 | Ritchie ( 1985 ) and Whittington and Ritchie ( 1988 ) argue that extensive machair has developed in the last 4000 years and that such a fundamental change in the geography and soils of the west coast would have had great influence on settlement history and patterns in this extreme marginal area . |
| 21 | Any unit of information may of course change status as the discourse proceeds , and what was new in one sentence becomes given in the next , precisely because it has just been said . |
| 22 | Speeches were made by Sir David Miers and Sir Geoffrey Howe , emphasising the cultural debt of Europe to the classical Greek civilisation , and the role that the British School has played in the last 100 years in fostering good links between the United Kingdom and Greece . |
| 23 | As part of our continuing review of quality systems , we are completing an evaluation of the way the new system has worked in the first year . |
| 24 | I would also appreciate a brief summary of the number and size of acquisitions your company has made in the last three years . |
| 25 | ‘ The company has changed in the last four to five years , ’ John said . |
| 26 | Margins and jobs are still shrinking in many industries and corporate debt has doubled in the last five years . |
| 27 | Just how far the market has declined in the last two years can be gauged by the performance of Henry Moore 's ‘ Reclining Figure No. 6 ’ ( lot 89 , est. $50,000–70,000 ) , an important bronze maquette dating from 1954 and closely related to the great elmwood reclining figure of 1959–64 . |
| 28 | The number of babies delivered by Caesarean section has trebled in the last twenty years , according to a book just published . |
| 29 | It will show you how far our technology has advanced in the last few years . |
| 30 | We have seen already how Local Authority power has changed in the last fifteen years , and how as a part of these changes , the Education Committees have become more and more political . |