Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] [adj] years we " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the fact remains that for the last 13 years we have been governed by a party rejected by nearly 60pc of voters . |
| 2 | ‘ For the last few years we have been seriously handicapped by the fact that our second team have been unable to compete regularly against quality opposition . |
| 3 | For the last 60 years we have been organising holidays to Italy , and only to Italy . |
| 4 | For the next 2½ years we spent as much time as we could at the melin . |
| 5 | ‘ It is not as if we will be stuck with lorry traffic for the next three years we will be stuck with it for ever more . |
| 6 | During the last two years we have witnessed many people 's lives in West Belfast getting poorer , nastier , more brutal and arguably shorter due to the introduction of the Social Fund , high interest rates and cuts in the health service . |
| 7 | During the last 13 years we have cut , simplified or abolished a whole range of direct taxes . |
| 8 | We met Stevie Nicks right after that and for about the next four years we were in a band in the northern California area . |
| 9 | Within the next five years we should have moved into new ( larger ? ) premises designed around a more ergonomic layout than the present facilities . |
| 10 | I believe it is quite possible that within the next few years we might see European legislation which will not only follow that of the UK in prohibiting lead fishing weights but also outlaw the use of lead in cartridges . |
| 11 | ‘ In the first two years we will establish 6,000 nursery and after school places and offer staff the chance to choose the hours they work , ’ she said . |
| 12 | In the next ten years we shall be fortunate if we witness as productive a period for text research as that which has just ended . |
| 13 | ‘ In the last 10 years we 've created more jobs than ever before , higher living standards than ever before , better social services than ever before , higher living … |
| 14 | In the last fifteen years we 've been a country where law had little to do with Labour relations . |
| 15 | ‘ In the last four years we have been asked to believe too many coincidences . |
| 16 | In the last few years we have been promised ( and in the UK have never actually been given ) ready-made video programmes on EVR , requiring one set of equipment , and on videodisc , requiring another . |
| 17 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
| 18 | In the last ten years we have seen a fifty percent rise in serious and fatal accidents , at whose expense colleagues ? |
| 19 | Charlton co-manager Alan Curbishley admitted that his side were on a worrying downward trend but pointed out : ‘ In the last three years we have sold players worth more than £4 million and spent only Pounds 450,000 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In the last three years we have been operating a programme of capital grants designed to assist governing bodies and their area associations gain access to facilities suitable for the standard of competition immediately below national level and serving major areas of Scotland . |
| 22 | In the last three years we have opened three brand new laboratories : at Colchester , serving rigid packaging and tubes ; at Bristol , with a new complex for flexible packaging scientists ; and at Muscatine , Iowa , which is our largest plastic tubes plant . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Over the last 8 years we have raised over £34,000 for Christian Aid . |
| 25 | No , because over the last six years we 've actually gone from bottom of the pile to tenth from bottom . |
| 26 | ‘ Over the last five years we have had a quiet revolution in vocational education in Scotland , and today we should celebrate that . |
| 27 | Over the last four years we have consistently moaned , we have passed resolutions at planning , asking committees to consider , and nothing has been done . |
| 28 | ‘ By lowering our costs over the last two years we feel we can now pass some of those savings on to customers . ’ |
| 29 | As Frank Bell pointed out , ‘ Over the last twenty years we have strived to provide a Quality Service . |
| 30 | … Over the last ten years we 've built up a pretty good network . |