Example sentences of "[noun sg] in the [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a non-randomised study in Ipswich among a group of 209 diabetics discharged to general practitioner care with agreed standards of medical follow up only 25% of patients had had their urine tested or blood glucose value estimated by their general practitioner in the previous two years . |
| 2 | Young , a Croft Inns catering manager and Les Simms , a BBC engineer , have each won the world championship for honey making for their Dromore Beekeepers Club in the past two years . |
| 3 | By spending more resources on this matter , as I intend to do , having tripled our programme in the past 10 years , I believe that we shall make still further progress , with the help of education , too . |
| 4 | Without the resources of the Oxford department in the following three years , Florey would probably not have been able to bring penicillin to clinical fruition . |
| 5 | My research in the following few years was to lead me first to Rennes-le-Chateau to check Wood 's discovery and then to Wiltshire 's Marlborough Downs , which have since also become home to the world 's corn circle phenomenon . |
| 6 | In 1576 Simon Bowyer , gentleman usher to Queen Elizabeth , was granted a licence to buy and sell 500 sarplers of wool in the following ten years ; and in 1590 he received a commission to act as sole informer against those who infringed certain statutes controlling the wool trade . |
| 7 | For example , the attempt in the past thirty years to incorporate more divergent factors changes the emphasis towards inductive and creative abilities . |
| 8 | The two issues at the heart of the disagreement are those which have killed at birth any attempt in the past dozen years to address the Palestinian question : Who speaks for the Palestinians and what are the limits of the Palestinian problem ? |
| 9 | Does not that answer confirm that the increase in crime in the past 12 years has been greater both in proportion and in number than the increase in crime over the previous 12 centuries ? |
| 10 | If a holding company can not immediately recover ACT against its own corporation tax liabilities , it should consider making use of its subsidiaries ' ACT capacity ( ie tax liabilities available for offset in the previous six years ) . |
| 11 | Twenty-five thousand men had left the industry in the past two years . |
| 12 | What shame on the Tories who have brought about the collapse of this key industry in the past 13 years . |
| 13 | The New Criticism began , as 1 said , with the work of Richards and Eliot ; more exactly one can say that it began with the publication in 1924 of Richards 's Principles of Literary Criticism , a radical , polemical programme for the study of literature that has had an enormous impact on British criticism and scholarship in the past fifty years . |
| 14 | In this instance , a second Bill has had to be presented , and most people in the education system have found themselves in a mess in the intervening three years . |
| 15 | More than a tenth of the world 's soils have lost a substantial amount of their natural fertiliser in the past 45 years , according to the first results of a 15-year Global Assessment of Soil Degradation , funded by the UN Environment Programme . |
| 16 | The Philips Report ( HMSO 1954 ) forecast little change in the dependency ratio overall in the following twenty-five years ( 1954–79 ) , on the assumption that the same proportion of persons would continue to be employed in each age-group . |
| 17 | And there had been a 26 per cent rise in the number of people seeking help in the past five years . |
| 18 | The growth of out-of-town retailing has been a particularly contentious issue in the past ten years , not only for its potentially adverse effects on urban shopping centres but also because of the resulting development pressures on fringe and green field sites . |
| 19 | However , since the growth of biblical criticism in the last two centuries , and the revolt against authoritarianism in the past fifty years , there has been a marked tendency to seek the Holy Spirit in other quarters . |
| 20 | what is the point of asking a middle ranking executive about his greatest achievement at work in the past 10 years when he has probably been locked into office procedures laid down by senior management and where his scope for initiative has been restricted . |
| 21 | He believes that the three major influences on the middle market sector in the past 50 years have been the growth of Chinese restaurants in the 1950's , Berni Inns and McDonald 's . |
| 22 | Yet the officially measured real consumption in the past two years has been stronger than it should have been if the official measurement of GDP were accurate . |
| 23 | Observers agree that the soft drink sector is an altogether better bet for the company , which in addition to its strong Schweppes brands has added most of Perrier 's non-water brands and the best-selling Euro-brand Gini to its portfolio in the past two years . |
| 24 | Estimates of the Higgs 's mass can be made from the standard model , and the huge amount of data produced at LEP in the past few years has sharpened such estimates up . |
| 25 | Despite a rise in income from commercial farming in the past five years , profits have almost halved at Newcastle University 's Cockle Park farm in Northumberland . |
| 26 | Rio de Janeiro has suffered several outbreaks of dengue in the past four years and is expected to be hit hardest by the new epidemic . |
| 27 | The transformation of Britain that has taken place in the past 13 years is too readily taken for granted by some of those who have most richly reaped the rewards : the new home owners , the new share-holders , the employees freed from the shackles of militant trade unionism , the NHS patients who have felt the benefits of fund-holding GPs and self-administered hospitals , parents who have witnessed their children thrive in grant-maintained schools . |
| 28 | Accordingly , we shall now concentrate on describing and analysing the developments flowing from Haycocks I that have taken place in the past three years . |
| 29 | This , however , could soon be put right as investors begin to focus on changes which have taken place in the past few years . |
| 30 | It concerns privatisations that have taken place in the past few years under processes and with measures of regulation which the Government said were more than adequate , dismissing all our criticisms . |