Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] years it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole festival is heavily dependent on sponsorship and for the last five years it has successfully attracted and maintained a number of business sponsors both locally and nationally . |
| 2 | For the last twelve years it 's been a Conservative seat . |
| 3 | For the last few years it was held up by 20 players of outstanding international standard and we did not realise that technically we were dying ’ . |
| 4 | For the last twenty years it has been the government policy in both countries to er protect their civilian populations against these weapons and the potential use of them by er terrorists or a hostile force . |
| 5 | Because I 've had my hair highlighted regularly for the last ten years it gets really dry . |
| 6 | For the next 10 years it basked in its monopoly , with radio still supreme , as TV came slowly out of the shadows . |
| 7 | For the next twenty-six years it languished at the back of Bispham Depot , until driven under its own power to the Works in February 1960 for renovation . |
| 8 | Although hailed at the time as ‘ the most important discovery in England [ and perhaps ] … of greater importance than any other yet made at home or abroad ’ , during the next forty years it became increasingly difficult to reconcile this hominid with the burgeoning human fossil record from Asia and Africa . |
| 9 | Within the last 20 years it was the practice here to pen the sheep for clipping and for the fleeces to be thrown up to a helper standing on the gallery , who put them at once into the barn for storage . |
| 10 | At an absolute minimum , the worth of the company must be £100m ( in fact , within the next two years it would be worth £25Om . ) |
| 11 | I 'll go in these doors , I was n't surprised , I did n't think they would , but as this guy said afterwards he said whether you do it now or later he said , within the next five years it 's gon na be banned so I think it still will be banned in the end |
| 12 | In the first four years it nearly halved the PSBR , or borrowing requirement , from 5 per cent of GDP in 1978 — 9 to 2.7 per cent in 1982 — 3 and Britain had a markedly tighter fiscal stance than her Western European neighbours . |
| 13 | This transmission , which can handle up to 221lb ft torque , is definitely the shape of things to come at Mercedes , and in the next two years it is likely that all six-cylinder Mercedes cars will be equipped with it . |
| 14 | La Plata , the administrative centre of Buenos Aires province , had undergone economic vicissitudes at the end of the century , but with the upturn in its fortunes in the next few years it acquired a station of striking originality , an overall shed flanked by a staggeringly ornate pentagonal building covered in statuary and surmounted by a dome . |
| 15 | But field staff fear that this might not be appreciated in head-quarters where senior officials might be unfamiliar with their routine strategies : ‘ One can say that because you have n't taken any stats in the last two years it 's because you 're a good lad , and people who you may have to take stats upon know that you 're around a lot , and they know that if they 're naughty it 's a two-edged thing , you can look at it two ways . ’ |
| 16 | The economy has been so strong in the last few years it 's going to take a lot to bring it down . ’ |
| 17 | In the last few years it has become clear that many other churches are working in this way in every denomination . |
| 18 | In the last few years it has been appreciated by the House of Commons that the method of scrutiny chosen was not best adapted to influence the final shape of Community legislation . |
| 19 | In the last ten years it is estimated that the NRO has spent more than $50 billion , none of it accountable . |
| 20 | In the last ten years it has become apparent that there is some stability and continuity in intellectual and cognitive functioning from infancy through early and later childhood . |
| 21 | He says over the last five years it 's got far more popular … it 's a sport which is developing … it 's just opening up as a competitve sport … |
| 22 | British Gas said that over the last 10 years it has lost about 2,000 workers a year with the switch to natural gas . |
| 23 | I mean over the last two years it 's been shock horror headlines , you know , will endowments fail to repay the loan , are endowments good value and I ke some of the journalists I 've read bef over the last two years have actually completely reversed what they said t two years ago when P E Ps were declining because of poor share markets and bonuses were coming through quite nicely on the endowments , they said oh endowments are the thing to do . |
| 24 | ‘ Over the last ten years it 's been getting much worse . |
| 25 | It was really only a very small group of students involved , but they got a lot of publicity and I think over the last few years it 's changed quite a lot . |
| 26 | Over the last three years it has killed at least 20 people . |
| 27 | In a departure from the stance of previous governments , the government announced in February 1990 that over the next five years it proposed to pay Sch300,000,000 in reparations to Austrian Jews who had fled the country after the Anschluss ( the forcible union of Austria with Nazi Germany in 1938 ) and who had not previously received compensation . |
| 28 | Over the next ten years it kept going by making a succession of calls on its shareholders for additional funds ; by 1708 it was fairly clearly insolvent , and after 1713 it almost completely ceased trading . |
| 29 | Over the next ten years it opened the doors to the development of relations between Wilson 's union and the shipowners so cordial and mutually supportive that his enemies in the labour movement could express ironic astonishment that he had ever had " any special connection with the Seamen at all " . |
| 30 | Over the next ten years it had averaged £23 billion a year . |