Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] few years [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has played in Sicily for the past few years and has decided to renew his contract . |
| 2 | Many manufacturing industries have been destocking during the past few years but now that is slowing down . |
| 3 | Tory group leader Tony Richmond refuted the figures , saying : ‘ There have been more new houses built in Darlington during the past few years than at any other time in the past . |
| 4 | Tory group leader Tony Richmond refuted the figures , saying : ‘ There have been more new houses built in Darlington during the past few years than at any other time in the past . |
| 5 | Having liquidated one in four employees during the past few years and having promised to treat its workforce to more of the same during 1993 , IBM should have surprised no one by investing some of the money it has presumably saved in an organisation formed by the people who produced the most recent Terminator film . |
| 6 | If they can , they are much more cautious as a result of the experience of the past few years than they have ever been . |
| 7 | He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself . |
| 8 | The impression has been strengthened in the past few years that macro-economic developments and policies are now essentially international in character . |
| 9 | It is only in the past few years that a good understanding of these types of collision has emerged , and it is only a year since Tiesinga et al . |
| 10 | ‘ Glasgow 's had a facelift in the past few years but it 's no more than that . |
| 11 | Action has been taken , not just in the past few years but consistently by successive Governments since 1904 , to inhibit tobacco consumption by children . |
| 12 | Certain areas , notably Oxford and Cambridge and the so-called Golden Triangle , have experienced major high-tech-based growth in the past few years and the government is keen to encourage this type of development as reflected in Department of the Environment Circular 16/84 , changes to the Use Classes Order and measures to liberalise planning controls over business in general . |
| 13 | We are looking forward to ever-increasing production from our huge investments in the past few years and therefore , even if the oil price remains flat , to ever-increasing cash flow . |
| 14 | The main reason for many Opposition Members feeling more warmly towards the European Community now than they did in the past is the record of the Community in the past few years and the contrast between what has happened elsewhere in the Community and what we have seen take place in Britain . |
| 15 | Hatfield has become a bl black spot because of the closure of , er the aerospace industry in the County has suffered gravely in the past few years and I think you will agree , the closure of at . |
| 16 | He has been on nearly two dozen foreign trips on behalf of LA in the past few years and some of his questionable financial dealings have been investigated . |
| 17 | I have n't been too bad over the past few years but I 've certainly been left with the legacy of my habit . |
| 18 | Pat Keen has spearheaded the growth of Medau in CORNWALL over the past few years as well as organising our display at the Cornwellian Exhibition . |
| 19 | What is amazing , therefore , is that the agency that has the responsibility for this programme — Milton Keynes Development Corporation — has been largely wound down over the past few years and the remainder of it will cease to exist in 1992 . |
| 20 | The book represents an attempt to explain the series of unexpected corporate failures over the past few years and why it was that company accounts do not appear to have given adequate warning of what was to happen . |
| 21 | Applications for undergraduate study in the Department have been increasing over the past few years and are currently four times the number of places available . |
| 22 | Now , our understanding of this relationship has increased dramatically over the past few years and our knowledge of new vessel formation or angiogenesis has also increased . |
| 23 | In fact the numbers of female motorists has risen sharply over the past few years and since 1987 the number has almost doubled . |
| 24 | Does my hon. Friend agree that those figures reflect a sharp improvement in this country over the past few years and scope for some of our Community partners to do more to encourage unleaded petrol sales ? |
| 25 | ‘ We have expanded rapidly over the past few years and have now outgrown our existing factory , ’ said David Gray , chairman and managing director of the Saltofix Group . |
| 26 | The workers feel the package is derisory , particularly as they have accepted minimum wage rises over the past few years and Yarrow has at least three years ' work on its books . |