Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [num] years [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that during the intervening twenty-five years the lord had bought out most of the freeholds , which , with few exceptions , must have been very small , and might just be identified with the sixteen ‘ Farme Landes ’ . |
| 2 | In the following two years the dollar value of the dinar fell to a quarter of its end-1985 value , and the proportion of the value of foreign exchange deposits covered by the counterpart dinar loans will have fallen to about 4 per cent . |
| 3 | The origins of an organised market in the debt of the government can be traced to the end of the seventeenth century and during the following hundred years the growth of the Stock Exchange itself was closely bound up with the growth of government debt . |
| 4 | During the following eight years the hyperparasite has spread rapidly and infected most of the S . |
| 5 | In the following three years the thesis remained on my desk , unrequested by anyone else . |
| 6 | In the previous five years the advice was published , but this year the Department of Education and Science kept it confidential . |
| 7 | Over the previous two years the lower-school IS work had been restructured to incorporate new elements and an increased use of project work . |
| 8 | The new Headmaster was Mr. Christopher Herman Gilkes , an Oxford graduate and for the previous six years a Housemaster at Uppingham . |
| 9 | In response , the guardians pointed out that for the previous thirty-four years the infirmary had received patients suffering from the same class of disease as William Joseph C. from the workhouse , in accordance with the arrangement whereby the guardians were currently paying £202 per annum to the infirmary . |
| 10 | In the first six years a total of 266 reviews were conducted identifying annual savings of –600m with an additional 67m of one-off savings ( Making Things Happen , 1985 , p. 9 ) . |
| 11 | However , in case of foreign participation in excess of 20 per cent of the equity or 5 million forints the assessment is reduced by 20 per cent , but if more than half of the income is derived from manufacturing goods or carrying on the business of a hotel , and the stock capital exceeds 25 million forints and the foreign participation exceeds 30 per cent , then during the first five years the tax is reduced by 60 per cent and thereafter by 40 per cent . |
| 12 | During the first three years an average of well under 200 teacher-days a year were spent on English courses , a surprisingly modest allocation of time in view of the status of English as a core curriculum area . |
| 13 | The large wartime backlog of investment left considerable scope for economies in new investment , as in the first ten years the length of distribution mains in service were extended by nearly a third . |
| 14 | After 1839 the number of staff gradually increased but for the first 20 years the work was confined to southern Britain , limited by the availability of Ordnance Survey maps . |
| 15 | IN the past two years the UDA has matched the IRA death-for-death and carried out some of Ulster 's most barbaric murders . |
| 16 | The six months since Britain left the ERM have seen a more complete U-turn in British economic policy than at any time in recent memory ; and over the past two years the deterioration in the nation 's finances has also been spectacular . |
| 17 | Over the past two years the debate has veered between consolidating the remains as a war memorial and reconstructing the church ( see The Art Newspaper No. 9 , June 1991 , p.14 ) . |
| 18 | Over the past two years the number of class members attending Study Group days has fallen off considerably . |
| 19 | For the past two years The Fellow , who is half a thoroughbred , half trotter , has come to the final fence with Europe 's classic steeplechase seemingly won , only to lose it by a whisker on the run-in . |
| 20 | Editor , — On three occasions in the past two years the duty surgical team have contacted me while on call as duty psychiatrist with a view to giving consent to a surgical procedure on behalf of a patient . |
| 21 | As Diane Bailey 's Curtis Cup team were chosen in 1986 that means that in four of the past five years a team have come top of the poll . |
| 22 | Over the past five years the pace of discharges from psychiatric hospitals has accelerated as elderly patients have been transferred to the community . |
| 23 | Each year for the past five years the South Cambridge Forum for Industry Education Liaison has organised a ‘ Chemistry at Work ’ exhibition for fifth and sixth formers from schools in its area . |
| 24 | For the past five years the scheme 's costs have been met on a limited term basis through special funding by the Government and then by joint agency funding . |
| 25 | Does not that show that , despite all the promises and pledges , in the past five years the Government have carried out a sorry and tragic charade and have connived at every stage with Black Bob Scholey to sell off the Scottish steel industry ? |
| 26 | Over the past five years the concept of the ‘ ansaphone ’ has been extended to incorporate the idea of ‘ voice mail ’ . |
| 27 | But in the past five years the economy has been pulled along at an even faster pace than that merited by its industrial over-achievers . |
| 28 | Over the past five years the executive information system has established itself as niche software in this area , but until recently the price of even PC-based EIS has prohibited their use by all but the major groups British Gas , Caledonian Airways , and the Kwik Save group , to name a few . |
| 29 | And the situation is getting worse … in the past five years the number of reported cases of serious backpain has risen by forty percent . |
| 30 | In the past four years the reaction has become probably the most widely used single technique in all branches of the biological sciences . |