Example sentences of "[art] last [adj] years [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last four years the widow had been forbidden to leave her husband 's side , and her legs had so deteriorated that ( it being considered lèse-majesté ; to crawl ) she had herself carried about her diminutive space by her " slaves " , the " lesser widows " . |
| 2 | In the last thirty years the balance in our criminal justice system has been tilted too far in favour of the criminal and against the protection of the public . |
| 3 | During the last fifty years the church musician as a kind of freelance ‘ general practitioner ’ has been increasingly replaced by those who derive their livelihood more as school music teachers than from their appointment as parish organists . |
| 4 | Welcome back : Over the last fifty years the car has become a vital part of most people 's lives . |
| 5 | They have charted complex changes since 1000 BC , showing that even in the last 1500 years the area has evolved from a series of tidal inlets , through the development of spits and dunes , to the triangular area that it is today , with the vast recent pebble dumps of Dungeness . |
| 6 | For the last 14 years the show has been put on at the Apollo Theatre , with adoring parents almost filling its eighteen hundred seats as those true troopers give their all for the gang show . |
| 7 | Over the last hundred years the proletariat has schooled itself in the pretensions of the bourgeoisie ; while the bourgeoisie , less confident of its ascendancy , has become more sly and deceitful . |
| 8 | But based on the experience of the last 10 years the total is expected to fall by more in March . |
| 9 | 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 last two years the deterioration in the nation 's finances has also been spectacular . |
| 10 | He explained that for the last two years the unit has been funded with money from the Department of Education and Science channelled through Durham County Council . |
| 11 | For the last two years the public have been asked to nominate winners for the Korn/Ferry prize but this year it will be decided by a judging panel alone . |
| 12 | In the last two years the number of contrived matches , with results achieved only by means of last-day declarations and sometimes by lollipop bowling , has grown . |
| 13 | Walking is a natural exercise for most people , and over the last six years the Health Education Department of Lothian Health Board with the help of SHEG , and the Recreation & Leisure Departments of East Lothian , Edinburgh , Midlothian and West Lothian , have promoted this to encourage family and friends to Walkaboutabit . |
| 14 | In the last 200 years the irrigation system has been extended to increase the number of crops grown annually and especially to increase the cultivation of cotton which is a major export crop . |
| 15 | However , in the last 5 years the command line interface has begun to be replaced by the graphical user interface ( GUI ) . |
| 16 | For the last fourteen years the trade union movement has shouldered the blame for the Labour Party 's dismal showing in the general elections . |
| 17 | Additionally , for the last five years a history is kept aggregating the number of days absence by type of absence . |
| 18 | I mean it 's about sort of you know in it 's about increasing the erm where we are within our own particular sphere and it 's far too much I mean people it 's interesting that I mean for the , it seems to me an and once again correction but it seems to me the last five years the empowerment thing was really strong and now managers are moving away from it and saying it 's jargon as a means of diluting it . |
| 19 | Darlington Tory MP Michael Fallon : ‘ Over the last five years the Government has transformed the economy of Teesside and rejuvenated the area 's industry and infrastructure . ’ |
| 20 | Over the last 2000 years the Church has thought it right to make many changes : in patterns of ministry , in liturgical forms , in ethical emphasis , in doctrine . |
| 21 | For the last several years the transformation has been led by one particular member of that leadership , who was designated the ‘ project manager ’ of the entire change effort . |
| 22 | For the last 40 years the firm 's been using the shaft to dump waste oil , solvents and even raw sewage from its toilets . |
| 23 | For the last ten years the spending of the City Council has risen beyond belief . |
| 24 | In the last ten years the BDA has successfully taken up many individual cases of discrimination . |
| 25 | From the end of World War II to the early 1970s there was virtually full employment in developed countries , but in the last ten years the position has changed considerably as shown in fig. 1.11 . |
| 26 | Over the last ten years the act of consuming a film has changed radically . |
| 27 | Over the last ten years the use of computers in the work of historians has increased dramatically . |
| 28 | In the last ten years the number of phone calls from Britain to other European countries has multiplied two and half times . |
| 29 | Over the last ten years the gap between benefits and wages has widened and the new social security system has served only to heighten the disparity . |
| 30 | Over the last three years the board has contributed £581,275 towards improving such facilities at tourist attractions , in hotels and self-catering apartments . |