Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [art] last [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | A college report on a short experiment in mechanics A thesis for a higher degree in anthropology The findings of a young worker during Voluntary Service Overseas , on the social conditions in an African village The conclusions and opinions reached by the holder of a travelling scholarship on the variations in educational opportunities in several countries Findings on the depopulation of the countryside of S.W. England in the last 100 years Financial recommendations on a proposed merger of two large companies Economic proposals on the purchase and distribution of sugar in the E.E.C . |
| 2 | Meanwhile as my visits to South Africa showed me in such a traumatic and depressing way the conditions of the majority have got worse there 's economic recession lay-offs , high inflation rate and growing violence more people have been killed in South Africa in the last two years than in any previous two years that you look at . |
| 3 | In spite of the prevalence of economic planning in the 1960s and 1970s , it is doubtful whether a development policy has existed in most of Africa in the last twenty-five years . |
| 4 | We have not made any far-reaching contingency plans for after 1997 ; indeed so much has happened in China in the last two years that has shifted the mood from gloom to optimism ; today Hong Kong is a booming economic zone and is regarded as the mediator between the Western and Chinese economies ’ . |
| 5 | THREE thousand people , most of them innocent civilians , have been murdered in Ulster in the last 23 years … for nothing . |
| 6 | That 's one thing , at least , that has n't changed for Guinness in the last 20 years . |
| 7 | He explained how he had smuggled £175.4 million into Germany in the last five years . |
| 8 | Would n't have wormed through any Factory Safety Act passed in Britain in the last fifty years , open and unshielded parts , and half of the men who used them wore the scars on their hands to prove the danger . |
| 9 | Hamburger joints and up-market American-style restaurants have been spreading all over Britain in the last few years , and their food has been getting more authentic and better all the time — at least in terms of taste . |
| 10 | Opinion polls suggest that a variety of social reforms carried out in Britain in the last few years — the abolition of capital punishment and the liberalization of the law relating to homosexuality , for example — were enacted in the face of popular opposition . |
| 11 | The severe storms that have affected Britain in the last few years may be linked with sea-surface temperatures which have been fractionally higher than the long-term average . |
| 12 | Middlesex in the last two years have carried out their preseason training at the centre . |
| 13 | UB has made acquisitions in Europe , Australia and the US in the last two years in an attempt to strengthen its international presence in the biscuits and savoury snacks markets . |
| 14 | A. In Lancashire , Merseyside and Greater Manchester in the last 10 years about 2 000 000 people have moved house ; that is about one third of all families . |
| 15 | I 've quartered Europe in the last few years . |
| 16 | It is thought that perhaps as many as twenty million have been sold across America and Europe in the last forty years to people anxious to contact dead relatives or to get answers to difficult problems in life . |
| 17 | I have tried to focus such an examination by playing the parlour game of making a list of the 50 Europeans who have most influenced the consciousness of Europe in the last 1,000 years . |
| 18 | Although automatic and semi-automatic high-bay warehousing systems are being built abroad at an ever increasing rate — some 2,000 have been constructed in Japan in the last fifteen years — the rate of development in the United Kingdom may only be described as slow . |
| 19 | Japanese attempts to change Japan in the last 150 years have been both imitative and derivative , but have been accompanied by conscious and unconscious retention of indigenous characteristics and the ‘ simulation ’ of traditional Japanese attributes , plus a fair measure of originality . |
| 20 | An aid convoy veteran is making his 14th trip to Poland in the last three years . |
| 21 | This extra food production is the result of the Green Revolution , which has transformed agriculture in Asia and Latin America in the last 20 years . |
| 22 | Money market activity has developed very rapidly in London in the last thirty years , partly due to the growth of the financial sector in general , but also because of the increasing demand for sophisticated financial services by clients both in the UK and abroad . |
| 23 | I want you to check on any murderers who 've been convicted and sent to Whitely in the last three years , got it ? |
| 24 | Like I said , I want to know how many murderers have been sent to Whitely in the last three years . |
| 25 | Gradually , he led her through the centuries to later years , years that brought about the attempt to overthrow the Faith by the English under Henry , and of the increasingly repressive measures that had been taken by the Lord Deputies under Elizabeth in the last fifteen years . |
| 26 | He told delegates : ‘ A lot of good people , good socialists have been deluded into joining the SNP in the last few years because they thought that was the best way to defeat the Tory government . |
| 27 | After three wars fought with Berlin in the last 150 years , concern to preserve the sanctity of the border with Germany runs deep in Denmark . |
| 28 | Survival International calculates that 100,000 people have been killed in Guatemala in the last 25 years and over a million forced to flee what is described as the brutality of the US-supported government there . |
| 29 | The redshank has vastly expanded its breeding range in Shetland in the last thirty years or so . |