Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [adj] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Van Dyck had a hand in exporting his style to England in the 17th century ; the allure of the full-length formal portrait endured for the following 300 years . |
| 2 | Blue eyeshadow , much reviled for the past five years , is back at Chanel , Lancôme and Rubinstein and has never been out at Lauder — Mrs Lauder is a firm believer in the power of blue . |
| 3 | This model has been developed and validated over the past four years by a research team at Loughborough University through extensive experimentation . |
| 4 | Before the building of roads , it was peripheral and resembled that practised for the previous 350 years . |
| 5 | Together , the graphs sum up what happened during the intervening eighty years . |
| 6 | All of this happened during the past ten years . |
| 7 | Well I worked for the past two year really |
| 8 | First , in an organisation with an all white or largely white workforce , network recruitment will help to ensure that this stays the case , particularly at a time when large numbers of white workers are unemployed and prepared to re-enter the comparatively poorly paid and less pleasant jobs they deserted in the past few years . |
| 9 | It will , however , be a faster rate of increase than any recorded over the past 10,000 years . |
| 10 | As the Thai economy boomed over the past three years , becoming the fastest-growing in the world , many commentators predicted that these great families were bound to lose their grip . |
| 11 | Koch started at the top seven years ago with an 85ft cruising boat , a 65ft fishing boat and an 81ft racing maxi named Matador , after the family ranch in Kansas . |
| 12 | The package , which applied to the current fiscal year ( ending in March 1993 ) , was finally passed on Dec. 10 , after the special session of the Diet had been extended for a further two days . |
| 13 | We must judge the second world war differently , but let us make sure that we do not repeat the mistakes that so many politicians thoughout Europe made over the past 100 years . |
| 14 | The big jeans names are already aware of the authentic newcomers , and are beginning to realise that the original utility styles they updated and bastardised over the past 30 years are the current fashion winners : watch them scramble to regain their own heritage . |
| 15 | Never again did it match that apex of prosperity that it reached during the brief nine years that Shah Jehan ruled from the Red Fort . |
| 16 | It fell into the red last year , losing A$2.6m . |
| 17 | The center of gravity in employment is moving fast from manual and clerical workers to knowledge workers who resist the command-and-control model that business took from the military 100 years ago . |
| 18 | Most meteorites collected elsewhere in the world fell within the past 200 years , although some dates of fall range back a few thousand years . |
| 19 | We played a well we went to the open last year , quite a few of us , and we 're going again er and w It was n't a particularly nice day but we thought if it 's it was a nice day , this would really be a lovely course . |
| 20 | Yesterday 's newspaper columns on the election were devoted to Mr Dinkins ' promises to defend Jewish interests in the same way that Mayor Ed Koch did for the past 12 years . |
| 21 | The most obvious was to seek better compounds than the original nitrogen mustards , and numerous alkylating agents emerged during the following 30 years . |
| 22 | IBM Corp reveals in the proxy statement for the annual meeting that total pay and benefits for chairman and chief executive John Akers fell 17% in 1992 to $1.3m — Akers ' variable incentive payout , which is based on operating results , was $375,000 , a decline of 42% on 1991 , reflecting both IBM 's performance against targets and relative performance from year to year ; IBM said for the past two years , Akers ' annual pay declined over $1.3m , a fall of 50% ; it proposes to elect John Akers to the board after quits the top job . |
| 23 | The plants had for the past three years been emitting toxic fumes which had caused skin diseases among the villagers , killed fish in local fishponds and contaminated farmlands . |
| 24 | Dr Peter Ritchie of North Tees said in the current financial year , 5pc of total bed days would occupied by Middlesbrough patients . |
| 25 | By 1937 the number of brewery firms had been reduced to 1,000 , and this process continued in the immediate post-war years . |
| 26 | Great Britain had in the previous eighty-four years of modern Olympic history produced only one 100 metres champion , Harold Abrahams , who had won in Paris in 1924 at the Stade Colombes . |
| 27 | He said that the existing system of Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSIs ) had proved ineffectual , with over 500 SSSIs destroyed in the past two years , and that the legal protection to be given to SACs was still unclear . |