Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect here is that during the last five years the Conservatives have played no part in the management of this county whatsoever , and it has been left to the other two parties to come to an agreement . |
| 2 | The first clear trend is that the dispersion of gross earnings among male manual workers has changed very little during the last hundred years . |
| 3 | The fourth key point was that for the first two years of the programme , between April 1989 and March 1991 , we committed a budget of £24 million to the programme . |
| 4 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 5 | Asked if he had been tempted to quit at any time during the past eight days , he raised a smile and a quip : ‘ I 've felt like that for the last two years ! |
| 6 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 7 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
| 8 | ‘ At first , I was keen just to get round but having done that for the last three years , I am now seriously looking at winning the race . ’ |
| 9 | More distressingly , we discovered that the Aru islands and the Greater Bird of Paradise were no longer on their trading routes and that for the last twenty years they had been pursuing the shorter and more profitable triangular passage between Celebes , Java and Borneo . |
| 10 | The Labour amendment was to explore ways in which resources can be provided to fund and enhance refurbishment programme without closures and that for the next two years the additional necessary funding be sourced from housing benefit income and income from the sale of East Midlands Airport and from other capital receipts . |
| 11 | Norman , 47 , was to stay like that for the next two-and-a-half years . |
| 12 | The Americans countered by accepting this for the first ten years , but adding an extra M per cent interest , bringing the annual figure to £40 million for the remaining fifty-two years . |
| 13 | They forgot that mainframe developers have worked on this for the last 20 years . ’ |
| 14 | This is it , Middle Age , and it will go on like this for the next thirty-six years until , without any big deal , without even noticing probably , it will be Old Age and we 'll still be sitting here . |
| 15 | ‘ Are you going to treat me like this for the next ten years ? ’ |
| 16 | But I reckon the company has made CPP losses in more than half of the last 15 years . |
| 17 | Now of course , some people might say well the Iranians er have n't covered themselves with glory one way and another in the last few years , and that of course , is true . |
| 18 | THE NUMBER of army bands is to be cut by half over the next two years — but all Scottish regimental pipes and drums have escaped the axe . |
| 19 | The government meets three quarters of the costs of section eleven projects , but that 's being cut to half over the next two years . |
| 20 | According to a study by Italy 's joint chiefs of staff , a manpower shortage may lead to the army being cut by up to half over the next 20 years . |
| 21 | Additionally , a further ‘ outside ’ course is taken in each of the first two years . |
| 22 | Geology comprises one third of the curriculum in each of the first two years of study . |
| 23 | During each of the first two years after diagnosis , gastrointestinal symptoms recorded on standardised forms were classified as quiescent , mild , moderate , or severe as defined in Table I. For all 100 patients , the influence of anatomical localisation of disease , sex , severity of gastrointestinal symptoms , duration of daily prednisone use , and of nutritional intervention on the height velocities during each of the first two years were analysed by multiple regression analysis . |
| 24 | During each of the first two years after diagnosis , gastrointestinal symptoms recorded on standardised forms were classified as quiescent , mild , moderate , or severe as defined in Table I. For all 100 patients , the influence of anatomical localisation of disease , sex , severity of gastrointestinal symptoms , duration of daily prednisone use , and of nutritional intervention on the height velocities during each of the first two years were analysed by multiple regression analysis . |
| 25 | Severity of gastrointestinal had the most pronounced influence on linear growth velocity during each of the first two years of follow up . |
| 26 | The tables below show the possible cash values of various premium levels for this 10 year endowment plan at the end of each of the first 5 years . |
| 27 | The table below , supplied by GRE , shows surrender values at the end of each of the first five years of the policy . |
| 28 | In consultation with the Project Coordinating Team , six schools were selected for study in some depth , two from each of the first three years of the project . |
| 29 | Already a giant American sports management group reckon that Christie could earn up to £1million for each of the next four years . |
| 30 | In 1356 , after a succession of fruitless campaigns ( though just before some spectacular successes ) , the king sought in vain from the clergy a grant of a tenth for each of the next six years ; the clergy refused to offer more than a solitary tenth because not only had some of their conditions attached to earlier grants been ignored but also they themselves were too impoverished by war levies of all kinds to afford greater liberality . |