Example sentences of "[vb base] for the last [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year .
2 Now , is it any wonder why American businesses in Singapore have for the last 5 years registered a remarkable 25% average rate of return .
3 One of the contexts in which we are exercising ministry is that we have for the last fifty years well I have n't personally !
4 I have for the last two years been closely involved with an EEC forecasting study — The Forecasting and Assessment in Science and Technology ( FAST ) Biosociety subprogramme .
5 We will continue to protect its value against price rises , as we have for the last 13 years .
6 We have tried to sum up the fragments of information which we have for the last three centuries in our second chapter , ‘ Glimpses of a Lost History ’ .
7 But I want you to understand that , in making up my mind , I did not forget the country or the Commonwealth which , as Prince of Wales , I have for the last 23 years tried to serve .
8 I have for the last ten years been writing software using Clipper database and would like to improve the front end on some of the software .
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