Example sentences of "past [num] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past eight years it has halved in size ( from 6500 staff in 30 institutes ) and simultaneously it has changed its entire research strategy . |
| 2 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |
| 3 | If we look at the development of computers over the past 30 years we see accelerated change of a phenomenal nature . |
| 4 | But now the solar influence is beginning to turn around to contribute a further warming influence up to the year 2010 , boosting the greenhouse effect where for the past 30 years it has been counterbalancing it . |
| 5 | As breeder and exhibitor of budgerigars for the past 12 years he finds the joke wearing thin , but it has n't dampened his enthusiasm for his hobby . |
| 6 | For the past 26 years he has worked in the offices at the Courtaulds Chemicals power station on the Spondon site . |
| 7 | For the past six years they 've spent time perfecting the revolutionary 3.6 litre , 32 valve , V8 engine . |
| 8 | I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid . |
| 9 | In the past six years he has represented himself before 34 High Court judges , 25 Masters , 14 Registrars , four stipendary magistrates , two Justices of the Peace , and four Scottish sheriffs Yesterday was his 239th court appearance . |
| 10 | Over the past 10 years we have already come from a situation where road runners were getting virtually nothing from the sport , to a far more respected and well-provided role . ’ |
| 11 | For the past 10 years we 've been working on synthesising the chemical ; now we 're trying to see if the European Yew will provide the starter material for producing anti-cancer activity . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ Over the past 10 years we have been striving hard to maintain the numbers of part-time firefighters which are needed for this vital community service . ’ |
| 13 | For the past 100 years it has ejected more than 1,000 tonnes of chlorine into the atmosphere every day . |
| 14 | For the past 7 years he 's attended Dean Hall Special School near Cinderford . |
| 15 | This is vintage Saddam : over the past 21 years he has swung between killing Iraqi Kurds and offering them more self-rule than the Kurds in Turkey , Iran or Syria can dream of . |
| 16 | In the past three years they have spent £1m transforming the former run-down pub on the banks of the River Severn into an attractive 34-bedroom hotel with restaurant and conference facilities . |
| 17 | Over the past three years they have turned one of the most dishonourable Soviet professions into something worthy of admiration . |
| 18 | For the past three years they had shared her tedious exile on her father 's estate , where she had seen no one but her brothers and aunts . |
| 19 | Over the past three years we invested in new models , new manufacturing facilities and capacity . ’ |
| 20 | It is perhaps worth pointing out that in the past three years we have spent some £350 million on the poorer pensioners . |
| 21 | ‘ In the past three years we have provided NSF with $600 million for the high-performance computing initiative ’ , says Kevin Kelly , an aide to Senator Barbara Mikulski ( Democrat , Maryland ) , who is chair of the appropriations subcommittee that controls the budgets of NSF , NASA , the Environmental Protection Agency and several other agencies . |
| 22 | In oil services , in the future there could be further major acquisitions but er , over the past three years we 've er , undertaken a whole series of acquisitions and er , and for the moment I would n't see anything er , in the , in the major line there , although you never know if some , even sometimes opportunities you are n't capable of creating erm , er , because the er , situation is not right er , do occur and I would n't rule it out but erm , er , we have n't erm any major acquisition er , on , on , on the carpet there at the moment . |
| 23 | In the past three years we 've adopted a three percent turnover . |
| 24 | I am 23 and for the past three years I have been piling on the pounds without realising it until I finally took a good look at myself weighing in at 12st 3lbs ( 77.5kg ) at 5ft 4ins ( 1.6m ) . |
| 25 | In 1987 , I moved to Sheffield and formed Red Grape Cabaret , and for the past three years I have toured the country with fellow comedians Roger Monkhouse and Adam Cavaleri , telling jokes in a bewildering variety of circumstances . |
| 26 | ‘ For the past three years I 've been a respectable married man , young lady . |
| 27 | During the past three years he had knocked as much as 40 seconds off his five-mile mark . |
| 28 | For the past three years he has been building LDP 's contract business in the South of England . |
| 29 | Over the past three years it has received 11 visits from the Sudbury-based charity group Christian Cargo . |
| 30 | It just so happens that for the past sixty years it has been . |