Example sentences of "past few years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major British companies have all suffered considerable loses in the past few years with the cancellation of Proxicromil ( Fisons ) , the halting of research on Tiotidine ( ICI ) and questions surrounding other drugs such as Ranitidine ( Glaxo ) . |
| 2 | Use of Ingres products has been expanding rapidly in Eastern Europe over the past few years through local distributors in the Czech Republic , Hungary , Poland , Slovakia , and Slovenia , the company says , with customers including the Polish Central Statistical Office and the Stock Exchange in Budapest , Hungary . |
| 3 | He was a big , bald man who had toed the papist line for the past few years under Mary , and was now willing to return to Anglicanism should that be the wish of his Bishop . |
| 4 | It concerns privatisations that have taken place in the past few years under processes and with measures of regulation which the Government said were more than adequate , dismissing all our criticisms . |
| 5 | I advise him and others to be extremely reticent in proceeding to the supposedly automatic system of introducing guillotine motions , especially after our experience of the past few years under the Government . |
| 6 | The owners blame acid rain and substantially increased traffic over the past few years for the bridge 's sorry condition . |
| 7 | There are frequent reports , some of them in the Soviet press , of bungling and inefficiency in both exploration and production , yet expert opinion on what the Soviet oil industry can achieve has been shown over the past few years to be wildly wrong . |
| 8 | We 're particularly aggrieved because we suffered very badly from the storm in 1987 and we 've been struggling in the past few years of drought to replant , ’ said Mr Myers . |
| 9 | However , the results — far from presenting a more ‘ acceptable ’ picture of English housing — bore out everything that housing experts had been warning the government about for the past few years of increasing housing cuts . |
| 10 | It is necessary to cut through the confusion and to attack the mess of local government finance which is the legacy of the past few years of Conservative rule . |
| 11 | So in the past few years since Big Bang we have seen dealers chasing every hare , especially since dealing volumes declined and firms have been more desperate to do business . |
| 12 | This project attempts to answer these questions , concentrating on computer programmers and systems analysts and building on the base of information gathered during the past few years at Bristol . |
| 13 | Although margins have been hit over the past few years by competition from contractors and because the company has kept its prices fairly constant , he said the decision to ‘ cross-skill ’ employees should result in increased margins . |
| 14 | An investigation undertaken in the past few years by the United Nations found that ‘ … in the majority of reporting agencies , computer staff … have chief responsibility for management policies relating to e-mail communications … |
| 15 | ‘ In addition , ’ said Dr Palmer , ‘ the meat industry needs to counteract , through better marketing and promotion , the negative image generated in the past few years by food activists and by media sources . ’ |
| 16 | In my local hospital in Withington , the number of beds for the elderly has decreased in the past few years from 140 beds to barely 20 . |
| 17 | Japan 's Matsushita and Sony have each invested more than $5 billion over the past few years in America 's entertainment business , while Time and Warner have merged in the belief that big companies can best exploit a proliferating array of new media . |
| 18 | Many beekeepers have been examining their bees carefully for the past few years in efforts to find the mite . |
| 19 | At the same time levels of public expenditure on the railways have been declining steadily over the past few years in the run-up to an expected privatisation and are now well below those of Britain 's Continental neighbours . |
| 20 | The American embassy in Seoul reviewed the history of guerrilla activity over the past few years in April 1950 . |
| 21 | This had begun to develop significantly in the past few years in terms of quality . |
| 22 | This interest has now received a further stimulus from the events of the past few years in Europe . |
| 23 | We have been most successful in the past few years in attracting investment from 18 countries . |
| 24 | The town has made great strides forward working with the community and business over the past few years in cleaning up the town and making it the kind of place which is able to compete and win a national environmental accolade . ’ |
| 25 | Methadone has been prescribed in Edinburgh for the past few years in an effort to control the spread of AIDS by offering people an alternative to injecting drugs . |