Example sentences of "the [adj] [adj] years [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position of Gaelic has deteriorated dramatically in the intervening forty years and it is now argued convincingly that a local language is itself a development tool . |
| 2 | Maza had gained a high reputation for leading the fight against " narco-terrorism " over the previous six years and he also claimed several successes in rescuing the kidnap victims of the drug cartels . |
| 3 | of men working full-time has never been wider in the past 100 years than it is today . |
| 4 | She was thirty-nine now , and it was only in the past two years that she had put on weight . |
| 5 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 6 | Demand for the company 's breakfast cereals and snack food products has increased rapidly across Europe during the past two years and it is a leading manufacturer of own-label breakfast cereals . |
| 7 | Does the Secretary of State not accept that our valley councils have lost more in rate support grant over the past 10 years than he has given them in new money in the latest package ? |
| 8 | Much of the methodology described in this chapter is derived from work in Dr Martin H Johnson 's laboratory , Department of Anatomy , Cambridge , during the past 10 years and I should like to express my gratitude to all members of the laboratory past and present for their contribution to it . |
| 9 | A report by the human rights organization Amnesty International , released to coincide with the anniversary and cataloguing a history of discrimination , violence and injustice , stated that " the mass killings of indigenous peoples may have reduced over the past 500 years but they have never stopped " . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been playing throughout the year for the past six years and I think my body is telling me it is time for a break , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been playing throughout the year for the past six years and I think my body is telling me it is time for a break , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been playing throughout the year for the past six years and I think my body is telling me it is time for a break , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Not only will he be one of the few Democrats to win the presidency in the past 50 years but he will have humiliated an incumbent President in the process . |
| 14 | I have n't been too bad over the past few years but I 've certainly been left with the legacy of my habit . |
| 15 | ‘ Glasgow 's had a facelift in the past few years but it 's no more than that . |
| 16 | If they can , they are much more cautious as a result of the experience of the past few years than they have ever been . |
| 17 | Hatfield has become a bl black spot because of the closure of , er the aerospace industry in the County has suffered gravely in the past few years and I think you will agree , the closure of at . |
| 18 | The firm 's market share in Italy 's public sector has been eroded over the past three years and he says Olivetti , unlike its principal European competitors ( Siemens-Nixdorf of Germany and Bull of France ) , has enjoyed no particular privileges in its home market . |
| 19 | There has been a Europeanisation of academic life over the past 20 years since I had the good luck to be appointed to Edinburgh 's Regius Chair of Public Law . |
| 20 | ‘ And in a perverse way this is something which may be helpful because they are now beginning to appreciate more clearly the fear that has existed within the Protestant community for the past 20 years as they have been killed at random by the IRA , ’ he added . |
| 21 | ‘ I have been fascinated by the IBM Environment for the past 20 years and I am only too pleased to unravel its complexities to those of you attending this seminar . |
| 22 | The population of Snaith has doubled in the past 25 years but it is still small enough to ‘ know everybody ’ ; ask for people by name , rather than by their address ! |
| 23 | Congratulations to the S.V.R. for all they have achieved over the past 25 years and I am sure that all members of the BCRS will wish them continuing success in the years to come . |
| 24 | A Jockey Club inquiry rejected the claims of 57-year-old Ken Evans Aintree recall man for the past seven years that he waved his red flag to stop riders in the two false starts . |
| 25 | And so , yes it is a big problem and it seems to be increasing , er the number of sufferers has doubled in the past ten years and we , we do n't really know why yet . |
| 26 | The total number of eligible beneficiaries was 29 in 1963 and 32 in the subsequent relevant years and they were all persons other than the two settlors . |
| 27 | Our results suggest that endometriosis is less of a problem during pregnancy and the subsequent four years than it is at other times , although the finding was not significant . |