Example sentences of "the last [adj] years [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the last four years we have been asked to believe too many coincidences . |
| 2 | Over the last four years we have consistently moaned , we have passed resolutions at planning , asking committees to consider , and nothing has been done . |
| 3 | As your Qualified Teachers ' representative over the last four years I have witnessed many new and exciting changes taking place within the Medau Society . |
| 4 | And during the last four years you have n't seen him at all , while I 've spent nine or ten hours a day with him , sometimes even more if we 're particularly busy . |
| 5 | For the last 10 years I have worked to create environments for the millions of pilgrims who come to Saudi Arabia . |
| 6 | As well as attending most Easter Courses for the last eleven years I have assisted at Guide Camps for even longer enjoying at least one week a year far removed from houses , telephones and television — what bliss ! |
| 7 | During the last two years we have witnessed many people 's lives in West Belfast getting poorer , nastier , more brutal and arguably shorter due to the introduction of the Social Fund , high interest rates and cuts in the health service . |
| 8 | For the last two years I have had to take two tablets a day . |
| 9 | ‘ In the last two years I have missed nearly everything , ’ he said . |
| 10 | During the last two years I have spent a total of 15 minutes a day with my son 's diaper bucket and can deal quickly with even the most challenging mess . |
| 11 | Over the last six years I have been closely involved with the Institute of Linguists Community Interpreting Project , coordinated by Ann Coresellis whose paper this afternoon will be discussing the emergence and future of the profession of Community Interpreting . |
| 12 | During the last 13 years we have cut , simplified or abolished a whole range of direct taxes . |
| 13 | But the fact remains that for the last 13 years we have been governed by a party rejected by nearly 60pc of voters . |
| 14 | Throughout the last 200 years they have subscribed to the construction and repair of hospitals . |
| 15 | I am 59 years of age and for the last fourteen years I have had curly perms . |
| 16 | ‘ Over the last five years we have had a quiet revolution in vocational education in Scotland , and today we should celebrate that . |
| 17 | Through reorganizing my course material over the last five years I have come to the conclusion that there is no one definitive structure for the study of electronic publishing . |
| 18 | Over the last five years I have moved into working with practising teachers and other members of the education service . |
| 19 | Over the last 8 years we have raised over £34,000 for Christian Aid . |
| 20 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
| 21 | Prof David Brock , of the university 's department of human genetics , said : ‘ Over the last ten years we have been very successful in finding defective genes . |
| 22 | In the last ten years we have seen a fifty percent rise in serious and fatal accidents , at whose expense colleagues ? |
| 23 | Charlton co-manager Alan Curbishley admitted that his side were on a worrying downward trend but pointed out : ‘ In the last three years we have sold players worth more than £4 million and spent only Pounds 450,000 . |
| 24 | Indeed , we always try to give the benefit of the doubt , and the hon. Gentleman may be interested to know that in the last three years we have received 577 claims and have settled 372 of them . |
| 25 | In the last three years we have been operating a programme of capital grants designed to assist governing bodies and their area associations gain access to facilities suitable for the standard of competition immediately below national level and serving major areas of Scotland . |
| 26 | In the last three years we have opened three brand new laboratories : at Colchester , serving rigid packaging and tubes ; at Bristol , with a new complex for flexible packaging scientists ; and at Muscatine , Iowa , which is our largest plastic tubes plant . |
| 27 | ‘ I am really pleased that over the last three years I have been able to show that part-time working can work without any difficulty . |
| 28 | The forestry commission were once regarded as the covering the country with grand conifers but in the last twenty years they have been changing their ways , they now go half way to square yard their land . |
| 29 | I will have more to say about family life in the next chapter , here I note merely that in the last twenty years we have seen the large-scale establishment of the single-parent family , the so-called serial-monogamy syndrome ( divorced people keep getting remarried ) and an endless chain of step-children and step/half brothers and sisters . |
| 30 | As Frank Bell pointed out , ‘ Over the last twenty years we have strived to provide a Quality Service . |