Example sentences of "the last [adj] years [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reduction in the and the persistent rise the depreciation charge , which is going over the last four years as we maintain a high level of capital spending . |
| 2 | She ached inside , a sensation that had once been very familiar , but which she had deliberately suppressed over the last four years until she had almost forgotten what it had felt like . |
| 3 | But My Lords the idea that independent people is news nonsense for the last thirty years so we 've had independent people on the police authorities by the of the magistrates and there 's nothing new in that . |
| 4 | Mm say if you 're on the world , if you , if you 're a net importer , right , erm , and you 're buying your food commodities from the world market , you must have been rubbing your hands over the last fifty years cos you 're getting , you 're buying , you 're buying a food commodities will lower , lower prices than you would have done in the presence of free trade , cos there 's all this dumping and European surpluses , you know Come in |
| 5 | Soon after this incident Richard emerges from the obscurity which had surrounded his movements in the last two years since he knelt in homage at Montmirail . |
| 6 | They will apply to fourth and fifth-formers , aimed at providing the pupils with more choice and flexibility during the last two years before they can leave school . |
| 7 | ‘ We have had more fan mail in the last two years than we ever did in the previous 30 , ’ Gerald says . |
| 8 | In the last five years since he set up his consultancy from his Bayswater home with a £20,000 overdraft and a stack of letterhead stationery , he has insisted that he will only work for causes in which he believes , and these causes are , by and large , left-wing . |
| 9 | Right up until I was n't able to do any more and able to , like all engineers you get most of the men when you get to the stage where you 're not able to crawl under cars and do things like that so you you find another bu business , we went into sales and , and er accessories , stores and that I 've been in all that line in the last twenty years before I retired . |
| 10 | So you , you could put him into property , erm but erm I do n't know if he 'd been in the U K for the last few years whether he 'd be that keen on commercial property . |
| 11 | He told delegates : ‘ A lot of good people , good socialists have been deluded into joining the SNP in the last few years because they thought that was the best way to defeat the Tory government . |
| 12 | Scotland must take their chances in London against a side that has been the most consistent for the last few years if they are to come away with the spoils of victory . |