Example sentences of "and in [art] last [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in the last hundred years you 've done nothing but rob , fight , and murder ! |
| 2 | It was what one did with wealth that counted , and in the last 10 years voluntary giving had doubled . |
| 3 | There were 4,000 reports to the National Criminal Intelligence Service last year and in the last five years over £500,000 in cash has been seized . |
| 4 | And in the last five years he 's too old to do it . |
| 5 | And in the last two years only three children under 14 have had to be placed in secure accommodation . |
| 6 | And in the last two years many up-and-coming bands have played at Darlington wine bars Perry 's and Harvey 's . |
| 7 | And in the last four years about one hundred local firms have been given help . |
| 8 | The Pakistan government is hampered by lack of resources in launching any large-scale projects , and in the last 13 years less than $120 million has been ploughed into crop substitution programmes by foreign aid organisations . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Bristol , Liverpool and Glasgow ( qq.v. ) had grown to give London plenty of competition , and in the last forty years Rotterdam has overtaken London in the annual tonnage it handles . |
| 10 | Languages and their histories are invaluable resources for feminists analysing the workings of patriarchal societies , and in the last twenty years feminists have drawn our attention to the sexist implications of usage in many languages . |
| 11 | What is there to say er what 's not been said already yesterday , today , last year 's meetings and in the last ten years . |
| 12 | Both men are Christians , and in the last few years a number of other Christian writers have followed in their footsteps ( Hunter 1983 ; Guinness 1983 ; Williamson , Parotta et al 1983 ; Kolakowski 1986 ) . |
| 13 | It seems to me that we 're stronger fighting that together than apart and in the last few years a growing number of successful campaigns have strengthened this belief . |
| 14 | But the trend is towards taking the bitterness and confrontation out of divorce , and in the last few years there has been a growth in the number of ‘ mediation ’ and ‘ conciliation ’ ( not to be confused with reconciliation ) services available . |
| 15 | Thirdly , he was a politician and in the last 20 years of his life , he gave 3 political speeches a week in different parts of the country and wrote a number of books on the train going from one speaking engagement to another to avoid wasting time . |