Example sentences of "in [noun] for the last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The acknowledged leader in modern first editions , which have been greatly in vogue for the last two years . |
| 2 | The current account had been in deficit for the last 17 years and by late 1990 constituted around 7 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) . |
| 3 | Mr Young , 77 , who directed the James Bond movies Dr No and From Russia With Love , has lived in Cannes for the last 20 years . |
| 4 | It seems to differ little if at all from the standard idea of the mainstream in force for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 5 | Vocational training for the actor as we know it has only existed in England for the last eighty years . |
| 6 | A Bolivian , born in Paris into the Ortiz-Patino family who made their fortune in tin mining in South America after World War I , Ortiz has been resident in Geneva for the last twenty-five years . |
| 7 | I think I speak for the vast majority of the environmental health committee when I say that the abatement and noise pollution has been one of our ongoing major concerns in things for the last twelve months . |
| 8 | Robert wondered how this particular breakaway section of a breakaway section of the Nizari Ismailis had managed to carry on like this in Wimbledon for the last seventy years . |
| 9 | Being another only child , and as my father 's job had kept my parents in Singapore for the last two years , I now spent most of my holidays with my aunt and cousin , timing them to come in Dickie 's school holidays . |
| 10 | She was of course referring to the Salisbury Annual Pleasure Fair that has been held for three days commencing on the third Monday in October for the last seven hundred years . |
| 11 | There have been people in Australia for the last 40000 years and claims for their presence there in the last interglacial have been made . |
| 12 | Engel is German by birth but has lived in Britain for the last 20 years , and this mixed background has been reflected not only in Melancholia 's plot but in its production history , as it has been co-financed by the British Film Institute and the Hamburg company Lichtblick . |
| 13 | I 've been working in watercolours for the last seven years , but this particular picture is quite experimental for me . |
| 14 | Thames Transit has been running bus services in Oxford for the last seven years . |
| 15 | Yeah , I got the impression when the TV commentators were going on about the Turks being in Europe for the last 10 years they were just looking for some excuse to explain th scum 's ineptitude . |
| 16 | His main mission in life for the last ten years , as chief executive of an organization called Business in the Community ( BitC ) , has been to cut unemployment and regenerate the inner cities . |
| 17 | Managing director Michel Apchin confirmed takeover rumours , saying ‘ We have been in negotiations for the last few weeks with a group that is not French . |
| 18 | Number three in charts for the last million million years Michael . |
| 19 | A FISH and chip restaurant which has stood empty in Darlington for the last three years looks set for a new lease of life . |
| 20 | In we 've had a menopause clinic in Glasgow for the last twenty four years erm , it 's run by a male doctor erm but we have been treating patients for that length time . |
| 21 | ‘ From what he says , he has been in Amsterdam for the last six weeks , and rarely went far from the airport . |
| 22 | This was SkottiS , Scottish-Icelandic Cultural Days 1993 , in Reykjavik for the last three weeks , as a follow-up to last summer 's Breaking the Ice festival which gave a Scottish showcase to Icelandic culture . |
| 23 | Australian Mutual Provident has been building up its stake in Pearl for the last two years . |
| 24 | At Benjamin Rhodes , there are new paintings by Simon Edmondson ( 17 June-7 August ) , who has been living in Madrid for the last twelve months and previously showed with Nicola Jacobs . |