Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] the [num ord] year " in BNC.

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1 Despite the law , the company has grown over the last year .
2 The number of parents sending their children to private schools has risen for the eighth year running , despite a downturn in the economy and an upturn in school fees , the Independent Schools Information Service revealed .
3 Having considered the potential benefits of offering discounts for full payment of Council Tax the Council has decided for the first year that it is not beneficial and that therefore no discounts will be offered for full payment .
4 that it has reduced over the last year at Thornhill and I do know that we have agreed in our budget for this coming year to put in closed circuit television at all four Park and Ride car parks , which presumably will reduce it at the others as well .
5 As part of our continuing review of quality systems , we are completing an evaluation of the way the new system has worked in the first year .
6 ‘ Too much has happened in the last year , ’ he said , ‘ and too much change around a candidate is not wise . ’
7 Spaniard Martin Vasquez , back with Real Madrid after an unhappy few months at the Velodrome , has left in the last year or so along with Chris Waddle , Trevor Steven , Dragan Stojkovic , Eric Cantona and £10 million Jean-Pierre Papin .
8 The consultations that the Board has conducted over the last year have indicated that both SSAP 15 and SSAP 24 are high on the list of standards that should be subject to a comprehensive review in the medium term and at that time the inconsistencies in the approaches adopted , as noted above , can be considered more fully .
9 The number of companies mentioning environmental issues in their annual reports has doubled over the last year to around 18 per cent of the total .
10 And I think originally it may have run in the first year both at easter and at August .
11 Many systems and many faces may have changed over the last year or two and I do n't imagine you would believe me if I said that none of these changes had saddened me but , in a changing market-place , the basics have n't changed and the most basic precept of all is that there are no healthy banks where there are no health customers to sustain them .
12 I used to suffer from spots , but they seem to have gone in the last year or two , I 'm thankful to say .
13 Further shocks were to come : the reason behind Diana 's sometimes gaunt appearance was her battle with the binge-and-vomit eating disorder bulimia , from which she had suffered since the first year of her marriage .
14 Guilt and exhaustion is what she had felt for the next year .
15 Mr Adams pointed out that the profits of Ford of Britain had risen for the third year running to a record £673m and he calculated a further increase to £710m was likely this year .
16 Mr Dick Davison , of the Independent Schools Information Service , said a dozen private schools had closed in the last year .
17 The Iraqi Health Ministry said on Aug. 26 that 14,333 children had died in the last year owing to the absence of medical supplies .
18 where you , you get a scale response to them and we can do stats on but equally , if you get people to describe their most recent dream or describe their most erm , you know , compelling dream or , you know , a good one that they 've had in the last year or something like that , you may want to try and get that on tape or something like that erm if possible , yeah .
19 And at the main counter , er of the total amount you 've spent in the last year , both on your own stamp collection and on gifts to other collectors , which you do n't do , how much have you spent at the main counter ?
20 It 's Of the total amount you 've spent in the last year , both on your own , how much have you spent at the main It does n't ask you how much you spent anywhere .
21 It 's for this reason that many of the shop stewards ' conferences that we 've convened in the last year have been pressing a policy of consolidating bonus pay into the basic rates and we 've achieved some small success in this in building brick and in one or two other industries .
22 His one serious love affair had happened in the first year of the war with a girl younger than himself whom he had thought he loved .
23 ‘ It 's the last thing Portadown needs because we 've tried in the last year to regenerate the town . ’
24 COT deaths in England and Wales have dropped for the third year in succession .
25 ‘ But we are proud of what we have done in the last year and a half . ’
26 We have undergone in the last year a major refurbishment of all our guest and public rooms and now offer the comforts so necessary for a mini-break .
27 I heard that that er er er parts of the rest of the U K property prices have risen over the last year , er but ours have actually not risen at all .
28 ‘ Of all the products we have evaluated during the last year , Knowledge Adventure 's range of products are the most innovative , enjoyable and most interesting educational/home learning titles yet . ’
29 But you know we have to look beyond the first year or two , we have to look at what 's going to happen to that school over a much longer period of time , and quite frankly erm I would feel safer with erm what was called the big brother of the Local Authority .
30 Oh the total amount you have spent in the last year .
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