Example sentences of "have [verb] in the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here it is time to turn to a consideration of what has become in the last decade , and is still as I write , perhaps the single most popular learning model in the trade today . |
| 2 | In the conventional view , Britain , once a legend throughout the world for its stolid , peaceable , and harmonious character , has experienced in the last decade and a half an alien and shocking advent of unprecedented incivility and disorder . |
| 3 | The influence of pressure groups in the political process has waned in the last decade , largely because the Conservative Party , and indeed many electors , took against the relationship between the Labour government and the trade unions in the 1970s in which the unions had seemed to exercise excessive influence over the government . |
| 4 | Well what , of course , has happened in the last generation or two is the growth of poetry readings . |
| 5 | ‘ Too much has happened in the last year , ’ he said , ‘ and too much change around a candidate is not wise . ’ |
| 6 | Now what has happened in the last decade or so , through the advent of radioastronomy , is that we 've discovered that there are vast clouds of molecules between the stars and they 're just chock a block with very intriguing molecules , many of which are just the sort of things we would expect to be in the prebiotic soup . |
| 7 | A national conference in March 1980 , organised by the Women and Housing Group , attracted 200 women , and a women-only housing co-operative has started in the last couple of years to house its members . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The incidence of many congenital malformations has declined in the last decade thanks to advances in screening coverage ( see Carter 1983 , Royal College of Physicians 1989 ) and techniques , and wider knowledge of the availability of abortion . |
| 10 | But the poll shows 82 per cent feel moral values have declined and 83 per cent think young people 's behaviour has declined in the last decade . |
| 11 | ‘ This connection is particularly important at the current time when we know the numbers of women on low income has doubled in the last decade . ’ |
| 12 | He 'd fought in the last war and is a very intelligent and basically optimistic person , like John . |
| 13 | You will have noticed in the last case that Duchy Hotels owned another , smaller hotel as well as the Dee Hall . |
| 14 | It could have occurred in the last couple of days , within the Metropolitan police area . |
| 15 | Even HG Wells might not have believed in the last years of the 20th century , plans were being laid to walk across the Martian south pole . |
| 16 | Having lost in the last group match against Australia 6–0 and punctured an eardrum to boot , he admits he felt depressed . |
| 17 | I used to suffer from spots , but they seem to have gone in the last year or two , I 'm thankful to say . |
| 18 | What appears to have happened in the last week of the campaign is that a large proportion of the ‘ Do n't Knows ’ plumped for the Conservatives , possibly in fear of rumoured Labour tax rises . |
| 19 | Louis XIV had seen in the last days of his reign the growing pointlessness of the traditional Franco-Austrian antagonism , but his efforts to achieve some agreement with the Habsburgs were not followed up by his successors . |
| 20 | Mr Fallon said the Government was providing much more money for training than it had done in the last recession in the '80s . |
| 21 | Mr Dick Davison , of the Independent Schools Information Service , said a dozen private schools had closed in the last year . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Of the seven warmest years in the 20th century ( which were , in order , 1990 , 1988 , 1983 , 1987 , 1944 , 1989 and 1981 ) six had occurred in the last decade . |
| 24 | Of course it had belonged among those unhappy mad thoughts which she had had in the last days . |
| 25 | I think one of the biggest problems we 've got or I 've I 've had in the last couple of years is that we 've got so many primary schools that we get children from Spring Gardens and Western are now producing national curriculum information for which Marian has got . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Some of these plants had arrived in the last box , but in a bad condition and , moreover , unnamed . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |