Example sentences of "last [num] [noun] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My husband has put a lot of work into Maastricht and the last six months have been awful for him , ’ she said . |
| 2 | THE last six months have been tough for John Major . |
| 3 | ‘ Each of the last three quarters has been profitable and results continue to be encouraging . ’ |
| 4 | Any politically informed Briton knows that two of the most politically controversial issues during the last three years have been monetary issues : exchange rate policy ( membership of the ERM ) and interest rate policy . |
| 5 | ‘ We know the last three years have been hard for you , Shai Tung . |
| 6 | ‘ The last 25 years had been bloody , ’ Gauntlett winces . |
| 7 | If it 's something to do with music reflecting society 's tends rather than being the voice of treason , then can we rightly assume that most bands of the last ten years have been pro-Thatcher ? |
| 8 | If it 's something to do with music reflecting society 's tends rather than being the voice of treason , then can we rightly assume that most bands of the last ten years have been pro-Thatcher ? |
| 9 | Much of geography over the last 40 years has been concerned with analysing these subsystems by breaking down each subsystem into ever smaller component parts and studying these parts , and their interrelationships , at an increasing level of detail . |
| 10 | I think I 'm probably drawing too many parallels between the serious situation and the pop situation , but certainly no doubt that English pop for the last twenty years has been pre-eminent in Europe , and still is . |
| 11 | All my thoughts , actions and energies for the last four months had been concerned only with Nigel . |
| 12 | Thus the most influential sociologists researching on later life in the last thirty years have been first and foremost concerned with documenting poverty and need among the old , rather than looking at their present lives as a whole , or how they reached where they are now . |
| 13 | The dominant linguistic school over the last thirty years has been generative linguistics which has its foundation in Chomsky 's revolutionary Syntactic Structures ( Chomsky , 1957 ) . |
| 14 | There is no doubt that the last eighteen months have been short of American patronage for European dealers ( a combined effect of general economic conditions , the aftermath of the Gulf War and the continued high value of the pound against the dollar ) , so the hope is that this year 's focus will bring the Yankee Doodle Dandies to town . |
| 15 | The attrition of the last two decades has been severe . |
| 16 | The rate of growth in the last two years has been explosive and forecasts suggest this rapid rise will strengthen during the middle and late 1990s as CD-ROM readers become a standard built-in element of most desktop computer systems . |
| 17 | The last two years have been uncertain ones for the Gloucestershire regiment . |
| 18 | ‘ The last two years have been difficult because of the effects of the Gulf War and recession . |
| 19 | Although promotion slipped from our grasp early on , our fight for survival over the last seven months has been real nail-biting stuff . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ What 's happened in the last 24 hours has been unbelievable . |