Example sentences of "in [art] past 10 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past 10 years , elephant numbers in Africa have fallen from more than 1.2 million to about 600,000 . |
| 2 | Government figures show that 10,000 people have died in drink-drive accidents in the past 10 years . |
| 3 | In the past 10 years only one has been awarded . |
| 4 | British public libraries have in the past 10 years diversified very considerably by providing their public with access to a variety of non-book materials . |
| 5 | what is the point of asking a middle ranking executive about his greatest achievement at work in the past 10 years when he has probably been locked into office procedures laid down by senior management and where his scope for initiative has been restricted . |
| 6 | Fibres are woven into fabric , matted for insulation and in the past 10 years have been used to reinforce cement . |
| 7 | In the past 10 years , with the discovery and exploitation of important oilfields from Venezuela south to Bolivia , roads and airstrips have been built , colonists have poured in , towns have been founded and the rainforest is disappearing . |
| 8 | But in the past 10 years physiological and pharmacological laboratories around the world have done a lot of research on acupuncture . |
| 9 | Finally , Japan 's manufacturing industry has staked a lot in the past 10 years on installing advanced production techniques , and has attained a substantial advance in the use of robots and other automated systems . |
| 10 | The logic circuitry needed to generate and decode signals of this kind has become available only in the past 10 years or so . |
| 11 | In the past 10 years , the average number of kidney transplants in Japan has risen from less than one a week to about one every day . |
| 12 | In the past 10 years drink-driving deaths have halved to 700 a year . |
| 13 | ‘ Since the reorganisation , ’ says ICI 's Richard Freeman , ‘ we as a company have had tremendous support from the DTI , in a way that I ca n't remember in the past 10 years . ’ |
| 14 | Interest rates have halved in the past 10 years to 5.75% , because Singapore 's savings rate is so high that the banks are flush with funds . |
| 15 | Scott LJ ( with whom Butler-Sloss and Purchas LJJ agreed ) said that the appeal raised a question that had been before the court on a number of occasions in the past 10 years . |
| 16 | People who committed crimes in the past 10 years while on bail would have to provide good reasons why they should be released . |
| 17 | In the past 10 years , LTP in the hippocampus has become the dominant model of activity-dependent synaptic plasticity in the mammalian brain , and much progress has been made in elucidating the mechanisms underlying its induction and expression . |
| 18 | In the past 10 years there have been many suggestions of an increased incidence of cancer , or of clusters of cases , in the vicinity of nuclear installations . |
| 19 | How has your diet changed in the past 10 years ? |
| 20 | Important advances in cellular immunology and molecular biology , especially in the past 10 years , have largely clarified the immunological paradox of pregnancy , but not yet definitively explained how the ‘ foreign ’ fetus survives to term without provoking maternal immune rejection . |
| 21 | After visits during these extra two hours were excluded , claims increased by 38.7% from 1989 to 1992 and more than doubled in the past 10 years . |
| 22 | In the past 10 years Canadians have doubled the amount of money borrowed from banks to pay for consumer goods . |
| 23 | We have been successful in going in the opposite direction — in increasing the number of jobs and in making British industry more competitive in the past 10 years . |
| 24 | Will the Minister commend Lagan college in my constituency for the progress that it has made in the past 10 years ? |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman is in no position to talk about opt-outs , considering that his party has opted out of every necessary decision to assist this country in the past 10 years and has backed every inflationary wage claim , every piece of trade union militancy and every policy that would do damage to Britain and its future . |
| 26 | However , does he agree that there has been a fall of well over half in the percentage of gross domestic product invested in the railways in the past 10 years ? |
| 27 | The Department of Trade and Industry alone has spent £1.5 billion in the past 10 years in the hon. Gentleman 's region , the success of which is shown by the success of local businesses and industry . |
| 28 | By spending more resources on this matter , as I intend to do , having tripled our programme in the past 10 years , I believe that we shall make still further progress , with the help of education , too . |
| 29 | Naturally we regret any rise in bankruptcies , but let us remember the strengths of British industry , which has increased exports in the past 10 years by more than France , Germany , the United States or Japan — The hon. and learned Gentleman does not like that answer because he wants to talk Britain down . |
| 30 | in the past 10 years — from around 38,500 people in 1981 to nearly 47,000 people in 1991 . |