Example sentences of "in the [adj] [adj] years they " in BNC.

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1 Final warnings were slapped on 15 of the garages and if they put a foot wrong in the next five years they will also be barred from further MOT testing .
2 In the past few years they have done such a great job in establishing a platform to build on . ’
3 In the past three years they have spent £1m transforming the former run-down pub on the banks of the River Severn into an attractive 34-bedroom hotel with restaurant and conference facilities .
4 If we look into the history of Iraq I do n't think anybody can remember in the past twenty years they have contributed anything , neither in the terms of world economy , neither in the world of world peace , or any humanitarian
5 The forestry commission were once regarded as the covering the country with grand conifers but in the last twenty years they have been changing their ways , they now go half way to square yard their land .
6 In the last 20 years they have been using invisible nylon gill nets half a mile long and more .
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