Example sentences of "[adj] [num] years we " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of C.A. 1991 it was recorded that over the previous 18 years we had raised over £210,000 for the cause . |
| 2 | Over the previous twenty years we had become preoccupied with structural arguments about regions and areas when we should have been concerned about how the service was run . |
| 3 | So by taking a trip back nearly three hundred years we could say that we have covered the pre-modern world thoroughly enough . |
| 4 | The greatest importance of the Oklo reactors is that they are still there — after almost 2000 million years we can still find the fission products and demonstrate what happened . |
| 5 | ‘ In the first two years we will establish 6,000 nursery and after school places and offer staff the chance to choose the hours they work , ’ she said . |
| 6 | Quite a long time I would have start probably with more than thirty years ago , because me Mum always make cheese and I just thought making when I was still a girl at the school and since we came here and farmed on me own behalf well twenty six years we 've been making cheeses here . |
| 7 | Nineteen sixty one , er , our anniversary was a few weeks ago , twenty one years we 've been married , but er |
| 8 | Two thousand years we have kept these three Treasures safe here . |
| 9 | For two thousand years we lived in darkness . |
| 10 | And for two thousand years we have had a government not our own . |
| 11 | For two thousand years we have done that . |
| 12 | Besides even if they did n't win it again for the next two million years we 'd never hear the end of it . |
| 13 | If we look at the development of computers over the past 30 years we see accelerated change of a phenomenal nature . |
| 14 | ‘ In the last 10 years we 've created more jobs than ever before , higher living standards than ever before , better social services than ever before , higher living … |
| 15 | Over the past 10 years we have already come from a situation where road runners were getting virtually nothing from the sport , to a far more respected and well-provided role . ’ |
| 16 | For the past 10 years we 've been working on synthesising the chemical ; now we 're trying to see if the European Yew will provide the starter material for producing anti-cancer activity . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ Over the past 10 years we have been striving hard to maintain the numbers of part-time firefighters which are needed for this vital community service . ’ |
| 18 | It clearly is not the case , that , we have heard from the city this morning , and in the city alone windfalls have been progressing at the rate of eighty per annum , if it was only half that rate over the next thirteen years we would see five hundred more houses , and that excludes windfalls from the rest of the Greater York area , excluding the city of York . |
| 19 | No , because over the last six years we 've actually gone from bottom of the pile to tenth from bottom . |
| 20 | Over the past three years we invested in new models , new manufacturing facilities and capacity . ’ |
| 21 | It is perhaps worth pointing out that in the past three years we have spent some £350 million on the poorer pensioners . |
| 22 | ‘ In the past three years we have provided NSF with $600 million for the high-performance computing initiative ’ , says Kevin Kelly , an aide to Senator Barbara Mikulski ( Democrat , Maryland ) , who is chair of the appropriations subcommittee that controls the budgets of NSF , NASA , the Environmental Protection Agency and several other agencies . |
| 23 | In oil services , in the future there could be further major acquisitions but er , over the past three years we 've er , undertaken a whole series of acquisitions and er , and for the moment I would n't see anything er , in the , in the major line there , although you never know if some , even sometimes opportunities you are n't capable of creating erm , er , because the er , situation is not right er , do occur and I would n't rule it out but erm , er , we have n't erm any major acquisition er , on , on , on the carpet there at the moment . |
| 24 | In the past three years we 've adopted a three percent turnover . |
| 25 | Charlton co-manager Alan Curbishley admitted that his side were on a worrying downward trend but pointed out : ‘ In the last three years we have sold players worth more than £4 million and spent only Pounds 450,000 . |
| 26 | Indeed , we always try to give the benefit of the doubt , and the hon. Gentleman may be interested to know that in the last three years we have received 577 claims and have settled 372 of them . |
| 27 | In the last three years we have been operating a programme of capital grants designed to assist governing bodies and their area associations gain access to facilities suitable for the standard of competition immediately below national level and serving major areas of Scotland . |
| 28 | In the last three years we have opened three brand new laboratories : at Colchester , serving rigid packaging and tubes ; at Bristol , with a new complex for flexible packaging scientists ; and at Muscatine , Iowa , which is our largest plastic tubes plant . |
| 29 | I mean , we 've been all round but the last three years we 've stayed at Carlton |
| 30 | Over the next three years we are committed to the biggest investment in Britain 's transport infrastructure in our history . |