Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the last decade " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is salutary to note that as we start the 25th Anniversary year of the University the mean residence time of the 23 staff members of the Department of Biological and Molecular Sciences , including the three staff appointed in the last decade , is now 18 years . |
| 32 | The anxiety with which modern woman — the ‘ new woman ’ — was viewed in the last decade of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century is central to an analysis of these images presented by the New Sculpture exhibition ; this is not so much the over-emphasis upon the image of the ‘ femme fatale ’ which Glaves-Smith decries in the catalogue , but those ‘ clear gender constructions ’ which he maintains are ‘ far more subtle ’ ( although it is unclear from his text just what these constructions might be ) . |
| 33 | The optimistic reading is that we have been successful , in that the number of men convicted of rape has increased over the last decade by 39 per cent in the case of rape , 2 per cent in the case of sexual assault , and 55 per cent in the case of incest . |
| 34 | This ritual was practised until the last decade or so but has apparently now ceased , which is perhaps in the best interests of the dolphins . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Plantagenet intervention against France in the Low Countries and the Empire was not to be revived until the last decade of the century . |
| 38 | Where party discipline is concerned , it is clear that voting cohesion has decreased over the last decade as MPs on both sides feel able to vote more freely . |
| 39 | This rise partly reflects the longer-term trend towards owner-occupation ( encouraged over the last decade by the sale of council houses ) and the effects of financial liberalisation . |
| 40 | Such parties are becoming rare , and the winter population has probably declined during the last decade . |
| 41 | MYSTERY glass explosions have occurred at a number of UK buildings constructed during the last decade . |
| 42 | Wales found out-migration diminishing in the last decade ; Sewel concluded that education was not a strong factor in migration ; Jackson and Robinson found local cultural reinforcement by the sub-group in hostels . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Another thirty Health and Safety proposals are on the way such as that on working time in the news last week and another to restore the protection for young people at work which we 've lost over the last decade , and just as important the union has just n not just reacting to what 's coming out of Brussels , it 's actually helping set the agenda . |
| 46 | Another UNICEF report , Child Poverty and Deprivation in the United Kingdom , showed that the number of children living in poverty in the UK had doubled in the last decade . |
| 47 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 48 | Yet the most sweeping changes and the most fertile inventions have in the last decade come from New York . |
| 49 | Many books published in the last decade or so seem to underline the importance of ‘ anticipatory grieving ’ , with the result that relatives and friends can be forced into expressing emotion they may not yet be ready to express . |
| 50 | What the overall figures do not show is the way in which the activity of banking business has changed over the last decade . |
| 51 | So , together with his engraving , etching and aquatinting materials and his pigments for colours which he always mixed carefully himself , it was in the summer of 1800 that he decided to go north ( to the Lakes ) to begin once again and to try to rid himself of all he had learnt over the last decade and ‘ to adhere as faithfully as possible to nature . |