Example sentences of "[art] last [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the last four years we have been asked to believe too many coincidences . |
| 2 | Over the last four years we have consistently moaned , we have passed resolutions at planning , asking committees to consider , and nothing has been done . |
| 3 | For the last four years she had struggled to forget about him , to make a life for herself without him . |
| 4 | ‘ Over the last four years I 've had to learn to take each day — and night — as it comes . |
| 5 | As your Qualified Teachers ' representative over the last four years I have witnessed many new and exciting changes taking place within the Medau Society . |
| 6 | And during the last four years you have n't seen him at all , while I 've spent nine or ten hours a day with him , sometimes even more if we 're particularly busy . |
| 7 | And in the last hundred years you 've done nothing but rob , fight , and murder ! |
| 8 | ‘ 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 … |
| 9 | During the last 10 years they had , Taylor explained , expended a large sum of money without deriving " any profit whatsoever " , and were inclined to hope that this and the further anticipated expense entitled them to consideration by " Royalty reduction or otherwise " . |
| 10 | Yeah , I got the impression when the TV commentators were going on about the Turks being in Europe for the last 10 years they were just looking for some excuse to explain th scum 's ineptitude . |
| 11 | British Gas said that over the last 10 years it has lost about 2,000 workers a year with the switch to natural gas . |
| 12 | For the last 10 years I have worked to create environments for the millions of pilgrims who come to Saudi Arabia . |
| 13 | In the last fifteen years we 've been a country where law had little to do with Labour relations . |
| 14 | And really the slate industry I think probably hinges on quality being maintained you know I mean li like I said I do n't want to go in you know I 'm no expert on this sort of thing but erm A deep sense of of injustice I think is that and , oh my God if if we let him start making us just you know like robots produce more and more slate and laying off some of the older craftsmen and you know they do and David Price who knows and I mean th they put that and and then they the last fifteen years it was a it was a defunct slate quarry before you know and they I mean it 's not as i it 's not an easy thing to er work slate I 'm sure it 's d difficult and you have to know what you 're doing . |
| 15 | As well as attending most Easter Courses for the last eleven years I have assisted at Guide Camps for even longer enjoying at least one week a year far removed from houses , telephones and television — what bliss ! |
| 16 | ‘ By lowering our costs over the last two years we feel we can now pass some of those savings on to customers . ’ |
| 17 | During the last two years we have witnessed many people 's lives in West Belfast getting poorer , nastier , more brutal and arguably shorter due to the introduction of the Social Fund , high interest rates and cuts in the health service . |
| 18 | ‘ The last two years we 've grown really close , ’ she said at last . |
| 19 | But field staff fear that this might not be appreciated in head-quarters where senior officials might be unfamiliar with their routine strategies : ‘ One can say that because you have n't taken any stats in the last two years it 's because you 're a good lad , and people who you may have to take stats upon know that you 're around a lot , and they know that if they 're naughty it 's a two-edged thing , you can look at it two ways . ’ |
| 20 | I mean over the last two years it 's been shock horror headlines , you know , will endowments fail to repay the loan , are endowments good value and I ke some of the journalists I 've read bef over the last two years have actually completely reversed what they said t two years ago when P E Ps were declining because of poor share markets and bonuses were coming through quite nicely on the endowments , they said oh endowments are the thing to do . |
| 21 | The last two years it 's been falling apart so we have to ke kept kept folding the wheels back on |
| 22 | For the last two years I have had to take two tablets a day . |
| 23 | ‘ In the last two years I have missed nearly everything , ’ he said . |
| 24 | In only the last two years I 've noticed that more people are being drawn to the hills in Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | During the last two years I have spent a total of 15 minutes a day with my son 's diaper bucket and can deal quickly with even the most challenging mess . |
| 26 | ‘ But now that I 've been on a regular contract at Brookside for the last two years I can afford a season ticket in the stand ! ’ |
| 27 | He said that in the last two years he had met very few institutions which had not cut back their system budgets following the 1987 crash in share prices in the stock market . |
| 28 | For the last two years he had been in practice in Northampton , and he did not at that stage wish to endanger his prospects there by letting his application to Bedford be generally known ; if Whitbread gave his support however , Thackeray would ‘ make his pretensions public ’ . |
| 29 | For the last two years he 's covered the City of London Festival , a smaller version of the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 30 | For the last two years he 's covered the City of London Festival , a smaller version of the Edinburgh Festival . |