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1 Each year for the past five years the South Cambridge Forum for Industry Education Liaison has organised a ‘ Chemistry at Work ’ exhibition for fifth and sixth formers from schools in its area .
2 For the past five years the scheme 's costs have been met on a limited term basis through special funding by the Government and then by joint agency funding .
3 The area of Washington I know best lies around Dupont Circle , its streets now ablaze with pink , purple and white azaleas , the pavement cafes now opening up , and where for the past two decades the left think tank , the Institute for Policy Studies , has been loc-ated .
4 For the past two years the trustees of the Marriott Bequest have funded a scheme aimed at giving young members of the RSC a taste of scientific publishing .
5 For the past two years the BVDG has used the Cologne Art Fair as a platform to promote support for particular museums .
6 For the past two years The Fellow , who is half a thoroughbred , half trotter , has come to the final fence with Europe 's classic steeplechase seemingly won , only to lose it by a whisker on the run-in .
7 For the past six hours the downpour had been continuous and torrential .
8 This brief has been fulfilled with distinction , and every three or four months for the past 20 years the office has produced an objective , well-documented , literate , and attractively presented booklet encapsulating the known facts about subjects ranging from suicide , rabies and heart disease , to the cost of running hospitals and what the public expects from the NHS , always adding a few percipient comments and conclusions of its own for good measure .
9 For the past 300 years the substantial remains of one of medieval England 's most important fortresses have lain hidden beneath part of the city centre .
10 For the past 12 years the Government have behaved like latter day Don Quixotes tilting at windmills and all the other renewables .
11 During the past eight years the use of natural gas has been rising , but wind and solar power have also been increasing dramatically .
12 However , during the past twelve years the balance between full-time and part-time students has shifted markedly in favour of the former .
13 During the past 12 years the Government have shown a lack of interest in regional economic policies .
14 During the past twenty years the role of export education has been fulfilled by the Institute of Export without any assistance or recognition whatsoever .
15 During the past 40 years the two Germanys have gradually come closer together economically while bolstering each other 's separateness at the same time .
16 During the past 25 years the global market value of crop protection and enhancement agents has increased from ca $2 000m to ca $19 000m .
17 Basically , every compliment that has been chucked in Suede 's direction during the past ten minutes the band wholeheartedly , erm , agree with .
18 It opened with his favourite theme : ‘ During the past ten years the system of standing Cabinet Committees has proved its value as a means of relieving the Cabinet of a great weight of less important business . ’
19 Throughout the past 12 years the regional gap has widened .
20 IN the past two years the UDA has matched the IRA death-for-death and carried out some of Ulster 's most barbaric murders .
21 Editor , — On three occasions in the past two years the duty surgical team have contacted me while on call as duty psychiatrist with a view to giving consent to a surgical procedure on behalf of a patient .
22 In the past two weeks the administration has stepped up its campaign to encourage voluntary service .
23 In the past four years the reaction has become probably the most widely used single technique in all branches of the biological sciences .
24 But in the past five years the economy has been pulled along at an even faster pace than that merited by its industrial over-achievers .
25 However , it should be some consolation to the hon. Gentleman and the hon. Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) that in the past five years the average sentence for rape has increased by 70 per cent .
26 Does not that show that , despite all the promises and pledges , in the past five years the Government have carried out a sorry and tragic charade and have connived at every stage with Black Bob Scholey to sell off the Scottish steel industry ?
27 The Gordon 's ‘ Green ’ campaign continues to be popular in the UK spirits market , using the famous green of the UK Gordon 's livery with a series of witty one liners ‘ Gordon Bennett ’ was a development of this theme in the important pre-Christmas period — the first multi-coloured version of the campaign This recent work gained the highest awareness of any UK spirits advertising in the past five years The ‘ Green ’ campaign continues to appeal to all age groups , but most significantly has continued to improve the brand 's attraction amongst young adults
28 And the situation is getting worse … in the past five years the number of reported cases of serious backpain has risen by forty percent .
29 Latest provisional figures for in-patients and day cases for September 1991 show that in the past six months the number of patients waiting over a year fell by 7 per cent .
30 In the past nine months the terror group — which boasts a bigger membership than the IRA — has murdered 14 people , two more than for the same period last year .
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