Example sentences of "[conj] in [art] past [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is reported ( EP , 28 December 1987 ) that in the past five years Slovenia has taken full advantage of this arrangement . |
| 2 | It had seemed to him , about halfway through his investigation , that in the past five years Jean-Paul had done one thing , and one thing only . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Miti also claimed that in the past five years Japan 's imports from its 10 largest trading partners had increased by 96 per cent , while exports had risen by only 45 per cent . |
| 5 | The hon. Lady should know that in the past 10 years exports of British manufactured goods have grown faster than those of France , Germany , America and even Japan , because manufacturing is doing so much better and needs our policies . |
| 6 | When my hon. Friend returns to his desk after the next election has been won by the Conservatives , will he bear it in mind that in the past 10 years west Lancashire has benefited greatly from being a development area ? |
| 7 | I repeat that in the past 10 years there has been a devolution of power down into the regions right across Europe , not only inside the EC . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman is also mistaken because he has ignored the fact that in the past three years alone , £10 million of Department of Trade and Industry money has gone to the assisted area in west Cornwall . |
| 9 | It is perhaps worth pointing out that in the past three years we have spent some £350 million on the poorer pensioners . |
| 10 | Having said that , we would agree that in the past 25 years Oxford has tended to do better than Cambridge on several fronts . |
| 11 | 1991 was the worst year of the current 30-year pandemic of cholera , with more cases than in the past five years combined . |
| 12 | According to the National Institute of Agricultural Botany , blind sites are only marginally worse than in the past two years , and so far there have been no reports of problems in seed crops . |
| 13 | I hope to have a safe season and be more consistent than in the past two years . ’ |
| 14 | The 1991 season promises at least seven big-studio releases by black directors , more than in the past ten years . |
| 15 | Lewis refereed last year 's Rumbelows Cup final and in the past five years has taken charge of three FA Cup semi-finals . |
| 16 | Fibres are woven into fabric , matted for insulation and in the past 10 years have been used to reinforce cement . |
| 17 | The Colonel always sought her out on the Thursday of her visit , and in the past few years he had , in the most circumspect manner , pressed his suit . |
| 18 | He is entirely right about the British contribution to Europe , both in the long term and in the past few years when much of the present shape of the Community has arisen from initiatives by this country . |
| 19 | And in the past few years we 've had to go into clearing as most other universities would do . |
| 20 | Recent refinements to production techniques have made tonyu palatable , and in the past three years sales have soared . |
| 21 | Pregnancy and birth complications are 1.7 times more common in Arkhangelsk than in neighbouring districts , and in the past three years the incidence of cancer and blood diseases in children has risen threefold . |
| 22 | Although Britain 's output of services is almost three times its manufacturing output , recorded exports of services are only half those of manufactures — and in the past 30 years , Britain 's share of world trade in services has fallen slightly faster than its share in manufacturing . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But in the past 10 years physiological and pharmacological laboratories around the world have done a lot of research on acupuncture . |
| 25 | But in the past few years the trend has been in the opposite direction . |
| 26 | But in the past few years a phoenix has risen from the flames of Lakehurst . |
| 27 | Nature conservationists and farmers ( who both understand what does happen to abandoned land ) should know better , but in the past few years , seem to have become possessed by the same fear of some dark , prolific genie escaping from the bottle . |
| 28 | But in the past few years , the insurance market has been losing money , and it has turned out that the resources of even the richest people are less than infinite . |
| 29 | But in the past 2.5 years over 30,000 jobs have gone from the defence industry . |
| 30 | in real terms under the last Labour Government , whereas in the past 12 years there has been an increase of more than 19 per cent . |