Example sentences of "[adj] in [art] past [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Erich Honecker gave his last big speech many people regretted the fact that there was n't a hint of sadness about all the things that had gone wrong in the past 40 years , all the changes that should have happened and never did — nor , finally , any regrets about the many people who fled the country . |
| 2 | As the government is quick to point out , the level of resources allocated to the NHS has been generous in the past two years , and as a result productivity has increased and the longest waiting times have fallen . |
| 3 | The island 's isolation and woodsy beauty have made it wildly popular in the past few years ; prices for many single homes have jumped above $300,000 . |
| 4 | Aston Martin , the luxury car company has made two hundred workers redundant in the past two years . |
| 5 | FIGURES which show that more than 300,000 manufacturing workers have been made redundant in the past two years , revealed a ‘ deepening jobs crisis ’ , one of Britain 's biggest unions said yesterday . |
| 6 | ‘ I really believe that the design of p.o.s. has got much more professional in the past few years , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Headlines about local councils demolishing blocks of flats 10 years old or younger have become commonplace in the past four years . |
| 8 | The other two themes were less important in the circular but have become more important in the past 5 years . |
| 9 | If I may anticipate a point which , I know from experience , the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) may in due course seek to make , those increases mean that , when looked at alongside the extra help that we have made available in the past four years through income-related benefits for the less well-off families with children , which will amount to some £600 million next year , total expenditure on help to families next year will be higher than if we had simply increased child benefit each year since 1987-88 . |
| 10 | History of this sort , which offers to explain the relations between properties of societies , has been enormously successful in the past thirty years or so and provides a clear conception of how the underlying interest of holism can guide social enquiry . |
| 11 | We have been most successful in the past few years in attracting investment from 18 countries . |
| 12 | Anyway , everyone knows that training shoes have gone a bit crazy in the past few years . |
| 13 | We have been successful in going in the opposite direction — in increasing the number of jobs and in making British industry more competitive in the past 10 years . |