Example sentences of "[art] past [adj] years [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past 100 years it has ejected more than 1,000 tonnes of chlorine into the atmosphere every day . |
| 2 | For the past two years she has been responsible for the rights department of Hachette 's children 's book imprints in Paris . |
| 3 | For the past two years she has been Chairman of the ‘ Kent Teachers ’ and has also been a member of the Kent display Team since 1976 . |
| 4 | It makes sense to retain Lineker , for though his rate of scoring may have dropped considerably over the past two years he remains the only England striker of sufficient class to succeed in Italy next summer . |
| 5 | For the past two years he has begun on July 10 . |
| 6 | For the past two years he has run Colnaghi 's representative office in Paris and has been responsible for business development in Europe , Japan and South America . |
| 7 | And for the past two years he has been holed up in London . |
| 8 | For the past two years he 's been dreaming of bringing the marathon to Nepal … now he 's planning the big day … |
| 9 | In the past two years it has become much harder in America to use the private method of dealing with distress . |
| 10 | In the past two years it has grown by more than 35 per cent , and anyone who put in £3,000 when it was launched , in April 1988 , will have seen their investment swell to £4,267 . |
| 11 | For the past two years it has allowed our PCs and Macintoshes to share data in a wide range of formats without any hassle at all . |
| 12 | For the past five years she has devoted herself to the United Nations Children 's Fund and became its ambassador in an effort to help the world 's sick and starving children . |
| 13 | After all , if anyone has flourished in the past 13 years it has been the supermarkets . |
| 14 | It just so happens that for the past sixty years it has been . |
| 15 | Over the past eight years it has halved in size ( from 6500 staff in 30 institutes ) and simultaneously it has changed its entire research strategy . |
| 16 | In the past six years he has represented himself before 34 High Court judges , 25 Masters , 14 Registrars , four stipendary magistrates , two Justices of the Peace , and four Scottish sheriffs Yesterday was his 239th court appearance . |
| 17 | For the past 26 years he has worked in the offices at the Courtaulds Chemicals power station on the Spondon site . |
| 18 | But now the solar influence is beginning to turn around to contribute a further warming influence up to the year 2010 , boosting the greenhouse effect where for the past 30 years it has been counterbalancing it . |
| 19 | As breeder and exhibitor of budgerigars for the past 12 years he finds the joke wearing thin , but it has n't dampened his enthusiasm for his hobby . |
| 20 | During the past few years she has been forced to endure : — A break-in at her home and the loss of £5,500 ; — A series of raids on her office which eventually prompted the company to move elsewhere in the town ; — Drunks breaking into the company headquarters to sleep off their drinking binges ; — Car theft and vehicle damage . |
| 21 | In the past few years it has suffered from serious errors in planning and a lack of investment . |
| 22 | Critics of multimedia say that it is a solution looking for a problem , but during the past few years it has delivered many useful applications , some of them in the financial sector . |
| 23 | Over the past few years it has become increasingly evident that the UK is witnessing a transformation in dominant household forms . |
| 24 | In the past few years it has become clear that the small intestine is also damaged by NSAIDs . |
| 25 | ‘ Over the past few years it 's been your petal frilly or your heart-shaped frilly . |
| 26 | For the past few years he has been joined in aspects of his research and conservation work by Dr Jane O'Sullivan , an agricultural scientist with an interest in the relationship between humanity and the natural world . |
| 27 | Over the past three years it has received 11 visits from the Sudbury-based charity group Christian Cargo . |
| 28 | For the past three years he has been building LDP 's contract business in the South of England . |
| 29 | For the past 20 years he has sent out a nature news sheet every few weeks , detailing his observations of birds , butterflies and flowers , illustrated with his own hand coloured drawings . |
| 30 | In the past 25 years he has also been responsible for the construction of the mortality tables produced by the Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau for use by the life offices and has also taken an active part in the development of a new method of analysing sickness insurance statistics . |