Example sentences of "[art] past [adj] years [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN the past two years the UDA has matched the IRA death-for-death and carried out some of Ulster 's most barbaric murders . |
| 2 | The six months since Britain left the ERM have seen a more complete U-turn in British economic policy than at any time in recent memory ; and over the past two years the deterioration in the nation 's finances has also been spectacular . |
| 3 | Over the past two years the debate has veered between consolidating the remains as a war memorial and reconstructing the church ( see The Art Newspaper No. 9 , June 1991 , p.14 ) . |
| 4 | Over the past two years the number of class members attending Study Group days has fallen off considerably . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As Diane Bailey 's Curtis Cup team were chosen in 1986 that means that in four of the past five years a team have come top of the poll . |
| 8 | Over the past five years the pace of discharges from psychiatric hospitals has accelerated as elderly patients have been transferred to the community . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Over the past five years the concept of the ‘ ansaphone ’ has been extended to incorporate the idea of ‘ voice mail ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Over the past five years the executive information system has established itself as niche software in this area , but until recently the price of even PC-based EIS has prohibited their use by all but the major groups British Gas , Caledonian Airways , and the Kwik Save group , to name a few . |
| 15 | And the situation is getting worse … in the past five years the number of reported cases of serious backpain has risen by forty percent . |
| 16 | In the past four years the reaction has become probably the most widely used single technique in all branches of the biological sciences . |
| 17 | Over the past 10 years the debt of sub-Saharan countries has tripled to $180bn and these countries now hand over one third of their foreign exchange earnings in debt payments . |
| 18 | Over the past 10 years the growth of the Campaign for Real Ale has reflected the rejection by a section of the public of the mass-sale brands which the big brewers were selling in apparently uniformly decorated pubs . |
| 19 | During the past eight years the use of natural gas has been rising , but wind and solar power have also been increasing dramatically . |
| 20 | However , during the past twelve years the balance between full-time and part-time students has shifted markedly in favour of the former . |
| 21 | Over the past six years the ski season has averaged 223 days ( more than months ) per year . |
| 22 | More than once in the past 50 years the concept of readability measurement and prediction has been castigated as facile and simplistic , despite the earnest attempts of most readability researchers themselves to portray their work in a balanced and untendentious way . |
| 23 | What this broadening and wide variation demonstrates is that over the past 30 years the issue of child abuse has become symbolically and politically very powerful ( Parton , 1985 ; Nelson , 1986 ) in arguments about the welfare state and the family . |
| 24 | In the past 30 years the design and manufacture of bone china has been considerably developed and today combines the latest in ceramic technology with craft skills . |
| 25 | Over the past 30 years the region 's forest cover has fallen from 42% to less than 15% . |
| 26 | Over the past 12 years the state has had eight governors . |
| 27 | For the past 12 years the Government have behaved like latter day Don Quixotes tilting at windmills and all the other renewables . |
| 28 | During the past 12 years the Government have shown a lack of interest in regional economic policies . |
| 29 | But in the past few years a phoenix has risen from the flames of Lakehurst . |
| 30 | However , in the past few years a class of antigens has emerged that does not conform to this conventional pathway of antigen presentation . |