Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [art] past [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is intended to approach this by studying : — their patenting activity by means of patents granted to them in the United States in the past 25 years ; this will indicate the areas where the industries/economies of each country — and their research/innovative activity appears to be strongest ; — the adoption of the selected major postwar innovations and their diffusion in the industries of each of the countries covered ; — their performance in ‘ high-technology ’ areas ; — certain indicators of the countries ' energy economics ; — and possibly assess their productivity level in comparison with some West European countries ; Economic research institutes in Sofia , Prague , Budapest and Warsaw will cooperate by providing — where necessary — the technical and statistical information required . |
| 2 | There are two views of what has happened in Russia in the past few years . |
| 3 | The meeting began with a minute 's silence for those who had died in Northern Ireland in the past 23 years . |
| 4 | Reynolds said that despite the considerable economic progress made by Ireland in the past three years , the size of the national debt [ see below ] continued to be a major constraint upon development and prevented further tax concessions . |
| 5 | He is the third man to be murdered on the corner of the Donegall Road and the Falls Road in the past two years . |
| 6 | The latest letter-bomb attack on the Canadian High Commission in Trafalgar Square , London comes after a spate of raids in Canada in the past two years . |
| 7 | Yeadon are one of the foremost manufacturers and installers of structures in North America , having installed 400 air halls in that country and Canada in the past 20 years , including a structure for the Canadian Tennis Association in Toronto . |
| 8 | Can he give any indication of whether at that meeting he expressed the British Government 's support for the United Nations human rights sub-commission report in relation to the expressions of concern about the violations of human rights in Tibet , and what proposals did he make to help the many thousands who have been refugees from Tibet in the past 30 years ? |
| 9 | One of the most advanced initiatives in the area of pre-school and special needs is Portage which has spread dramatically throughout the UK in the past 12 years . |
| 10 | He has been on nearly two dozen foreign trips on behalf of LA in the past few years and some of his questionable financial dealings have been investigated . |
| 11 | A MURDERER has struck 16,636 times in London 's West End in the past 40 years , yet the mystery attacker is still at large . |
| 12 | increase in robberies on Merseyside in the past 13 years , does the Minister agree that the freeing of police officers through the civilianisation of posts should give Merseyside police the chance to put more policemen back on to the beat ? |
| 13 | He has been in , and safely out of , Cambodia , Afghanistan , El Salvador , the Middle East and Yugoslavia in the past six years . |
| 14 | According to a report published on Dec. 5 by the human rights organization Amnesty International , more than 5,000 people had been executed in Iran in the past three years , including some 2,500 during the last six months of 1988 coinciding with a crackdown on left-wing dissidents [ see pp. 36630-31 ] . |
| 15 | Biologists believe the same benthic algae may have been responsible for animal deaths on Loch Lubnaig , near Callander , not far from my Stirling home , and at Loch Insh on Speyside in the past two years . |
| 16 | The agency has given a total of £1.5m towards emergency relief programmes in southern Sudan in the past six years . |
| 17 | ‘ Six murderers have been sent to Whitely in the past three years , ’ he said . |