Example sentences of "[n mass] in [art] past [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of 77 trips aboard specially commandeered aircraft in the past two years , Sununu had designated only four as unofficial . |
| 2 | Income has dropped by £80million in the past 2 years and travellers will have to help bail them out . |
| 3 | He 's given them £342,000 in the past five years to create the ‘ right business environment ’ . |
| 4 | The 11-year-old tearaway , who has netted £150,000 in the past two years , was nicked after a pub raid . |
| 5 | WWF also hopes to control the amount of waste water flowing into the Danube ; pollution has wiped out 70 of the river 's 110 species of fish in the past 10 years and is threatening the ecosystem of the Black Sea . |
| 6 | True , industrial economies ' output was flat in 1991 and grew by only 1.5% in 1992 , while Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union suffered a serious slump , but in the developing world output has grown by an average of no less than 5% in the past two years , as many economies in Asia and Latin America have boomed . |
| 7 | In the wake of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro , a damning report from English Nature shows that ancient woodlands have declined by nearly 50% in the past 50 years — that is faster than the felling of the rainforests in Brazil . |
| 8 | Fiat , whose market share in Italy has slid from around 60% to 44% in the past four years , said on May 25th that it will ask the Italian government for more financial help with temporary lay-offs , because of the slump in European car sales . |
| 9 | But the police have killed 46 people in the past five years , including 12 last year . |
| 10 | Whilst numbers of full-time farmers had fallen by 28% in the past ten years there had only been an 8% reduction in the number of part-time farmers . |
| 11 | Prices have fallen from £700 per drive to under £300 in the past two years and could fall to perhaps £100 , forced down by competition from Asian producers . |
| 12 | Reiser recently acknowledged in a New York court that his private corporation , in which he and his wife are sole shareholders , has grossed roughly $400000 in the past few years . |