Example sentences of "last [adj] year [pers pn] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economy has been so strong in the last few years it 's going to take a lot to bring it down . ’ |
| 2 | For the last few years it was held up by 20 players of outstanding international standard and we did not realise that technically we were dying ’ . |
| 3 | Patricia McQuigg , the mother of one of his friends , says : ‘ Luke practically lived at my house during the last few years he was at school . |
| 4 | Yeah , I got the impression when the TV commentators were going on about the Turks being in Europe for the last 10 years they were just looking for some excuse to explain th scum 's ineptitude . |
| 5 | Erm your worships as far as the personal circumstances are concerned she is fifty nine years old , she has n't worked for the last three years she 's in receipt of invalidity benefit similarly her husband who has n't worked for the last ten or eleven years er , is on invalidity benefit . |
| 6 | So for the last three years she 's lived alone , existing on income support and other allowances totalling about £80 a week . |
| 7 | Over the last three years she 's developed a hardness that Mother never had . |
| 8 | In the last ten years it is estimated that the NRO has spent more than $50 billion , none of it accountable . |
| 9 | So I say ah , the the part must be fucking good If they last five year I 'm quite happy . |
| 10 | And in the last five years he 's too old to do it . |
| 11 | In fact long before the last five years he was copiously producing more or less fantastical inventions with which he comprehensively worked through a natural flair for parody , irony and offbeat musical humour . |
| 12 | And really the slate industry I think probably hinges on quality being maintained you know I mean li like I said I do n't want to go in you know I 'm no expert on this sort of thing but erm A deep sense of of injustice I think is that and , oh my God if if we let him start making us just you know like robots produce more and more slate and laying off some of the older craftsmen and you know they do and David Price who knows and I mean th they put that and and then they the last fifteen years it was a it was a defunct slate quarry before you know and they I mean it 's not as i it 's not an easy thing to er work slate I 'm sure it 's d difficult and you have to know what you 're doing . |
| 13 | they said exactly what you 're saying , it was n't the last twenty years it was |
| 14 | ‘ In the last financial year we were delighted to be the second most profitable group in the network , ’ he explained . |
| 15 | For the last two years he 's covered the City of London Festival , a smaller version of the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 16 | For the last two years he 's covered the City of London Festival , a smaller version of the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 17 | But field staff fear that this might not be appreciated in head-quarters where senior officials might be unfamiliar with their routine strategies : ‘ One can say that because you have n't taken any stats in the last two years it 's because you 're a good lad , and people who you may have to take stats upon know that you 're around a lot , and they know that if they 're naughty it 's a two-edged thing , you can look at it two ways . ’ |
| 18 | Within the last 20 years it was the practice here to pen the sheep for clipping and for the fleeces to be thrown up to a helper standing on the gallery , who put them at once into the barn for storage . |