Example sentences of "the last [adj] years he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that in the last two years he had met very few institutions which had not cut back their system budgets following the 1987 crash in share prices in the stock market . |
| 2 | For the last two years he had been in practice in Northampton , and he did not at that stage wish to endanger his prospects there by letting his application to Bedford be generally known ; if Whitbread gave his support however , Thackeray would ‘ make his pretensions public ’ . |
| 3 | For the last two years he 's covered the City of London Festival , a smaller version of the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 4 | For the last two years he 's covered the City of London Festival , a smaller version of the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 5 | For the last two years he has been a hospital porter . |
| 6 | In the last six years he had seen her occasionally — in the street , at the Ritz ( Plumford 's only cinema , which was known locally as the Fleapit ) and once at a party . |
| 7 | For the last six years he has been assistant curate at St. Barnabas ' Church in Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , and he will be instituted as vicar of Saltburn in July . |
| 8 | For the last nine years he has lived outside work time as a brunette , Diane , and has helped counsel others . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And in the last five years he 's too old to do it . |
| 11 | And for the last five years he had been doing just that . |
| 12 | In the last ten years he has used a prostitute about 20 times . |
| 13 | Looking back over the last 19 years he said : ‘ Having had the opportunity to set up and develop the education service in Lothian has been enormously challenging and satisfying and I believe it is an education service of good quality with many forward-looking policies now established . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Over the last few years he has discussed many confidential matters with Prince Charles who has regularly visited his practice near Sloane Street . |
| 16 | He was not sure how she would take it , leaving the house before they had intended and moving up north ; also , in the last few years he had got into the habit of sparing her any unnecessary decisions or arguments . |