Example sentences of "for the [adj] few year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Self-employed John , 48 , from Dublin said : ‘ I 've been in the international scene for the past few years . |
| 2 | For the past few years , the death count has been running at roughly 10 a day , with blood feuds and general gangsterism adding to the mayhem . |
| 3 | For the past few years , the death count has been running at roughly 10 a day , with blood feuds and general gangsterism adding to the mayhem . |
| 4 | Goldman Sachs says its private-placement business in Europe has doubled every year for the past few years . |
| 5 | It seemed that not only the president , but the whole country , might have been in some delightful lotus-sleep for the past few years . |
| 6 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 7 | Many beekeepers have been examining their bees carefully for the past few years in efforts to find the mite . |
| 8 | In times of exchange rate volatility , such as we have been experiencing for the past few years , most overseas buyers will want to be invoiced in their own currency and avoid any exchange risk . |
| 9 | Cinestra offers a regular training programme , and for the past few years has operated a highly successful bursary scheme for new video makers which also offers practical production experience for the women they train . |
| 10 | But theorists have already been busy for the past few years working on schemes that incorporate a third force , the strong nuclear force , with electroweak theory . |
| 11 | However , the results — far from presenting a more ‘ acceptable ’ picture of English housing — bore out everything that housing experts had been warning the government about for the past few years of increasing housing cuts . |
| 12 | ‘ For the past few years I have built my life around rugby and I am happy to go on doing that until I ca n't go any further in the game ’ , he said . |
| 13 | For the past few years , Caterham has produced a new model every year , whether it be with a different engine , or new suspension or an entire new series such as the Rover K-Series . |
| 14 | Although occasionally Dutch finance companies with Antillean parents ( taxed at a turn on the interest in the Netherlands ) are still seen , for the past few years the perceived wisdom has been that the Swiss finance branch structure is superior . |
| 15 | He has played in Sicily for the past few years and has decided to renew his contract . |
| 16 | It turns out that the Heston Club team has lost a title that it had held for the past few years . |
| 17 | But the preponderance of evidence about the computer business shows that the IBM name no longer has its old magic … and it has n't for the past few years . |
| 18 | For the past few years , IBM has played the game ( in a mathematical sense ) poorly . |
| 19 | ‘ Considerable amounts are being spent on replacing them with better services , and have been for the past few years . |
| 20 | For the past few years , however , much more non-bank capital ( in the form of portfolio and direct investment ) has flowed in their direction . |
| 21 | OSF 's singular appearance changes the rules the industry has been playing by for the past few years , narrowing the gap between the two camps , and allowing more room for the players to manoeuvre . |
| 22 | For the past few years he has been joined in aspects of his research and conservation work by Dr Jane O'Sullivan , an agricultural scientist with an interest in the relationship between humanity and the natural world . |
| 23 | He was a big , bald man who had toed the papist line for the past few years under Mary , and was now willing to return to Anglicanism should that be the wish of his Bishop . |
| 24 | For the past few years the incoming information has been startlingly similar from one season to the next . |
| 25 | The wise student will at the outset of his course look at the examination papers for the past few years , and , whether compelled to or not , will write out the answers to some questions ( even though only in brief note form ) in order to gain practice in self-expression . |
| 26 | The Anglesey scheme operated for over 30 years , albeit rather intermittently for the past few years . |
| 27 | The most feverish area of research in snowboarding for the past few years has been the quest for an improved binding system — in particular a releasable binding that works . |
| 28 | I still find it difficult to talk about , though it 's been an open secret in the family for the past few years . ’ |
| 29 | What had happened to the icy indifference with which she had surveyed the world for the past few years ? |
| 30 | I do not know where he has been for the past few years , but we have reduced the rates on lower earnings so that people now pay on average about £3 a week less in national insurance . |