Example sentences of "in [art] last [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have charted complex changes since 1000 BC , showing that even in the last 1500 years the area has evolved from a series of tidal inlets , through the development of spits and dunes , to the triangular area that it is today , with the vast recent pebble dumps of Dungeness . |
| 2 | It is most unlikely that either of these areas has been used for arable in the last 1500 years , and this is confirmed to some extent by field names recorded on the earliest maps ( of the early nineteenth century ) and in medieval documents . |
| 3 | In newly-published research , two American scientists claim the eruption of Toba in Sumatra 73,500 years ago — the largest in the last million years and five times bigger than Tambora — may have caused a global cooling of 3-5C . |
| 4 | To each of these may be added another if we count the faunal extinctions brought about by man in the last million years or so . |
| 5 | But the 10 year old from Milton Keynes has already rejected two kidney transplants in the last 4 years . |
| 6 | I have been depressed about life in the Eighties , the way the economy has gone in the last twelve years . |
| 7 | In the last twelve years of her reign the war cost £3 ½ m. , to which parliamentary grants , benevolences , and forced loans contributed about £1,800,000 . |
| 8 | This developing experience was at that time still a precarious feature : in the last twelve years of Edward I , after all , several parliaments met without any shire or borough representatives being summoned . |
| 9 | Local initiative and pluralism , growth of decision-making centres , and space for individual/group autonomy would promote an active citizenry as opposed to individuals set apart from the authoritative state which has grown under the Conservatives in the last twelve years . |
| 10 | Very quickly in , what , what can I say , I mean it 's an appalling situation where you have a political party that believes that it can solve all the ills of these the country that it has created in the last twelve years , I hope on the explicit though I tend to think renunciations are fairly clear here , but erm I hope you 'll listen . |
| 11 | Fifty-five people have been killed in the last twelve years . |
| 12 | Well , I always look north on a dark night and I think that twice in the last twelve years . |
| 13 | Membership , for example , has doubled in the last five years . |
| 14 | It has produced a 25 per cent compound growth in earnings per share in the last five years . |
| 15 | Yet the output is little over half what it was in the last five years before 1939 . |
| 16 | When it comes to clothes and the British high street , I think the standard has dropped radically in the last five years . |
| 17 | Devon is always a happy hunting ground for Pipe , who has saddled twice as many winners as any other trainer in the last five years here . |
| 18 | Devon is always a happy hunting ground for Pipe , who has saddled twice as many winners as any other trainer in the last five years here . |
| 19 | Genetic engineering , in the last five years , has thrown up far bolder visions and far darker threats . |
| 20 | Most herds are tested for TB every three years but the Rowes ' cattle have been tested 14 times in the last five years . |
| 21 | The Channel Tunnel has been a great source of work , but not profits , in the last five years . |
| 22 | Colour printers have spread rapidly in the last five years as their price has fallen . |
| 23 | The good response mirrored our picture of the typical diesel owner : 95 per cent have maximum no-claims bonus , and have not had an accident in the last five years . ’ |
| 24 | He explained how he had smuggled £175.4 million into Germany in the last five years . |
| 25 | Glen Lyons , consultant trichologist at the Philip Kingsley Clinic , says : ‘ In the last five years I 've noticed a dramatic increase in the number of women suffering from hair and scalp conditions , particularly the speeding up of genetic hair loss . |
| 26 | It should also indicate the warning signs that you might look for such as : changed job frequently in the last five years , no sense of humour , over concerned with financial rewards . |
| 27 | Their numbers have dropped noticeably in the last five years and very dramatically since the 1880s , when 70 per cent of all cattle in the Netherlands were Groningens while Friesians represented only 18 per cent and were mainly restricted to Friesland and Drenthe . |
| 28 | In the last five years there has been a clear commitment from the Nursery/First , Middle and Comprehensive schools to work in a co-operative and supportive way , resulting in a pyramid of schools developing coherence and continuity for young people in the area from the ages 3–16 . |
| 29 | In the last five years evaluation has received much attention in UK academic libraries and particularly in parts of the research projects sponsored by the BLR&DD . |
| 30 | A major feature in UK user education ( particularly in the last five years ) has been the many hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on research and development . |