Example sentences of "in the last two years " 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 | On financial grounds alone the event was a resounding success , and after two thrilling encounters in the last two years the public appetite here is established beyond doubt . |
| 3 | The cause for GM 's concern is plain when one realises that its West European operations have emerged as the biggest profit earners in the entire group , accounting for some 37.3 per cent of net income in the last two years but for only 14.6 per cent of group turnover . |
| 4 | This expectation has rather been confirmed than otherwise by the superimposition in the last two years of an element of graduation in the contribution , the additional yield of which for many years to come will mainly help to finance the standard pension but which creates a right to additions to it which will gradually build up over the next forty years on an actuarial basis . |
| 5 | Unemployment over the decade has been a disaster though the total has steadily fallen in the last two years . |
| 6 | Much is expected of him by India 's neighbours , whose relations with New Delhi deteriorated in the last two years of Rajiv Gandhi 's government . |
| 7 | Tim Reagan , a gaunt forty-year-old , who was a genius with trade unions as well as being an accountant and Peter Yeo 's right hand , moved swiftly through the secretarial problem , which was one of shortage of same , and seemed , as Peter Yeo observed pleasantly , to have been exactly the same difficulty any time in the last two years , to a discussion of building security , in which no one was much interested either . |
| 8 | But it was as nothing to the humiliation which the unions would pour on his government in the last two years of its term . |
| 9 | The public sector unions will be cross at the failure of their political favourites , and control of public sector pay has been a conspicuous government failure in the last two years . |
| 10 | Michelin is axing 16,000 jobs and has spent £460m on restructuring in the last two years . |
| 11 | In the last two years the number of contrived matches , with results achieved only by means of last-day declarations and sometimes by lollipop bowling , has grown . |
| 12 | Less than a year later the Technical Vocational Education Initiative ( TVEI ) was announced , and this , though still organized by the MSC , was a scheme that started with pupils at school , in the last two years before their compulsory attendance at school came to an end , and continued until they were 18 . |
| 13 | No member of the household has made more than two claims or made a single claim above £2,500 on home insurance in the last two years |
| 14 | Summer resorts along the coast in the last two years have lost hundreds of millions of pounds in revenue . |
| 15 | Ca n't say I 've learnt much although I 've started it again and again in the last two years . |
| 16 | This was important to her as she was self-supporting and had found it tough going in the last two years . |
| 17 | With no background in research or technology , Fabius will take his time before embarking on radical reorganisation of an area which has already been transformed in the last two years . |
| 18 | Middlesex in the last two years have carried out their preseason training at the centre . |
| 19 | ‘ In the last two years I have missed nearly everything , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Nearly two-thirds have used the same type of credit more than once in the last two years . |
| 21 | Mr Lamont said housing and construction had faced particular difficulties in the last two years . |
| 22 | And in the last two years only three children under 14 have had to be placed in secure accommodation . |
| 23 | In the last two years Guinness PLC has acquired a substantial interest in LVMH , France 's largest luxury goods company with such famous brands as Moët & Chandon champagne , Hennessy cognac , Louis Vuitton luggage and Christian Dior perfumes . |
| 24 | A new head teacher has made much difference in the last two years and the school is beginning to pick up in many ways . |
| 25 | ‘ We have had more fan mail in the last two years than we ever did in the previous 30 , ’ Gerald says . |
| 26 | Former Puma star , Marcelo Loffreda , thinks that ‘ Our rugby as a whole has deteriorated due to the way it has been managed by our officials and this crisis has made itself felt in the Pumas in the last two years . |
| 27 | In the last two years , Waddington Graphics have published , in collaboration with Pace in New York , some twenty new graphic works by Jim Dine . |
| 28 | This rate has dipped significantly in the last two years reflecting the shift in priorities of the government 's cultural policy . |
| 29 | I 've got fourteen places in the last two years and then these opens . |
| 30 | In the last two years the Sudbury auto parts factory has allowed 300 workers to leave through voluntary redundancy or early retirement , said Mr Hull . |