Example sentences of "[art] past [adj] years he " in BNC.
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| 1 | It makes sense to retain Lineker , for though his rate of scoring may have dropped considerably over the past two years he remains the only England striker of sufficient class to succeed in Italy next summer . |
| 2 | For the past two years he has begun on July 10 . |
| 3 | For the past two years he has run Colnaghi 's representative office in Paris and has been responsible for business development in Europe , Japan and South America . |
| 4 | And for the past two years he has been holed up in London . |
| 5 | ‘ This is n't the first time in the past two years he 's stalked out of our house in a jealous rage , swearing that this time our relationship is over for good . ’ |
| 6 | For the past two years he 's been dreaming of bringing the marathon to Nepal … now he 's planning the big day … |
| 7 | Lord Lane paid tribute to his ‘ team ’ of judges and revealed that over the past four years he had reviewed almost 1,500 life sentences — a task he had been unable to delegate and which he willingly relinquished to his successor , Lord Justice Taylor . |
| 8 | He had been trained in England , at Sandhurst , and for the past fifteen years he had been an officer in the Imperial Guard . |
| 9 | In the past six years he has represented himself before 34 High Court judges , 25 Masters , 14 Registrars , four stipendary magistrates , two Justices of the Peace , and four Scottish sheriffs Yesterday was his 239th court appearance . |
| 10 | For the past 26 years he has worked in the offices at the Courtaulds Chemicals power station on the Spondon site . |
| 11 | For the past 7 years he 's attended Dean Hall Special School near Cinderford . |
| 12 | As breeder and exhibitor of budgerigars for the past 12 years he finds the joke wearing thin , but it has n't dampened his enthusiasm for his hobby . |
| 13 | The Colonel always sought her out on the Thursday of her visit , and in the past few years he had , in the most circumspect manner , pressed his suit . |
| 14 | He wrote Leopold a philosophical letter which has since become famous , in which he said that over the past few years he had come to regard death as the ‘ true goal ’ of man 's existence , and that he had become so closely acquainted with this ‘ best and truest friend ’ that the image of death was no longer terrifying , but rather reassuring and consoling . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | During the past three years he had knocked as much as 40 seconds off his five-mile mark . |
| 17 | For the past three years he has been building LDP 's contract business in the South of England . |
| 18 | For the past 20 years he has sent out a nature news sheet every few weeks , detailing his observations of birds , butterflies and flowers , illustrated with his own hand coloured drawings . |
| 19 | In the past 25 years he has also been responsible for the construction of the mortality tables produced by the Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau for use by the life offices and has also taken an active part in the development of a new method of analysing sickness insurance statistics . |
| 20 | Bartram 's Observations on the Inhabitants , Climate , Soil , River , Production : from Pennsylvania to Onodaga , Oswego and the Lake Ontario had been published in London ( 1751 ) , and for the past twenty years he had dispatched his boxes of seeds and plants to be disseminated amongst owners of noteworthy gardens who acknowledged his industry . |
| 21 | For the past twenty years he had been trying to show the ‘ educated classes ’ the merits of Gothic and now found them acknowledged ‘ by the highest authorities in the land ’ . |
| 22 | During the past twenty years he has spent more and more time in Greece — and the paintings in the current exhibition of this veteran Abstract Expressionist at the ACA Galleries are the result of extended periods spent in Greece during the past two years ( 4 to 27 March ) . |
| 23 | This is vintage Saddam : over the past 21 years he has swung between killing Iraqi Kurds and offering them more self-rule than the Kurds in Turkey , Iran or Syria can dream of . |