Example sentences of "last [adj] year we " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last few years we have been promised ( and in the UK have never actually been given ) ready-made video programmes on EVR , requiring one set of equipment , and on videodisc , requiring another . |
| 2 | Over the last few years we had worked out a system of radio communication and coded grid references for use in joint exercises and actual operations against smuggling . |
| 3 | What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those . |
| 4 | ‘ For the last few years we have been seriously handicapped by the fact that our second team have been unable to compete regularly against quality opposition . |
| 5 | but now this last few years we , it 's a lot warmer winter than we , than we remember at the beginning |
| 6 | ‘ In the last 10 years we 've created more jobs than ever before , higher living standards than ever before , better social services than ever before , higher living … |
| 7 | No , because over the last six years we 've actually gone from bottom of the pile to tenth from bottom . |
| 8 | Charlton co-manager Alan Curbishley admitted that his side were on a worrying downward trend but pointed out : ‘ In the last three years we have sold players worth more than £4 million and spent only Pounds 450,000 . |
| 9 | Indeed , we always try to give the benefit of the doubt , and the hon. Gentleman may be interested to know that in the last three years we have received 577 claims and have settled 372 of them . |
| 10 | In the last three years we have been operating a programme of capital grants designed to assist governing bodies and their area associations gain access to facilities suitable for the standard of competition immediately below national level and serving major areas of Scotland . |
| 11 | In the last three years we have opened three brand new laboratories : at Colchester , serving rigid packaging and tubes ; at Bristol , with a new complex for flexible packaging scientists ; and at Muscatine , Iowa , which is our largest plastic tubes plant . |
| 12 | I mean , we 've been all round but the last three years we 've stayed at Carlton |
| 13 | … Over the last ten years we 've built up a pretty good network . |
| 14 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
| 15 | Prof David Brock , of the university 's department of human genetics , said : ‘ Over the last ten years we have been very successful in finding defective genes . |
| 16 | In the last ten years we have seen a fifty percent rise in serious and fatal accidents , at whose expense colleagues ? |
| 17 | ‘ Over the last five years we have had a quiet revolution in vocational education in Scotland , and today we should celebrate that . |
| 18 | In the last fifteen years we 've been a country where law had little to do with Labour relations . |
| 19 | During the last 13 years we have cut , simplified or abolished a whole range of direct taxes . |
| 20 | But the fact remains that for the last 13 years we have been governed by a party rejected by nearly 60pc of voters . |
| 21 | Over the last 8 years we have raised over £34,000 for Christian Aid . |
| 22 | I will have more to say about family life in the next chapter , here I note merely that in the last twenty years we have seen the large-scale establishment of the single-parent family , the so-called serial-monogamy syndrome ( divorced people keep getting remarried ) and an endless chain of step-children and step/half brothers and sisters . |
| 23 | As Frank Bell pointed out , ‘ Over the last twenty years we have strived to provide a Quality Service . |
| 24 | For the last 60 years we have been organising holidays to Italy , and only to Italy . |
| 25 | ‘ The last several years we 've stood by while Europe spent $26 billion to develop Airbus to push Americans out of work , ’ he said . |
| 26 | ‘ In the last four years we have been asked to believe too many coincidences . |
| 27 | Over the last four years we have consistently moaned , we have passed resolutions at planning , asking committees to consider , and nothing has been done . |
| 28 | ‘ In the last financial year we were delighted to be the second most profitable group in the network , ’ he explained . |
| 29 | ‘ Last financial year we had a turnover of about £16m so it is apparent how significant the contract is , ’ he said . |
| 30 | ‘ By lowering our costs over the last two years we feel we can now pass some of those savings on to customers . ’ |