Example sentences of "last [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as attending most Easter Courses for the last eleven years I have assisted at Guide Camps for even longer enjoying at least one week a year far removed from houses , telephones and television — what bliss ! |
| 2 | Today the big draught breeds , especially in the Massif Central , have found new roles in the beef industry and over the last few years they have been exported in increasing numbers to boost beef production in several parts of the world , sometimes displacing some of the famous traditional British beef breeds . |
| 3 | The last few years they had been more apart , until in 1969 they both rediscovered each other in one of the first Women 's Liberation groups in London . |
| 4 | Over the last few years they have simply been brought into line with demand . |
| 5 | For the last few years they had only discussed their respective businesses and he had listened to his father 's bitter complaints about hunt saboteurs . |
| 6 | Mind you , I think the last few years they they 'd sort of erm relaxed a bit more |
| 7 | They 've always had links with industry and commerce , but over the last few years they 've recognised the need to develop and publicise their links . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | but now this last few years we , it 's a lot warmer winter than we , than we remember at the beginning |
| 13 | But during these last few years she had felt tired , weary . |
| 14 | The economy has been so strong in the last few years it 's going to take a lot to bring it down . ’ |
| 15 | In the last few years it has become clear that many other churches are working in this way in every denomination . |
| 16 | For the last few years it was held up by 20 players of outstanding international standard and we did not realise that technically we were dying ’ . |
| 17 | In the last few years it has been appreciated by the House of Commons that the method of scrutiny chosen was not best adapted to influence the final shape of Community legislation . |
| 18 | It was really only a very small group of students involved , but they got a lot of publicity and I think over the last few years it 's changed quite a lot . |
| 19 | For the last few years I have sat on the sidelines watching bolt-protected climbing mushrooming throughout the USA , Europe and , not least , Britain : in quarries , but also , let's be completely truthful , on natural crags . |
| 20 | In the last few years I have done a lot of float fishing from a punt for big bream and I can state quite categorically that , if it is done correctly , it can be a most deadly method of catching bream . |
| 21 | But it turned out to be an endless task and , as a result , for the last few years I 've been learning phrasings from all kinds of foreign instruments . |
| 22 | Over the last few years I have also complained to the Press Council on a number of occasions , about various newspapers using such terms as ‘ Gay Plague ’ , or saying that the disease was spread by whispered conversations , or for exaggerating the amount of money spent by local authorities on gay issues . |
| 23 | Ideally I would like to work part-time , and have written to you as in the last few years I have seen part-time posts advertised at Prentice 's . |
| 24 | Over the last few years I have actively participated in various Black women 's activities . |
| 25 | Generally my fish are too healthy to require treatment , but in the last few years I have been able to buy fish as they arrive in the country ( usually via the large fish shows . ) |
| 26 | Over the last few years I can admit to having heard enough of the individual experiences of examination candidates to make me totally cynical about a system which confers , supposedly , passes and grades of equal status on students in public examinations that cover so wide-ranging a diversity of structure and subject content . |
| 27 | Every August or early September for the last few years I have been lucky enough to receive a present of ripe mulberries from a magnificent old tree in the garden of Rainham Hall in Essex . |
| 28 | Sometimes erm given me the questions and sometimes answering the questions for me , its always informing me and over the last few years I 've erm , I said that to try and understand erm , how to use this information in my own work as , as a writer , and I see , I see parallels in all forms of art , communication is of course one , erm and the need to recognise and respond the plight of others is , is another area and the area that as a writer I 'm particularly drawn too . |
| 29 | I 've knocked about a bit in the last few years I suppose , but I was always restless until I came to a very ordinary house in a rather dingy London suburb , where there was a large and interesting family who had been in the same place for a long time . |
| 30 | But I mean in terms of knitwear over the last few years I can give you one or two examples which I think you 'll readily er understand . |