Example sentences of "last [num] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the last 1.5 million years , our planet has been in the grip of an ice age . |
| 2 | Now that the work has been completed I hope the church will continue to attract pilgrims to the shrine of St Melangell , as it has for the last eight hundred years . |
| 3 | Yet a good deal of this diversification probably happened in the last 70 million years , during the Tertiary . |
| 4 | Again there was a trend to increasing size , and they ultimately became the predominant land animal , expanding territorially during the last 70 million years of Paleozoic history and preying on the abundance of insects . |
| 5 | It 's simply not good enough for them to say , as they have for the last forty five years , elect us , we 'll change everything and then things will be alright . |
| 6 | Exactly , unless they guarantee human rights er , you see , what 's really happening especially in the Baltic , that is er there , there is an anti Russian feeling you know , and er there is element in in the Baltic Republic who want to er , want to deport the Russian population who 've been there for maybe for the last forty five years . |
| 7 | Although the number of species may have been at least approximately the same in marine environments for the last 300 million years or so the kinds of fossils have changed repeatedly , so that , for example , in marine limestones of Silurian age the shelled brachiopods may number dozens of species , whereas in similar looking limestones of Eocene age no brachiopods at all can be found , but there may be as many species of gastropods of kinds unknown in Silurian rocks . |
| 8 | It has been widely argued ( but see later ) that within the lowland Neotropics , the fragmentation of populations took place as a result of climatic and associated vegetational changes in the last 2 million years . |
| 9 | Croll failed in arithmetic but as it was acknowledged by Lord Kelvin that he had calculated the precession of the equinoxes over the last 10 million years , his mathematical ability was accepted . |
| 10 | In the last 10 000 years the sea rose slightly to its present level . |
| 11 | Can I ask over the last six seven years what local companies have funded the playhouse and to what level ? and how many of actually withdrawn and the reasons why they actually withdrawn ? |
| 12 | Most of the material is injected in the form of dykes which do n't reach the surface , and it 's been estimated that the total thickness of dykes intruded in the last ninety million years is over 400 kilometres ! |
| 13 | The enrichment of the Library 's printed collections by selecting appropriately from the constant flow of new knowledge , as well as completing gaps in those publications already represented in the collections built up over the last three hundred years of the Library 's development , is of paramount importance for scholars and researchers . |
| 14 | By the middle decades of the century the " old diplomacy " as it had evolved over the last three hundred years , with its easy-going and cosmopolitan atmosphere , its often short hours of work , its extensive use of unpaid or inadequately paid diplomats , its almost complete immunity from effective public scrutiny , was under increasing pressure . |
| 15 | There will no longer be a requirement to include an accountant 's report in listing particulars or circulars unless there has been a significant change in the company 's financial position within the last three financial years , or its accounts in any of those three years have been qualified . |
| 16 | I was frozen in a glacier for the last three million years . |
| 17 | It is not too much to say that , throughout the last three critical years in China , it is to Dr Morrison that the British public has looked from day to day for the earliest and most accurate intelligence concerning events in which the interests of this country have been so largely involved . ’ |
| 18 | Er passenger transport , er we have over the last three four years er taken sort of er in passenger transport . |
| 19 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 20 | Some idea of the importance of change may be got from the fact that the Mississippi has built seven major lobes in the last 5 000 years and that the last of these lobes has six sub-deltas , of which the West Bay sub-delta is one . |
| 21 | The apprentices from RAF Halton In Buckinghamshire have been keeping the air force flying for the last seventy two years . |
| 22 | And that is how I have got along for the last sixty six years . |
| 23 | It is instructive to note that relative newcomers to the dinosaur scene , the mosasaurs ( the violent giant aquatic lizards referred to in Chapter 3 , who appeared in the last 25 million years of the Cretaceous ) , showed evidence of mammalian-like illnesses . |
| 24 | Before commencing it should be emphasized that when a geologist talks of a volcano having been recently active , he means that it has been active within the last ten thousand years . |
| 25 | But in the course of the last ten thousand years , we have developed written language . |
| 26 | There has been no significant biological evolution , or change in human DNA , in the last ten thousand years . |
| 27 | What we do know is that , particularly in the lower reaches of the rivers , they have suffered in the time that man has been around in Sussex , in say the last ten thousand years , very , very dramatic changes . |
| 28 | Yeah Now Pomerance , who 's one of the people in the quote , has done a lot of work recently er by that in the last five six years , looking at how we can investigate the , or objectify , the measures that w or the laws that were used by the . |
| 29 | The finding of archaeology that over the last five thousand years men of the most diverse civilizations have invariably set the highest values on substances which , however attractive aesthetically , were nevertheless useless for purposes of daily life , coincides with the observation of North American society during the last quarter of the nineteenth century made by Thorstein Veblen and embodied in his classic book The Theory of the Leisure Class , originally published in 1899.5 Although composed with the animus and spleen of a man condemned by his personality to a life of persistent failure , Veblen produced a book hilarious in style but of quite brilliant perversity . |
| 30 | In the course of the last five thousand years a wide variety of stones other than jade have been highly esteemed for jewellery , insignia , seals and the embellishment of personal weapons . |