Example sentences of "the past ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 2 | This clinging to authority has , in my experience , become noticeable in graduate students and young academics in the past ten years or so . |
| 3 | There has been a flurry of colourful rumours over the sale of Irises in the past ten days . |
| 4 | Because of the political impasse over the past ten years Cambodia , one of the poorest countries in the world , has received no UN development aid , nor any bilateral or multilateral development aid from the UK . |
| 5 | But the system does not , so far , recognise brain injury , despite the enormous advances over the past ten years in the study of cognitive , behavioural and memory problems . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Erik Sondén , the managing director of SIPA , points out that in the tiny Swedish market values of investment properties have gone only one way over the past ten years : up . |
| 7 | Partly because it is profitable : its pre-tax profits have tripled over the past ten years , to £604m ( $980m ) on sales of £5.6 billion ( in some 30 countries ) in the year to March 1990 . |
| 8 | All of this happened during the past ten years . |
| 9 | Despite the changes of the past ten years or so , there is little sign in France of an active takeover market . |
| 10 | The 1991 season promises at least seven big-studio releases by black directors , more than in the past ten years . |
| 11 | But there is no word that Saddam Hussein is ready to return to his own people the $10 billion he is accused of looting from them by skimming Iraq 's oil revenue for the past ten years and taking kickbacks from foreign contractors . |
| 12 | The Kroll investigation also found that over the past ten years some $10 billion had either been salted away in banks or used to buy shares of western companies . |
| 13 | Although the public subsidy has been halved in the past ten years , the growth of passenger traffic has stalled with the recession . |
| 14 | In the past ten years P&G has dealt with 150,000 letters and telephone-calls about satanism and soap powder . |
| 15 | The history of the past ten years has seen Labour consistently oppose any change inside the health service and , even more regrettably , has often seen groups inside it resist reform on the grounds that their vested interests are being challenged . |
| 16 | I 've been a virgin for the past ten years . |
| 17 | Yes , probably , but it did not lessen her joy in the past ten years of leisured , ladylike existence and in the arrival of innumerable small parcels . |
| 18 | Whilst numbers of full-time farmers had fallen by 28% in the past ten years there had only been an 8% reduction in the number of part-time farmers . |
| 19 | Over the past ten years recorded crime has risen faster than at any time in our history . |
| 20 | Its windows and doors had been sealed up with breeze-blocks but the Koranic inscription beneath the roof remained and someone had painted it in the past ten years . |
| 21 | On the contrary , what is happening , and has been happening over the past ten years or so , raises very serious questions indeed . |
| 22 | After all , the leading ministers had been continuously in office for the past ten years , and had achieved many of their declared objectives . |
| 23 | Ella Bembridge was a formidably hearty spinster of fifty-five who had lived , with a wilting friend of much the same age , in a small cottage on the Lulling corner of Thrush Green for the past ten years . |
| 24 | However , while these dollar values are better than dinar values for the years up to 1983 , they are still not satisfactory , both for the reason given above and because the real value of the dollar has fluctuated considerably during the past ten years . |
| 25 | Sister Linda Buckland , who has been at the General for the past ten years , expressed mixed emotions . |
| 26 | It opened with his favourite theme : ‘ During the past ten years the system of standing Cabinet Committees has proved its value as a means of relieving the Cabinet of a great weight of less important business . ’ |
| 27 | Much of the controversy which has arisen over land use during the past ten years has centred on the changing balance of power between planners and developers . |
| 28 | The growth of out-of-town retailing has been a particularly contentious issue in the past ten years , not only for its potentially adverse effects on urban shopping centres but also because of the resulting development pressures on fringe and green field sites . |
| 29 | Recent surveys by the National Science Teachers Association ( NSTA ) show an 80 per cent decline over the past ten years in the number of maths and science teachers turned out by colleges and universities . |
| 30 | In the past ten years , Japanese people have gone overboard for squid , consuming half a million tonnes annually . |