Example sentences of "the past [adj] years it " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past 100 years it has ejected more than 1,000 tonnes of chlorine into the atmosphere every day . |
| 2 | In the past two years it has become much harder in America to use the private method of dealing with distress . |
| 3 | In the past two years it has grown by more than 35 per cent , and anyone who put in £3,000 when it was launched , in April 1988 , will have seen their investment swell to £4,267 . |
| 4 | For the past two years it has allowed our PCs and Macintoshes to share data in a wide range of formats without any hassle at all . |
| 5 | After all , if anyone has flourished in the past 13 years it has been the supermarkets . |
| 6 | It just so happens that for the past sixty years it has been . |
| 7 | Over the past eight years it has halved in size ( from 6500 staff in 30 institutes ) and simultaneously it has changed its entire research strategy . |
| 8 | But now the solar influence is beginning to turn around to contribute a further warming influence up to the year 2010 , boosting the greenhouse effect where for the past 30 years it has been counterbalancing it . |
| 9 | In the past few years it has suffered from serious errors in planning and a lack of investment . |
| 10 | Critics of multimedia say that it is a solution looking for a problem , but during the past few years it has delivered many useful applications , some of them in the financial sector . |
| 11 | Over the past few years it has become increasingly evident that the UK is witnessing a transformation in dominant household forms . |
| 12 | In the past few years it has become clear that the small intestine is also damaged by NSAIDs . |
| 13 | ‘ Over the past few years it 's been your petal frilly or your heart-shaped frilly . |
| 14 | Over the past three years it has received 11 visits from the Sudbury-based charity group Christian Cargo . |
| 15 | A new one is made every year and for the past 25 years it 's been engraved at the same Birmingham workshop . |
| 16 | Rather , over the past twenty years it has created discrete areas of fashion which do not automatically seek to emulate or follow one another . |
| 17 | Over the past ten years it has been government policy to encourage this ( DHSS , 1976a ) . |
| 18 | But the International Air Tattoo does n't just help those who 've served with the RAF — for the past ten years it 's been helping disabled people learn to fly . |
| 19 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |