Example sentences of "for the past four year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British still tend to treat him with a faintly hostile embarrassment : as well they might , since for the past four years , his principal message has been condemnation of their duplicity in , as he sees it , backing away from promises to introduce democratic government by 1997 . |
| 2 | Barbara was bored with the bob she 'd had for the past four years and was ready for a complete change . |
| 3 | The tournament has been well and truly annexed by the British for the past four years , and the form book still favours a non-American winner this time . |
| 4 | That brand of it is an offshoot of the United States v Europe confrontation which has been fuelled by the Ryder Cup and spilled over now into major championships , potentially the more so at the Masters where the winners for the past four years have been British . |
| 5 | Uhlenhorst , from Germany , have held the European Cup for the past four years and during their reign only one club , Atletico Terrassa , of Spain , have maintained a challenge to this supremacy . |
| 6 | Every year for the past four years , some of the veterans I was with in Normandy have taken part in the annual Paulton memorial service . |
| 7 | Nor is this untypical ; statistics prepared for the past four years present the same picture . |
| 8 | Where else could you discover that Al Ittihad have won the Libyan League for the past four years ? |
| 9 | Dr Howe , who has treated Tony for the past four years , said : ‘ It has been discussed endlessly in the newspapers and I think it is time to let it be . ’ |
| 10 | At the end of this campaign it looked at last as if the time of peace had come , when the Council for which Anselm had been pressing for the past four years could be held with royal support . |
| 11 | Working in the WTN news room for the past four years had opened my eyes to how the media worked . |
| 12 | Mr McDermott has been the editor of this section of the Financial Times for the past four years , and has written two books on Egypt and peace keeping in the Middle East . |
| 13 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 14 | At the same time John Hogan , managing director of LASMO North Sea for the past four years , steps up to become chief operating officer . |
| 15 | The restaurant has been awarded the Les Routiers ‘ Casserole ’ of excellence for the past four years . |
| 16 | Nothing else about me seems to have been very important for the past four years ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Why should n't I , when for the past four years I 've been allowed to say nothing at all ? ’ |
| 18 | The amateur actor was born with only a third of a kidney and has been on dialysis for the past four years . |
| 19 | The Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens announced on June 16 that the government had officially tied the franc to the D-Mark , formalizing the practice it had followed for the past four years . |
| 20 | For the past four years , Nottingham has led the field in police harassment of motorists over the Christmas period , and come bottom of the league in the proportion of compulsory breath tests which proved justified . |
| 21 | Stafford Cripps , who had occupied the leading position in the League for the past four years , was particularly enthusiastic about the proposed campaign . |
| 22 | This was the obvious sequel to its policy for the past four years . |
| 23 | For the past four years Clare Radcliff has lived in RAF married quarters . |
| 24 | But one woman who should have been there could n't attend the ceremony — because she 's been under house arrest for the past four years . |
| 25 | However she was unable to attend , having been under house arrest in Burma which is ruled by the military , for the past four years . |
| 26 | Mrs Godwin and her husband had lived in the pictureque village of Spratton for the past four years . |
| 27 | They will be competing at the Haribo meet in Bonn , where the German World Cup fixture has been held for the past four years and where many world and European records have been broken . |
| 28 | It also clinched their place in the European Clubs Championship , in which they have won the silver medal for the past four years . |