Example sentences of "past [adj] years [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past fifty years there has been a massive expansion in the extent and importance of fraud . |
| 2 | Furthermore , for the past fifty years there has been a more or less perpetual state of international crisis , with America constantly involved as a leading player . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'm a widow of 70 and for the past eight years there 's been a very persistent man in my life . |
| 5 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |
| 6 | During the past few years there has been an upsurge of interest in the use of open ended investigative work in science with pupils of all ages . |
| 7 | Over the past few years there has been increasing interest in the biological characteristics of biliary and gall bladder epithelial cells in an attempt to enhance our understanding of diseases affecting the biliary tree . |
| 8 | During the past few years she has been forced to endure : — A break-in at her home and the loss of £5,500 ; — A series of raids on her office which eventually prompted the company to move elsewhere in the town ; — Drunks breaking into the company headquarters to sleep off their drinking binges ; — Car theft and vehicle damage . |
| 9 | For the past few years he has been joined in aspects of his research and conservation work by Dr Jane O'Sullivan , an agricultural scientist with an interest in the relationship between humanity and the natural world . |
| 10 | ‘ Over the past few years it 's been your petal frilly or your heart-shaped frilly . |
| 11 | In the past few years it has suffered from serious errors in planning and a lack of investment . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Over the past few years it has become increasingly evident that the UK is witnessing a transformation in dominant household forms . |
| 14 | In the past few years it has become clear that the small intestine is also damaged by NSAIDs . |
| 15 | In fact , although over the past forty years there has been a major transformation of the Yugoslav economy , inter-regional differences are at least as great as they were before , and in some cases even greater . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Over the past 30 years there has been a sprinkling of repairable incidents and three Spitfires totally lost with pilot fatality . |
| 18 | As breeder and exhibitor of budgerigars for the past 12 years he finds the joke wearing thin , but it has n't dampened his enthusiasm for his hobby . |
| 19 | in real terms under the last Labour Government , whereas in the past 12 years there has been an increase of more than 19 per cent . |
| 20 | For the past 26 years he has worked in the offices at the Courtaulds Chemicals power station on the Spondon site . |
| 21 | In the past six years he has represented himself before 34 High Court judges , 25 Masters , 14 Registrars , four stipendary magistrates , two Justices of the Peace , and four Scottish sheriffs Yesterday was his 239th court appearance . |
| 22 | It is the accuracy of the results of STPS monitoring projects on Zakynthos for the past 10 years which allows Mr Scott 's source , Mrs Lily Venizelos , to talk about the situation there like an expert . |
| 23 | I repeat that in the past 10 years there has been a devolution of power down into the regions right across Europe , not only inside the EC . |
| 24 | For the past 100 years it has ejected more than 1,000 tonnes of chlorine into the atmosphere every day . |
| 25 | This is vintage Saddam : over the past 21 years he has swung between killing Iraqi Kurds and offering them more self-rule than the Kurds in Turkey , Iran or Syria can dream of . |
| 26 | For the past three years he has been building LDP 's contract business in the South of England . |
| 27 | Over the past three years it has received 11 visits from the Sudbury-based charity group Christian Cargo . |
| 28 | It just so happens that for the past sixty years it has been . |
| 29 | In the past 25 years he has also been responsible for the construction of the mortality tables produced by the Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau for use by the life offices and has also taken an active part in the development of a new method of analysing sickness insurance statistics . |
| 30 | A new one is made every year and for the past 25 years it 's been engraved at the same Birmingham workshop . |