Example sentences of "past [adj] years [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they can , they are much more cautious as a result of the experience of the past few years than they have ever been . |
| 2 | Does the Secretary of State not accept that our valley councils have lost more in rate support grant over the past 10 years than he has given them in new money in the latest package ? |
| 3 | of men working full-time has never been wider in the past 100 years than it is today . |
| 4 | The Governor , Joseph Ada , said that the Guamian people had been held in " serfdom " for the past 91 years while its neighbour states had gained independence . |
| 5 | There has been a Europeanisation of academic life over the past 20 years since I had the good luck to be appointed to Edinburgh 's Regius Chair of Public Law . |
| 6 | ‘ And in a perverse way this is something which may be helpful because they are now beginning to appreciate more clearly the fear that has existed within the Protestant community for the past 20 years as they have been killed at random by the IRA , ’ he added . |