Example sentences of "past [num] years [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | what is the point of asking a middle ranking executive about his greatest achievement at work in the past 10 years when he has probably been locked into office procedures laid down by senior management and where his scope for initiative has been restricted . |
| 2 | And I 'm sure that this report on the health action area is going to show some fairly , erm give us some fairly staggering erm revelations about about the health of Oxford citizens that 's going to surprise people at large when they find out how badly people have fared over the past ten years when we 've had the Tories in office who 've really done their very , very best to make the health divide of this country in a very poor state . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | If there are lessons that can be drawn from the past four years then they are probably the following . |
| 5 | This ranks as one of the few occasions in the past 20 years when I have forked out for a little bottle . |
| 6 | One of the most important trends of the past 20 years in HE has been the increased participation of women . |