Example sentences of "in [art] past [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is reassuring to note that the burden which such women carry has been more widely recognised and discussed in the past 10–15 years . |
| 2 | In the UK there is no equivalent , though the spate of disasters in the past 4 years ( involving over 1000 lives lost ) has led to several calls for such a national body to be established . |
| 3 | In the past thirty years , astrophysicists have discovered dust clouds , radio signals , X-rays , electric and magnetic fields in supposedly empty space , and it is now realised that there is as much energy/matter between the stars as there is contained in them and in all the planets as well . |
| 4 | For example , the attempt in the past thirty years to incorporate more divergent factors changes the emphasis towards inductive and creative abilities . |
| 5 | History of this sort , which offers to explain the relations between properties of societies , has been enormously successful in the past thirty years or so and provides a clear conception of how the underlying interest of holism can guide social enquiry . |
| 6 | The actual differences between the highest paid and the lowest paid have in fact changed only marginally in the past thirty years , and it is still broadly true that the richest 1 per cent of income earners enjoy a gross pay which is about four times greater than they would receive if income were to be equally distributed among the total working population . |
| 7 | In the past 11 years , the publicity budget for the Department of Education and Science has gone up 28 times . |
| 8 | In the past 11 years , some of us have done precisely that , justifiably sending endless letters to the Department of the Environment . |
| 9 | In the past fifteen years , the French inflation rate has been brought into line with Germany 's , a trade imbalance has been reduced , and successive devaluations of the franc , that stressed German supremacy , have been halted . |
| 10 | The ownership and use of cars in the Netherlands has doubled in the past fifteen years . |
| 11 | The quality of state police forces varies widely and , although attempts have been made to nationalize standards and training in the past fifteen years or so , the differences may still be considerable . |
| 12 | And that includes the major issues of change and development within the labour movement itself ; the most serious indictment of all involved in trade union education in the past fifteen years is their failure to inspire a regeneration of the ideology of labour as a collective movement for democratic advance combined with the widespread dissemination of a modern organisational competence . |
| 13 | Complaints about noise have increased tenfold in the past fifteen years , and all the signs are that the problem is still getting worse . |
| 14 | Among our recent former pupils are the best Scottish Geography Graduate in the past fifteen years and a young geologist who is now a millionaire with his own oil company in Canada . |
| 15 | IN THE past 70 years or so , according to my far from faultless memory , there has been a reversal of the cowboys and Indians convention . |
| 16 | He has not grasped that world experience in the past 70 years has empirically proved that ‘ models ’ of the kind whose absence he notes — generalised socialist visions — are so many mirages . |
| 17 | Amnesty International 's report that this unholy alliance is responsible for at least 2,500 political killings in the past two years demonstrates that the Colombian authorities are more interested in waging a war on the left than on the drug cartels . |
| 18 | High winds and borrowed equipment have in the past two years reduced some events to water-borne stock-car racing , with Olympic champions disappearing in a welter of spray and shame . |
| 19 | The ‘ heroic nuns ’ — as they are described in the clandestine leaflets of the Tibetan resistance — have staged at least 12 protests in the past two years . |
| 20 | Those musical orbits described by the fertile planets of Loose Tubes and the Jazz Warriors dominated the polls , with Andy Sheppard continuing to make his individual mark as he has in the past two years . |
| 21 | The race has been won in the past two years by a Gold Cup winner-The Thinker 12 months ago after being successful at Cheltenham the previous season , while the 1985 Gold Cup hero Forgive ‘ N ’ Forget won here in 1987 . |
| 22 | The race has been won in the past two years by a Gold Cup winner-The Thinker 12 months ago after being successful at Cheltenham the previous season , while the 1985 Gold Cup hero Forgive ‘ N ’ Forget won here in 1987 . |
| 23 | Yet the officially measured real consumption in the past two years has been stronger than it should have been if the official measurement of GDP were accurate . |
| 24 | A survey last August by the Consumers Association suggested that one garden in 20 had been burgled in the past two years , and that the average value of each theft was £130 . |
| 25 | In the past two years it has become much harder in America to use the private method of dealing with distress . |
| 26 | In the past two years since its foundation , it has successfully rehomed no less than 240 dogs . |
| 27 | According to the National Institute of Agricultural Botany , blind sites are only marginally worse than in the past two years , and so far there have been no reports of problems in seed crops . |
| 28 | In the past two years , Weatherill 's sales have fallen by two-thirds and managing director Hugh Holland has cut prices by at least 15 p.c. to try to boost business . |
| 29 | Prices have fallen from £700 per drive to under £300 in the past two years and could fall to perhaps £100 , forced down by competition from Asian producers . |
| 30 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |