Example sentences of "in [art] past five years " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a dog handler , Keith has worked with two German Shepherds in the past five years . |
| 2 | Mr John Prescott , Labour 's transport spokesman , condemned government transport policies , saying signalling staff cuts were a direct result of the 51 per cent cut in BR finances in the past five years . |
| 3 | Three out of five firms had spent nothing on training associated with new technology in the past five years . |
| 4 | But the police have killed 46 people in the past five years , including 12 last year . |
| 5 | In the past five years that has happened in fewer than 15% of the cases ; not a single officer has been found criminally liable . |
| 6 | But in the past five years the economy has been pulled along at an even faster pace than that merited by its industrial over-achievers . |
| 7 | This has been a favourite route in the past five years when Japanese companies have needed money to build new factories or buy assets abroad . |
| 8 | Yet a casino is exactly what many bosses , politicians and pundits believe to have been the home of Anglo-American corporate finance in the past five years or more : a den of greed and chance in which the only way to win is to fix the roulette wheel . |
| 9 | Its overseas staff has risen three-fold in the past five years , to 75 analysts . |
| 10 | Despite a rise in income from commercial farming in the past five years , profits have almost halved at Newcastle University 's Cockle Park farm in Northumberland . |
| 11 | It does n't have to be newly built , though we are limiting entries to machines built in the past five years . |
| 12 | In the past five years , in the eyes of many voters , the glittering promises of the Thatcher years have crumbled into ashes . |
| 13 | In the past five years my Honda Accord would n't start in Scotland ( the earth wire from the battery fell off ) and my Honda Quintet quietly conked out on the M40 ( cause never found ) . |
| 14 | In Derbyshire , the farmers who replied that their expectations had changed in the past five years were those whose sons had returned to the farm in that time . |
| 15 | Of these , 25 chose to take no part in the farm work , 2 were over 70 years of age , 4 had died in the past five years , and 3 farmers were unmarried . |
| 16 | It is reported ( EP , 28 December 1987 ) that in the past five years Slovenia has taken full advantage of this arrangement . |
| 17 | All the companies surveyed have increased their intelligence-gathering budgets substantially in the past five years … . |
| 18 | The Social Attitudes Survey can shine some light on this relationship , since it collected information on respondents ' experience of unemployment in the past five years , as well as the respondent 's current economic status . |
| 19 | The report reveals that , in the past five years , some 8.7 tonnes of plutonium has been produced , with about 156 kilograms unaccounted for . |
| 20 | ‘ In the past five years quoted companies in America have been questioned increasingly about equal opportunities , policies towards South Africa , purification of water supplies , product liability in overseas markets and so on , ’ Davies says . |
| 21 | It had seemed to him , about halfway through his investigation , that in the past five years Jean-Paul had done one thing , and one thing only . |
| 22 | In addition to the 20 per cent out of work , contract and part-time employment has tripled in the past five years . |
| 23 | The survey revealed that 100,000 people had injected drugs in the past five years , with more than half sharing needles . |
| 24 | Writing paper sales are largest in Germany where output has increased by 25 per cent in the past five years . |
| 25 | The balance of payments has been in surplus every year but two , external debt is less than 1% of official foreign reserves , and inflation has averaged only 2.2% in the past five years . |
| 26 | Lewis refereed last year 's Rumbelows Cup final and in the past five years has taken charge of three FA Cup semi-finals . |
| 27 | And there had been a 26 per cent rise in the number of people seeking help in the past five years . |
| 28 | He 's given them £342,000 in the past five years to create the ‘ right business environment ’ . |
| 29 | In the past five years public perception of Amnesty has been transformed by the high level of media coverage gained from AI reports , campaigns and fundraising activities . |
| 30 | Seventh , but one of the most important , Gerstner must get a handle on IBM 's debt — ‘ Make sure you really understand why IBM 's debt has ballooned in the past five years , ’ advises Smith . |