Example sentences of "in [art] past three years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rule of law in Sri Lanka has been seriously eroded : in the past three years , over a dozen lawyers have been murdered because of their involvement with human rights cases and at least 20 others have been forced to flee the country after receiving death threats . |
| 2 | As for ‘ le piston ’ , it is true that three senators have been accused of fraud , bribery and tax evasion in the past three years , but they have all been cleared of these charges by other senators . |
| 3 | In the past three years they have spent £1m transforming the former run-down pub on the banks of the River Severn into an attractive 34-bedroom hotel with restaurant and conference facilities . |
| 4 | Government statistics out this week show that sales for ‘ mixed retail businesses ’ have grown only half as fast as sales for all retailers in the past three years . |
| 5 | Many more of the 226 schools that have taken control of their own affairs in the past three years fear victimisation if they are returned to hostile local authorities . |
| 6 | A member of Stevens and Bolton 's commercial litigation department , he was asked to advise the national Campaign to Clean up Copier Contracts because of his success in dealing with many complaints in the past three years . |
| 7 | Recent refinements to production techniques have made tonyu palatable , and in the past three years sales have soared . |
| 8 | Almost single handedly in the past three years Jones has made high technology and the ‘ sunrise ’ industries household words and created a climate of industrial and community awareness . |
| 9 | According to Brussels-based research firm Expertronics , of 340 disclosed acquisitions involving European companies in the past three years , 135 were by UK-based companies . |
| 10 | It has made its way into the whisky business in the past three years by re-opening the Littlemill and Glen Scotia malt distilleries in Bowling and Campbeltown . |
| 11 | First , we had the idea one autumn of writing to all those who had been bereaved in the past three years and had had contact with the church . |
| 12 | This is due in part to the fact that President Ibrahim Babangida has already postponed the promised handover to civilian government three times in the past three years . |
| 13 | Executive member Pat Lynch said people were too terrified to go sick in an industry which has shed 70,000 jobs in the past three years . |
| 14 | In the past three years , as his star had risen , Sting had become an important asset in Virgin 's publishing catalogue . |
| 15 | ‘ Six murderers have been sent to Whitely in the past three years , ’ he said . |
| 16 | The Royal Society of Portrait Painters reports a threefold increase in commissions in the past three years alone and artists themselves testify that it is indeed a seller 's market . |
| 17 | If the postman knocks on the door to delivery the only parcel you 've received in the past three years , you can guarantee it will be at just before eight on the first Saturday morning you 've had a chance to have a proper lie in for months . |
| 18 | In the past three years , the MSC 's influence , as in England , has grown considerably ; for example , the number of training workshops has grown to twelve , offering more than four times as many places as three years ago . |
| 19 | Accordingly , we shall now concentrate on describing and analysing the developments flowing from Haycocks I that have taken place in the past three years . |
| 20 | In the past three years subject has been associated with at least two men other than her husband in circumstances giving rise to a strong presumption that the relationships were of a sexual nature … |
| 21 | But with a constant round of hotel openings — Hilton has opened 25 properties in the past three years and has 15 in development — he does n't actually get a lot of time behind the desk . |
| 22 | In view of the congestion on motorways and major trunk roads , do not those figures still fall short of what is necessary and desirable , despite the improvement that has been made in the past three years ? |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman is also mistaken because he has ignored the fact that in the past three years alone , £10 million of Department of Trade and Industry money has gone to the assisted area in west Cornwall . |
| 24 | in real terms over this period , and those pensioners will have benefited further since those statistics were compiled by the increases amounting to a third of a billion pounds that have been made in income support premiums in the past three years . |
| 25 | I believe that GPs , whether fund holders or not , recognise , like everyone else in the NHS , that Labour 's plans to turn all the reforms upside down and to throw away all the gains that have been made in the past three years are the last thing that the service needs . |
| 26 | All he can commit himself to is undoing everything that has been achieved in the past three years . |
| 27 | It is perhaps worth pointing out that in the past three years we have spent some £350 million on the poorer pensioners . |
| 28 | For example , in the past three years 8,610 posts have been relocated to the assisted areas and 18,700 posts to the urban programme areas . |
| 29 | However , this Government have frozen , deliberately , purchase grants even in the past three years when the Minister has had funds at his disposal . |
| 30 | Reynolds said that despite the considerable economic progress made by Ireland in the past three years , the size of the national debt [ see below ] continued to be a major constraint upon development and prevented further tax concessions . |