Example sentences of "in the last ten years " in BNC.
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| 1 | This historic forum will look at the development of Black-African , Caribbean , Asian — involvement in factual television , particularly in the last ten years , the era of Channel 4 and the specialist BBC Units . |
| 2 | In the last ten years , Mrs H. tells me , she has always had a servant , because without one , social duties , cooking , and housework , even with the most up-to-date equipment , proved too exhausting . |
| 3 | Diana has learnt a phenomenal amount in the last ten years — much of it from her husband . |
| 4 | Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them . |
| 5 | In the last ten years the number of phone calls from Britain to other European countries has multiplied two and half times . |
| 6 | A Saxon and a Norman chapel stood on the site of the present church , which was built by Prior Cantlow in the last ten years of the fifteenth century . |
| 7 | But in the last ten years , school history here has grown far more balanced . |
| 8 | In the last ten years it is estimated that the NRO has spent more than $50 billion , none of it accountable . |
| 9 | If everybody who bought a foreign car in the last ten years had bought a British one instead , there would n't be seventeen per cent unemployment in this area . ’ |
| 10 | In Tambopata Reserve , an area of ten hectares , in the last ten years , there 's been more birds spotted than in Great Britain since they began keeping records in 1750 . |
| 11 | In the last ten years of her life , her two teenage sons bore the brunt of her bitter and depressed spirit , while their father turned to the bottle and left them to it . |
| 12 | But in the last ten years , Britain 's butter consumption has suddenly fallen by about half , and margarine has reached a pinnacle of acceptance . |
| 13 | Their quality and spacing is laid down in the Building Regulations but in the last ten years difficulties have arisen over corrosion , not only in those made of mild steel but also in galvanised ties where the zinc coating is defective . |
| 14 | Such confrontation has been less frequent in the last ten years , probably because of the decline in popular support for extreme right-wing groups . |
| 15 | The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier . |
| 16 | This attitude is behind the policy of skimping on women and children which has kept the family allowance or child benefit frozen ( its real value has fallen by 18% in the last ten years ) . |
| 17 | For those who prefer scientific evidence for the effects of essential oils on the mind , let me draw your attention to some experiments carried out in the last ten years by John Steele ( an American research worker ) and Maxwell Cade , a British biophysicist . |
| 18 | In the last ten years or so a group of enthusiastic breeders has been attempting to locate and rescue some of the coloured cattle of Wales and in 1981 a breed society for the Ancient or Coloured Cattle of Wales was set up ; its Welsh title is Gwartheg Hynafol Cymru . |
| 19 | But in the last ten years , United have thrived on the back of an ambitious youth policy and the curious managerial whims of Jim McLean , Dundee United created a tangerine dream for the '80s , building an impressive and free-flowing side around players like David Narey , Paul Hegarty and Paul Sturrock . |
| 20 | Only once in the last ten years , in 1983 , have we been placed in the first three . |
| 21 | In the last ten years , 62,000 people have been killed on Britain 's roads , 800,000 people have been seriously injured , and 2,500,000 have been slightly injured . |
| 22 | The world has seen off ten mammals in the last ten years including the Falkland Island wolf , the Syrian wild ass and the crescent nail-tail wallaby . |
| 23 | It is generally accepted that for both the ageing and new/modern aircraft , the complexity of maintenance problems ( i.e. ageing — corrosion , modern — advanced avionics ) increased dramatically in the last ten years . |
| 24 | There has been a radical reappraisal of the Pinot Meunier in the last ten years and growers and houses alike are nowadays more willing to admit the commercial worth of this grape , a variety which was once conspicuous by its absence from various famous firms ' promotional pamphlets . |
| 25 | Tenor tree was only felled in the last ten years — and the stump can still be seen planted with pansies . |
| 26 | In the last ten years social movements of all kinds have played a major part in the transition to democracy ( and not only in Latin America and Eastern Europe ) , in human rights , environmental , peace and other movements . |
| 27 | In Britain , in the last ten years , the picture is confused . |
| 28 | Bunyan wrote many more books , mostly in the last ten years of his life . |
| 29 | But what truly makes my Dynamique even more attractive is this other comparison : in the last ten years and without a lot of fanfare Dynamique has become the reference point in terms of creativeness and reliability … always one step ahead of the others . |
| 30 | He 's done more than most in the Greater Ranges in the last ten years and still has the prospect of many more years to come . |