Example sentences of "past [adj] year [pers pn] has " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past eight years it has halved in size ( from 6500 staff in 30 institutes ) and simultaneously it has changed its entire research strategy . |
| 2 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |
| 3 | During the past few years she has been forced to endure : — A break-in at her home and the loss of £5,500 ; — A series of raids on her office which eventually prompted the company to move elsewhere in the town ; — Drunks breaking into the company headquarters to sleep off their drinking binges ; — Car theft and vehicle damage . |
| 4 | For the past few years he has been joined in aspects of his research and conservation work by Dr Jane O'Sullivan , an agricultural scientist with an interest in the relationship between humanity and the natural world . |
| 5 | In the past few years it has suffered from serious errors in planning and a lack of investment . |
| 6 | Critics of multimedia say that it is a solution looking for a problem , but during the past few years it has delivered many useful applications , some of them in the financial sector . |
| 7 | Over the past few years it has become increasingly evident that the UK is witnessing a transformation in dominant household forms . |
| 8 | In the past few years it has become clear that the small intestine is also damaged by NSAIDs . |
| 9 | But now the solar influence is beginning to turn around to contribute a further warming influence up to the year 2010 , boosting the greenhouse effect where for the past 30 years it has been counterbalancing it . |
| 10 | For the past 26 years he has worked in the offices at the Courtaulds Chemicals power station on the Spondon site . |
| 11 | In the past six years he has represented himself before 34 High Court judges , 25 Masters , 14 Registrars , four stipendary magistrates , two Justices of the Peace , and four Scottish sheriffs Yesterday was his 239th court appearance . |
| 12 | For the past 100 years it has ejected more than 1,000 tonnes of chlorine into the atmosphere every day . |
| 13 | This is vintage Saddam : over the past 21 years he has swung between killing Iraqi Kurds and offering them more self-rule than the Kurds in Turkey , Iran or Syria can dream of . |
| 14 | For the past three years he has been building LDP 's contract business in the South of England . |
| 15 | Over the past three years it has received 11 visits from the Sudbury-based charity group Christian Cargo . |
| 16 | It just so happens that for the past sixty years it has been . |
| 17 | In the past 25 years he has also been responsible for the construction of the mortality tables produced by the Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau for use by the life offices and has also taken an active part in the development of a new method of analysing sickness insurance statistics . |
| 18 | For the past ten years she has been teaching part time at Roedean and between 1987–9 she completed a part time M.A. at Sussex University in Northern Renaissance Studies . |
| 19 | Over the past ten years it has been government policy to encourage this ( DHSS , 1976a ) . |
| 20 | For the past five years she has devoted herself to the United Nations Children 's Fund and became its ambassador in an effort to help the world 's sick and starving children . |
| 21 | After all , if anyone has flourished in the past 13 years it has been the supermarkets . |
| 22 | Rather , over the past twenty years it has created discrete areas of fashion which do not automatically seek to emulate or follow one another . |
| 23 | During the past twenty years he has spent more and more time in Greece — and the paintings in the current exhibition of this veteran Abstract Expressionist at the ACA Galleries are the result of extended periods spent in Greece during the past two years ( 4 to 27 March ) . |
| 24 | In the past two years it has become much harder in America to use the private method of dealing with distress . |
| 25 | In the past two years it has grown by more than 35 per cent , and anyone who put in £3,000 when it was launched , in April 1988 , will have seen their investment swell to £4,267 . |
| 26 | For the past two years it has allowed our PCs and Macintoshes to share data in a wide range of formats without any hassle at all . |
| 27 | For the past two years she has been responsible for the rights department of Hachette 's children 's book imprints in Paris . |
| 28 | For the past two years she has been Chairman of the ‘ Kent Teachers ’ and has also been a member of the Kent display Team since 1976 . |
| 29 | For the past two years he has begun on July 10 . |
| 30 | For the past two years he has run Colnaghi 's representative office in Paris and has been responsible for business development in Europe , Japan and South America . |