Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [art] [num ord] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scholar , Hector Boece , first Principal of Aberdeen University , writing about Ayrshire in the first few years of the 16th century , observed that , , another indication of the age of the legend . |
| 2 | A college report on a short experiment in mechanics A thesis for a higher degree in anthropology The findings of a young worker during Voluntary Service Overseas , on the social conditions in an African village The conclusions and opinions reached by the holder of a travelling scholarship on the variations in educational opportunities in several countries Findings on the depopulation of the countryside of S.W. England in the last 100 years Financial recommendations on a proposed merger of two large companies Economic proposals on the purchase and distribution of sugar in the E.E.C . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the projected capital spending in the NHS in the next three years ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 4 | With a chilling prophecy he then stated that it would be the task of a great leader , Hitler for preference , to march into Russia in the next five years and place one half of the population in the lethal chamber and the other half in the zoo . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what is his current estimate of capital expenditure on roads in Wiltshire in the next three years . |
| 6 | Capital expenditure on trunk road schemes in Wiltshire in the next three years will be approximately £50 million . |
| 7 | Meanwhile as my visits to South Africa showed me in such a traumatic and depressing way the conditions of the majority have got worse there 's economic recession lay-offs , high inflation rate and growing violence more people have been killed in South Africa in the last two years than in any previous two years that you look at . |
| 8 | In spite of the prevalence of economic planning in the 1960s and 1970s , it is doubtful whether a development policy has existed in most of Africa in the last twenty-five years . |
| 9 | We have not made any far-reaching contingency plans for after 1997 ; indeed so much has happened in China in the last two years that has shifted the mood from gloom to optimism ; today Hong Kong is a booming economic zone and is regarded as the mediator between the Western and Chinese economies ’ . |
| 10 | THREE thousand people , most of them innocent civilians , have been murdered in Ulster in the last 23 years … for nothing . |
| 11 | That 's one thing , at least , that has n't changed for Guinness in the last 20 years . |
| 12 | He explained how he had smuggled £175.4 million into Germany in the last five years . |
| 13 | What was the upshot for resource allocation of the wrangles between the Electricity Boards and Whitehall in the first ten years of nationalisation ? |
| 14 | Would n't have wormed through any Factory Safety Act passed in Britain in the last fifty years , open and unshielded parts , and half of the men who used them wore the scars on their hands to prove the danger . |
| 15 | Hamburger joints and up-market American-style restaurants have been spreading all over Britain in the last few years , and their food has been getting more authentic and better all the time — at least in terms of taste . |
| 16 | Opinion polls suggest that a variety of social reforms carried out in Britain in the last few years — the abolition of capital punishment and the liberalization of the law relating to homosexuality , for example — were enacted in the face of popular opposition . |
| 17 | The severe storms that have affected Britain in the last few years may be linked with sea-surface temperatures which have been fractionally higher than the long-term average . |
| 18 | THE Forestry Commission expects about 99,000 hectares of trees to be planted in Britain in the next three years . |
| 19 | Middlesex in the last two years have carried out their preseason training at the centre . |
| 20 | Memories of Loma Prieta are not the only incentive ; the US Geological Survey a 50 to 60 per cent chance of a major quake in California in the next 30 years that will cost $50 billion in property losses alone . |
| 21 | UB has made acquisitions in Europe , Australia and the US in the last two years in an attempt to strengthen its international presence in the biscuits and savoury snacks markets . |
| 22 | The available armed forces were expected to be fully committed to the defence of Italy in the first two years of a war . |
| 23 | A. In Lancashire , Merseyside and Greater Manchester in the last 10 years about 2 000 000 people have moved house ; that is about one third of all families . |
| 24 | I 've quartered Europe in the last few years . |
| 25 | It is thought that perhaps as many as twenty million have been sold across America and Europe in the last forty years to people anxious to contact dead relatives or to get answers to difficult problems in life . |
| 26 | I have tried to focus such an examination by playing the parlour game of making a list of the 50 Europeans who have most influenced the consciousness of Europe in the last 1,000 years . |
| 27 | The question of protecting minorities is one that will pose a real danger to Europe in the next five years . |
| 28 | Hoteliers will increasingly look to Europe in the next 10 years to satisfy their investment needs , according to Jonathan Bodlender , chairman of Horwath Consulting . |
| 29 | ( 1988 ) estimate 17,000 additional fatal cancers in Europe in the next 50 years but highlight that the Chernobyl legacy adds an increment of only 0.01 per cent to European lifetime fatal cancer risk . |
| 30 | The steel crisis , caused by over-production and cheap east European imports , is expected to slash 50,000 jobs in western Europe in the next few years , about 40,000 of them in Germany . |