Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inflation has fallen over the last three months and the cone of possible future inflation is now pointing slightly downwards , the bank reports in the first of its quarterly reviews of inflation produced in response to the Chancellor 's invitation in his speech at the Mansion House last year . |
| 2 | He lacked the confidence that has come in the last three or four years to make decisions and stick to them . |
| 3 | In nineteen ninety three , four we made a seventy one thousand reduction in economic development , and this year we 're proposing to make a fifty thousand , there 're actually cuts I think , that any committee of any council has made for the last three years . |
| 4 | I would also appreciate a brief summary of the number and size of acquisitions your company has made in the last three years . |
| 5 | Yet the skill it has shown in the last three weeks suggests it is well equipped for the tricky tasks ahead . |
| 6 | The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators says that demand for good qualified chartered secretaries has rocketed over the last three to four years . |
| 7 | The same applies to Ashford , where according to our figures the same has happened for the last three years . |
| 8 | ‘ The substantial improvement we reported for 1992 has continued in the first three months of 1993 following a further sharp reduction in our worldwide underwriting deficit . |
| 9 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 10 | The majority of readers probably regard these features as self-evident , but they may not be aware of the speed with which UK society has changed in the last three decades , or , as we shall see , of the effects on areas which have not shared in the process . |
| 11 | You may have noticed over the last three slides that several of sites have had a zero er percentage registered and we certainly feel that in a couple of these sites this was probably due to poor note-keeping rather than a percentage . |
| 12 | At home , amongst his people , Mr Kinnock 's speech provoked the most spontaneous and enthusiastic standing ovation he had received in the last three weeks on the campaign trail . |
| 13 | I think bearing in mind the clear intentions behind criteria two and the concern that we 've heard over the last three days about inward migration , it might be useful if we tag a rider onto erm criteria two . |
| 14 | List in column 1 everything you 've done in the last three days . |
| 15 | We 've created a new sector , I , I 've seen over the last three or four years , changes in the way that we 've tried to represent our membership in the Health Service from the old industrial conferences to combined industrial conferences into the er , current erm , section that we 've now got . |
| 16 | Either the tumour in my lung had grown in the last three and a half weeks , in which case it must be even more in evidence , or it had stood still , in which case today 's X-rays must be much the same as the previous ones , or it had diminished . |
| 17 | Most abuses had occurred within the first three months of the occupation , in response to protests against forced " Iraqization " . |
| 18 | In Brightside the Unionist candidate had been specially demobilised for the election ; the Central Office agent for Yorkshire persuaded him to stand down , but it took a visit to Central Office before his supporters could be persuaded to support a Coalition Liberal that they had opposed at the last three elections . |
| 19 | Figures we 've obtained for the first three months of this year show astonishing variations in cautioning rates across Kent . |
| 20 | By the middle decades of the century the " old diplomacy " as it had evolved over the last three hundred years , with its easy-going and cosmopolitan atmosphere , its often short hours of work , its extensive use of unpaid or inadequately paid diplomats , its almost complete immunity from effective public scrutiny , was under increasing pressure . |
| 21 | Nothing had changed in the last three years . |
| 22 | Then , as though unable to keep her thoughts to herself , she added with more force , ‘ I must say you 've changed during the last three years . ’ |
| 23 | Cases of salmonella food poisoning in Britain have trebled in the last three years and are at an all-time high , according to government statistics . |
| 24 | Its peculiar feature is that the main raw material , pig bristle , is bought from a monopoly supplier , China , and it is imports of Chinese paint brushes that have quadrupled within the last three years . |
| 25 | The exact timing of the sensitive period differs between species ; domestic chicks , for example , only follow objects they have seen during the first three days after hatching , whereas for mallard ducklings , the phase lasts for 10–15 days after hatching . |
| 26 | Here 's the list I 've made so far — all the children I have seen in the last three weeks . |
| 27 | Requests to Darlington council for help with housing have tripled in the last three years , according to Labour . |
| 28 | Such a myth is integral to the salient cultural paradigm of our times and which we have possessed for the last three centuries . |
| 29 | Provided the seals have remained intact and the air is uncontaminated , analysis of the samples is expected to give a unique insight into the composition of the atmosphere at that time , and consequently provide an indication of changes which have occurred in the last three centuries , the period of worldwide industrialization and the extensive burning of fossil fuels . |
| 30 | Barn owl have bred for the last three years , and skylarks and meadow pipits have recolonised the wet meadows ; ten species of African migrant use the hedgerows and patches of gorse , bramble and nettles ; a colony of 20 pied flycatcher use the many nest boxes erected around the farm . |