Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [adj] six years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith 's organisation has run their commercial activities for the past six years . |
| 2 | He works in the fashion business and has lived with his girlfriend for the past six years . |
| 3 | Brighter are so deeply drippy that they make Blueboy look like the English Metallica , Brighter sound like they 've been locked in a bedroom for the past six years and are still trying to come up with that ‘ C86 ’ audition tape . |
| 4 | This position was not only the culmination of ideas that had been knocking around in Balcon 's mind for the past six years or so , it was also a declaration of a new confidence in the possibility of British cinema , and a final casting off of the inferiority complex that had impaired British filmmakers since 1918 . |
| 5 | If a holding company can not immediately recover ACT against its own corporation tax liabilities , it should consider making use of its subsidiaries ' ACT capacity ( ie tax liabilities available for offset in the previous six years ) . |
| 6 | It builds on the experience of the past six years while , at the same time , recognising that improvements can be made in the light of that experience . |
| 7 | The report estimates that between $25 and $28 billion have been lost by Southern Africa Development Coordination Committee ( SADCC ) countries in the past six years as a result of destabilization , destruction of assets , enforced military expenditures , high transport costs and loss of output . |
| 8 | This is essentially what has been done at Foster Wheeler over the past six years , and the views expressed in this paper arise largely from reflecting on the experiences of that project . |
| 9 | A CPN has been a member of the Bristol Eating Disorder Team for the past six years . |
| 10 | If the provisions of s213 can be satisfied , management would incur no income tax charge or capital gains tax charge ; Target should have no liability to capital gains tax under s178 or 179 , even though it would be leaving a capital gains tax group as a result of the de-merger and may have had assets transferred to it on a no gain/no loss basis within the preceding six years . |
| 11 | Although he refused to speak against Gates , who had supported his election , Bush announced that Attorney General Thornburgh had begun a national review of the 15,000 complaints made to the federal government concerning acts of police brutality over the previous six years . |
| 12 | Charles Woosnam , 67 , of Builth Wells , who has been the part-time Commissioner for Wales of the Forestry Commissioner for the past six years , and is a former High Sheriff of Powys , receives the CBE . |
| 13 | He had won the court case , had obtained over £2,000 in costs , was due £4,750 as his half share of the sale price of the Baron , and William Dunlop had still to pay him half of the stallion 's considerable stud earnings for the preceding six years . |
| 14 | Ornithologists on Tower Island report hat , at the end of January , more rain fell in two-week period than in the whole of the previous six years . |
| 15 | The experiments of the past six years have demonstrated that in many cases the usual ways in which children have been taught to read can be improved . |
| 16 | In addition , contributions can be made to take up any unused part of the total earnings of the past six years . |
| 17 | In April 1914 , George Younger wrote in Our Flag about " Radical " Buy " Election promises " and cited ten cases from the past six years when Liberal by-election candidates had made promises to local groups of voters on behalf of the government promises of a change in policy to benefit local crafts or industry or employment . |
| 18 | If one takes the narrow definition of manufacturing investment , which excludes a range of investment that is made by manufacturing companies in services that no longer count as manufacturing investment but which they used to do in-house , the average for the past six years was £10.9 billion — much higher than under the previous Labour Government . |
| 19 | One disappointment was the absence of scrum-half Andy Gregory , the half-back partner to Edwards for the past six years . |
| 20 | Under s179 , which applies to accounting periods ending on or after 1 October 1993 , Target is again treated as disposing of assets acquired intra-group in the preceding six years , but the gain or loss accrues at the beginning of the accounting period in which Target leaves the vendor group ( see s179 TCGA and s89 Finance Act 1993 ) . |
| 21 | When a company leaves a group , any tax on the capital gain arising from the deemed disposal and reacquisition of an asset acquired intra-group in the past six years will accrue at that time rather than when the asset was acquired . |
| 22 | In 1982 , a study found that only 2 per cent of sales in the previous six years had been flats ( General Household Survey 1982 , 1984 , Table 5.44 ) . |
| 23 | He has been in , and safely out of , Cambodia , Afghanistan , El Salvador , the Middle East and Yugoslavia in the past six years . |
| 24 | Green boasts that British Coal has reduced prices by 30 per cent in real terms over the past six years and predicts the trend will continue ‘ not just by closing marginal capacity , but by ensuring existing capacity will be more efficient ’ . |
| 25 | Rees , a key figure in Rugby 's rise from area league status to the top division over the past six years , made his decision for what he called personal reasons , though his increasingly sharp disagreements with Brain became a talking point . |
| 26 | The first of these contains details on 61 surveys conducted by SCPR over the past six years : a total of about 3,000 interviewer assignments . |
| 27 | The current valuation of the collection , made by a team of Spanish experts over the past six years , is considered to be well below the market value of the works . |
| 28 | The Mammal Society has recently reported on the success of the Vincent Wildlife Trust 's otter projects over the past six years . |
| 29 | Which ? has deduced from safety inspections over the past six years that models from Audi/VW , Saab , Vauxhall and Volvo are ‘ clear leaders , showing an across-the-range application of thoughtful protective safety and design ’ . |
| 30 | The scheme , with its first three survey phases now complete , has cost £6.3m over the past six years . |