Example sentences of "have [verb] in the last " in BNC.

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1 The number of babies delivered by Caesarean section has trebled in the last twenty years , according to a book just published .
2 Ritchie ( 1985 ) and Whittington and Ritchie ( 1988 ) argue that extensive machair has developed in the last 4000 years and that such a fundamental change in the geography and soils of the west coast would have had great influence on settlement history and patterns in this extreme marginal area .
3 He lacked the confidence that has come in the last three or four years to make decisions and stick to them .
4 The Strasbourg winger missed the opening games of the new season but has featured in the last four with no ill effects from his ligament damage .
5 The proportion of jobs with pension schemes has grown in the last twenty years , with the result that the ‘ young ’ elderly have a greater chance of benefiting from them than the older elderly .
6 In Gloucestershire the number of young offenders cuationed has risen in the last 2 years from 44% to 70% .
7 Held back for a long time by wild hitting , she has accepted in the last 12 months that there are occasions when she must suppress the urge to attack everything flat out .
8 County clubs , meanwhile , can help by welcoming former players , be they great or small , and in particular by forming old player associations , as Somerset has done in the last few seasons , as some have been doing for decades .
9 Fergie was not , strictly speaking , Diana 's type ; she was certainly not like her old friends , nor indeed many of the friends she has made in the last few years .
10 To maintain the advances that it has made in the last few years , Unix needs not only a ‘ viable ’ desktop environment , argues UI , but an attractively sized market for developers to aim at .
11 I would also appreciate a brief summary of the number and size of acquisitions your company has made in the last three years .
12 Yet the skill it has shown in the last three weeks suggests it is well equipped for the tricky tasks ahead .
13 It will show you how far our technology has advanced in the last few years .
14 The explosion of knowledge , skills and ideas , which has occurred in the last half century makes any mapping to some extent arbitrary .
15 IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war .
16 We certainly can not bank on the 49 per cent increase in the size of the Bar which has occurred in the last 10 years .
17 He has played in the last nine reserve matches .
18 Speeches were made by Sir David Miers and Sir Geoffrey Howe , emphasising the cultural debt of Europe to the classical Greek civilisation , and the role that the British School has played in the last 100 years in fostering good links between the United Kingdom and Greece .
19 Torrance , who has played in the last six Ryder Cup matches and badly wants to figure in the next at the Belfry in September , shot his 69 despite having a nose bleed for the first time in his life early in the morning , then again on the course .
20 Here it is time to turn to a consideration of what has become in the last decade , and is still as I write , perhaps the single most popular learning model in the trade today .
21 MORE men could be finding it difficult to father children because the average sperm count has halved in the last 50 years , an expert revealed yesterday .
22 ‘ This means a colossal amount of ozone has disappeared in the last few weeks , ’ Bill Jeffries , New Zealand 's Minister in charge of the Meteorological Service , said yesterday .
23 In the conventional view , Britain , once a legend throughout the world for its stolid , peaceable , and harmonious character , has experienced in the last decade and a half an alien and shocking advent of unprecedented incivility and disorder .
24 I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs .
25 Lafaille , a 26-years-old professional guide from Gap , has emerged in the last few years as a climber of unique all round ability .
26 Displaying remarkable maturity for a 22-year-old he has emerged in the last 18 months as the game 's outstanding personality , a player blessed with the full range of skills , someone with an unflappable temperament to match .
27 The latest CBI/NatWest Innovation Trends Survey shows that after two years of decline , expenditure in support of innovation has increased in the last two years .
28 As modernity has progressed in the last one hundred and fifty years , it is not only the world of work that has become secularised , but also government .
29 They referred to prophets of gloom , seemingly incapable of recognising how much the region has progressed in the last 13 years .
30 He was reacting to the Tory group 's comments that the ‘ prophets of doom and gloom ’ were incapable of recognising how much the region has progressed in the last 13 years .
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