Example sentences of "[prep] the previous five years " in BNC.

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1 A year ago , having for the previous five years been one of the quietest incumbents of the Quirinale Palace , Mr Cossiga announced his intention ‘ to shake a few pebbles out of my shoes ’ .
2 I returned to the UK before was born after working in Spain for the previous five years .
3 Tom checked his NatWest statements for the previous five years and was repaid £14,974 .
4 For the previous five years I 'd worked solely as a sports photographer , and had really enjoyed it , but my work on the Hoggar Marathon was different , because I was just as interested in the scenery that surrounded me as I was in the race itself .
5 It was during the short period of Crellin 's Chairmanship that the BDDA made a vital decision by appointing Allan Hayhurst full-time paid secretary/treasurer Hayhurst had performed this dual role for the previous five years in an honourary part-time capacity , combining it with his full-time job as missioner of the Carlisle Diocese .
6 The 1991 budget ( adopted by the Assembly on Dec. 12 , 1990 ) envisaged a growth rate of 3.5 per cent ( against an average of 4.3 per cent for the previous five years ) , inflation at 11 per cent , and a budget deficit of 673,700 million escudos .
7 People disqualified from voting include those convicted of corrupt and illegal practices in elections during the previous five years ; those imprisoned for a criminal offence ; and those detained in psychiatric hospitals .
8 In 1975 Hugo Young analysed the educational background of 31 appointees to the High Court during the previous five years .
9 Nor , normally , can an accounting reference period be extended if it has already been extended during the previous five years .
10 The figure represented an increase of more than 70 per cent over the total amount of aid granted during the previous five years .
11 Whereas in the 6th edition the re-written §246 dismisses the above as ‘ all my experience permitted me to say at the time … and that his research of the previous five years had wholly solved the difficulties of repetition .
12 Manufacturing output grew by 8 per cent , below the 10 per cent average of the previous five years , and mining by 9 per cent .
13 Labours Immediate Programme summarized the discussions of the previous five years in a form which appealed even to the Left of the Party and to the Communists .
14 In stark contrast , strikes and disputes have soared in Greece and Spain , with 939 days lost in Greece from 1987 to 1991 , a 72pc rise compared with the previous five years .
15 In addition to the disqualifications that apply to voting , a person may not be a candidate if he or she has been declared bankrupt within the previous five years , has incurred or authorised unlawful expenditure by a local authority above £2,000 , or is a paid employee of the local authority in question or the holder of a politically restricted post in another local authority ( see pages 88 — 9 ) .
16 It was apparent from elsewhere in the responses that four Polytechnics and five Colleges had had cuts in the area of Language in Education , and that one College and one Polytechnic had had increases in provisions within the previous five years .
17 In the previous five years the advice was published , but this year the Department of Education and Science kept it confidential .
18 Salford University , for instance , relegate on the basis of two features : a cut-off date of 1930 , and a measure of the number of uses in the previous five years .
19 The data seems to support the first belief : of those who had had some experience of unemployment in the previous five years , 0.480 said they would be prepared to break the law , whereas only 0.300 of those who had no such experience were ( a difference of +0.180 ) .
20 As approved , the bill would give Soviet citizens the automatic right to obtain a passport within one month of application , unless the applicant was involved in criminal proceedings , was liable for military service , or had had access to state secrets in the previous five years .
21 A review of the Board 's work in November 197 1 indicated that in the previous five years it had approved six courses in librarianship and two in information science at a total of six colleges .
22 The fact that France had already received the lion 's share of new European component investment over the previous five years was beside the point .
23 Over the previous five years , where had the greatest money flowed freely ?
24 In deciding whether an applicant passes the general fitness tests , the LA will take account of any convictions concerning the operation of goods vehicles over the previous five years .
25 The confrontation was symbolic of the accelerating polarization which had occurred over the previous five years , with the Popular Front calling for a determined re-application of the policies of 1931–3 and the right for radical constitutional revision .
26 This brought the total rise over the previous five years to 10 per cent .
27 A report by the human rights organization Amnesty International prepared over the previous five years , and released on June 19 , concluded that government inaction had allowed the proliferation of death squads run by prison officers and off-duty policemen .
28 It was characterized by a commitment to the policies of his predecessor , Tun Daim Zainuddin , who for seven years had kept the country on a course of fast economic growth ( with an average annual rate over the previous five years of 8.3 per cent ) , despite the threat of inflation , estimated to be over 5 per cent , and a worsening current-account balance .
29 ( i ) Reselection is every five years for a further five year period : ( a ) If panel members are with the same firm they would be expected to supply details of relevant experience over the previous five years , and to have attended a number of updating courses , accumulating at least 20 continuing education points ( or hours ) from courses related to personal injury work .
30 The more conspicuous results of this were the Centre Pompidou and the Musée d'Orsay ; a law of 1978 earmarked FFr363 million over 1978–82 for the the latter out of a total FFr1.407 billion to all museums , representing a five-fold increase relative to the previous five years and 64% of the total budget for culture .
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