Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the past 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A CPN has been a member of the Bristol Eating Disorder Team for the past six years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In addition , contributions can be made to take up any unused part of the total earnings of the past six years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One disappointment was the absence of scrum-half Andy Gregory , the half-back partner to Edwards for the past six years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He has been in , and safely out of , Cambodia , Afghanistan , El Salvador , the Middle East and Yugoslavia in the past six years . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Mammal Society has recently reported on the success of the Vincent Wildlife Trust 's otter projects over the past six years . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | The scheme , with its first three survey phases now complete , has cost £6.3m over the past six years . |
| 24 | The scheme , with its first three survey phases now complete , has cost £6.3m over the past six years . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been playing throughout the year for the past six years and I think my body is telling me it is time for a break , ’ he said . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been playing throughout the year for the past six years and I think my body is telling me it is time for a break , ’ he said . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been playing throughout the year for the past six years and I think my body is telling me it is time for a break , ’ he said . |
| 28 | The agency has given a total of £1.5m towards emergency relief programmes in southern Sudan in the past six years . |
| 29 | The yen has been the strongest currency over the past six years : its trade-weighted index is about 35% higher than in 1985 . |
| 30 | MORE Israelis now favour ceding occupied Arab lands and the formation of an independent Palestinian state than at any other time in the past six years , according to an opinion poll published yesterday . |