Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the past 40 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | How , then , has the acceptance and understanding of racial differences been perpetuated and built into policy discussions during the past 40 years ? |
| 2 | But research over the past 40 years or so has revealed some great surprises in the natural world . |
| 3 | But the enthusiasm which burned inside Imre Pozsgay when he joined the party at the age of 17 has been extinguished by the bitter experiences of the past 40 years . |
| 4 | If they succeed , they will give up the last vestiges of the party state and refute the criticisms that they are only interested in the power and money accumulated by the Communists over the past 40 years , without accepting any blame for their actions . |
| 5 | The vole prefers slow-moving rivers , pools and marshy areas with some deep water whose level changes little , but there have been great changes to Britain 's wetlands during the past 40 years as a result of agricultural intensification . |
| 6 | There will be stricter limits on the state-of-siege powers that have been used by all governments for the past 40 years . |
| 7 | The illusion of an automatic tabula rasa also undermines the need for society to reflect on the consciousness that evolved under the conditions of the past 40 years . |
| 8 | At the same time it can be used to explain why in the absence of such effective restraints most governments have experienced positive inflation in the past 40 years . |
| 9 | A MURDERER has struck 16,636 times in London 's West End in the past 40 years , yet the mystery attacker is still at large . |
| 10 | The nuclear deterrent has been very effective in ensuring the security of the west over the past 40 years . |
| 11 | Dr O'Connor , 75 , has studied autism for the past 40 years . |
| 12 | ‘ The music that will be put into the Mister Roadrunner show is the best music of the past 40 years whereas Juke Box Jury was the records that came out that week . |
| 13 | A conference in Woods Hole , Massachusetts , reacting to reports of large-scale dumping of highly radioactive waste by the Soviet Union over the past 40 years [ see ED70 ] , concluded that " any potential problem would be a local one and would pose no threat on a global scale . " |
| 14 | MOSCOW ( Reuter ) — A senior defence official acknowledged that Soviet combat forces fought for a decade in Vietnam and in other foreign wars over the past 40 years . |
| 15 | Everyone agrees that the unprecedented growth in the economies of the Western world in the past 40 years owes as much to trade as to technological progress . |
| 16 | The Chapman family who have run the hotel for the past 40 years have kept the decor in keeping with the atmosphere the building creates . |
| 17 | One of the aims of Britain 's health and social services for the past 40 years has been to help old people to live in their own homes . |
| 18 | This ignorance has been noted and regretted in official reports over the past 40 years , most recently in the Warnock report . |
| 19 | The site studied by Guo and Bradshaw is a village in Jiangsu province , having an area of 155 hectares ( ha ) and a population of 2,353 inhabitants which has increased by about 0.25% a year over the past 40 years . |
| 20 | Needless to say , there have been certain noticeable effects on people raised on TV over the past 40 years . |
| 21 | Radioactive material discharged from the Sellafield processing plant into the Irish Sea over the past 40 years may eventually accumulate in sandy sediments on the seabed , according to the government 's Directorate of Fisheries Research . |
| 22 | Banque Piguet , a private Swiss bank established in 1856 , has advised non-residents on the purchase of Swiss freeholds for the past 40 years . |
| 23 | Greece has suffered more forest fires this summer than at any time in the past 40 years . |