Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the past 25 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is intended to approach this by studying : — their patenting activity by means of patents granted to them in the United States in the past 25 years ; this will indicate the areas where the industries/economies of each country — and their research/innovative activity appears to be strongest ; — the adoption of the selected major postwar innovations and their diffusion in the industries of each of the countries covered ; — their performance in ‘ high-technology ’ areas ; — certain indicators of the countries ' energy economics ; — and possibly assess their productivity level in comparison with some West European countries ; Economic research institutes in Sofia , Prague , Budapest and Warsaw will cooperate by providing — where necessary — the technical and statistical information required . |
| 2 | There has , however , been an increasing recognition in the United States over the past 25 years that community based services for people with long term mental illness have too often been fragmented . |
| 3 | It was about this time that Wynne made her first contact with Lars Carstensen and links were forged with Carita House , who have supplied so much of our equipment and clothing over the past 25 years . |
| 4 | Mrs Bason has issued all the tickets from her station during the past 25 years , during which time she has had no assistance whatever . |
| 5 | Until relatively recently little was known , but the position has been improved by a large number of studies in the past 25 years . |
| 6 | The major change of emphasis in the past 25 years has been the breakdown of the bookfund into headings representing functional or user criteria rather than into geographical headings . |
| 7 | Despite great advances in differential diagnosis and management of urinary incontinence in the past 25 years the handicap that it imposes on the sufferer has not been explored to any extent , nor has the way in which help has been sought and the effectiveness of such help . |
| 8 | As someone who has been admitted into psychiatric care 16 times in the past 25 years and has usually received acute care in asylum style settings , I shed few tears for the disappearance of these places . |
| 9 | JOEY is a pimp and has lived off the earnings of prostitutes for the past 25 years . |
| 10 | Her shows , which generate something of the atmosphere of rock concerts , with her interpretations of fashion 's greatest hits of the past 25 years , are rampantly sexy and commercial . |
| 11 | Finally physical chemistry ; here the most important advance in the past 25 years has been the study of the interaction of matter and radiation : spectroscopy . |
| 12 | It is virtually impossible to quantify the achievements of the University over the past 25 years . |
| 13 | The weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the past 25 years . " |
| 14 | The importance of the voyeur or ‘ invisible ’ spectator in western art has been comprehensively examined in the art history of the past 25 years , but it matters even more when the scene is exotic . |
| 15 | The continuing failure of the UK education system in the past 25 years to provide industry with skilled and conscientious labour to match that of Germany , Japan , Italy , South Korea and elsewhere , needs no particular emphasis . |
| 16 | Studies of the yearly growth rings of the Huon pines suggest that the temperature in the past 25 years has risen faster than at any other time since AD 900 . |
| 17 | It has been used on many ceremonial occasions over the past 25 years and serves as a constant reminder of the common history and friendship shared . |