Example sentences of "years that [pers pn] have " in BNC.

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1 They said it 's only in the last five to seven years that they 've had the technology to do it . ’
2 a lot of it is er propaganda by the Conservative if , if they were gon na get it right , why could n't they get it right in the thirteen years that they 've been in power ?
3 And she kept trying to convince herself that Julius would never carry out his threat , but it had been four very long years that they had been apart .
4 It was the fourth rise in German interest rates this year and the first time for several years that they have risen by a full percentage point .
5 We 've seen a very controlled and steady growth over the thirteen years that we 've been in business and I think as you can see there year on year we have consistently increased turnover and increased profitability .
6 Anyway it 's the first time since the Revie years that we 've won 5 on the trot in the league so lets just be happy for a while .
7 As for my hon. Friend 's other question , I confirm that it is as a result of this Government 's economic policies and the growth achieved over the years that we have secured not only higher public spending but a substantial reduction in direct taxes .
8 And the thing about it is such as erm well not only Tanys Dell that biggest part of school is here the population has decreased so much in the last ten years that we having now to close schools
9 It was bitterly resentful , her hatred burning high as she remembered the months running into years that it had taken for her to convince herself that the guilt she had felt after her own father 's death was a self-destructive trap and just one more wrong done to her by Luke Scott .
10 The town has always been a primary IRA target but this is the first time in many years that it has singled out the commercial centre .
11 Indeed , according to Booth , it is only in the last couple of years that it has focused on product marketing .
12 Interest in golf has grown so rapidly in the last ten years that it has reached out beyond its traditional confines and become glamorous .
13 During the three years that it has been accommodated at the Paris Exhibition Centre at Porte de Versailles — the original venue at CNIT having succumbed to the demolition expert 's hammer — the Salon Nautique has expanded by almost 20 per cent .
14 However , it is only within the last 10 years that it has become possible to process text electronically and thus improve the way non-routine information can be handled .
15 However , this sector of the Environment Services Division has expanded greatly in the ten years that it has been operating
16 It says , that not only does it save it 's money when it comes to when we 're putting in the tender bids , but actually the profits it makes goes back into the County Council , it has a two- prong saving of averages to this council , and we 've known and seen in the years that it 's been running that money has come back into county council balances , which means that we can have more money to spend on other services .
17 sorry can , can we get to the question again , want to see if I 've got it right , correct me if I 'm wrong , over the eighty schemes and the five years that you had put forward budgets for all , you had n't included a contingency fund element ?
18 Right , erm so do you think the place has changed much in the years that you 've worked here ?
19 Erm so do you feel that in the years that you 've worked here are women just as important in the factory and make up a large part of the workforce now as they , as they 've ever done ?
20 It was the first time in years that I had blown my top in such a way , and I vowed that it would never happen again , that I would save all my aggression for the track .
21 I really ca n't answer for David because in all the years that I 've known him , I always actually found him a rather cold person , even when I was 14 and he was 16 , even as boy and girlfriend .
22 It 's only in recent years that I 've learned to use the weather forecast before contemplating a hill-walk .
23 It 's the first time in years that I 've enjoyed the charts .
24 Pakistan also have strong support from ex-Test stars from other countries such as Australia 's respected former captain , Richie Benaud , who says : ‘ On the opening day of the final Cornhill Test I was privileged to witness some of the finest swing bowling in the 44 years that I 've been in the game .
25 Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said .
26 ‘ Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said .
27 Although not directly connected to the constitutional difficulties being experienced by Canada , McKenna acknowledged the indirect connection when , speaking of the growing co-operation between the four provinces , he admitted that he had " seen more co-operation during the last six months than I 've seen in the last five years that I 've been Premier " .
28 During the twelve years that I 've been head teacher at this school I have waited for promised improvements at the crossroads , and in particular the Lane junction .
29 Chairman , it 's always been this Committee 's policy over the twenty years , the twenty odd years that I 've been here , back here ru runner , that erm , so far as the food side is concerned , er , we should be , our policy should be based on the information , the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth , and letting people make up their own minds .
30 I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done .
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