Example sentences of "development [prep] the [num ord] [num] years " in BNC.

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1 Studies from the USA , Australia and the UK demonstrated a highly significant relationship between foetal exposure to lead and birth weight , head circumference and development during the first two years of life .
2 Low-level exposure to lead during early childhood is associated with delays in neurophysical development during the first seven years of life , concludes a study of 494 children in a lead-smelting community in South Australia .
3 Hence the belated and misguided call from Kenneth Baker for longer school days — again betraying a rather narrow view of the use of time — which has been one of the unremarked and growing features of secondary curriculum development of the last twenty years .
4 This will be achieved through the compilation of a statistical database relating to the development in the last twenty years of the 200-300 largest UK manufacturing firms in 1970 , and detailed profiles of the activities of 50 of them since 1970 .
5 A notable development in the last ten years is the availability of insurance cover to protect vendors against possible liability for claims for breach of warranty .
6 As we move into 1993 The Women Artists Slide Library will be presenting a profile on its work and development over the last 10 years at the Centre 181 Gallery , King Street , in Hammersmith , London .
7 Although China and Japan were the central areas for martial arts development over the last 2,000 years , many other countries in southeast Asia developed indigenous fighting systems , each of which , though perhaps not so well known , has produced great masters and thousand-years old traditions .
8 After the completion of a £5.5M development over the last two years , Douglas Reyburn is now firmly positioned as one of the most modern spinning mills in the business and the largest woollen carpet yarn spinners in the country .
9 THE export business at has seen dramatic development over the last 15 years .
10 Mr and Mr , quite rightly as a matter of fact , suggest that er most of the employment development over the last ten years has taken place on the north side of York .
11 The major development over the next 20 years will be the 90% growth in gas consumption and the 80% rise in gas production .
12 Shortly after the US trip , at a meeting of OAS ministers at punte del Este in Uruguay , Castro made an appeal for US$30 billion for Latin American development over the next ten years .
13 We are being faced with ten million pounds worth of cuts in research and development over the next three years , so anything what this Government comes up with does n't surprise me , but I am a little bit devastated .
14 First , the pace of change and economic developments during the last twenty years or so have altered the landscapes he described very considerably .
15 The political developments of the next eighteen years ensured that this was not so .
16 The relationship between the judiciary and the Government has been changed by developments over the last twenty years and especially over the last five years or so .
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