Example sentences of "[det] year have " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , many cars built within the last few years have hardened valve seats , or alloy cylinder heads that need little ( simply a retune ) or no modification to use unleaded petrol . |
| 2 | ( Two words of warning : the past few years have revealed an odd seasonal pattern of a good first quarter followed by three bad ones ; and , true to form , April and May this year have proved less rewarding than earlier months . |
| 3 | The past few years have been poor snow years for frustrated skiers . |
| 4 | The hot summers and mild winters of the last few years have added several of more unusual colonisers . |
| 5 | The past few years have seen a hardening of presidential arteries . |
| 6 | The last few years have seen a tremendous amount of' reconstruction , both internally and externally , some parts of the building having been perilously close to collapse . |
| 7 | As one Palestinian remarked : ‘ Many splits of the past few years have already been forgotten . |
| 8 | And what has happened before a few years have passed ? |
| 9 | At the time he said never again , but a few years have gone by and he has a different perception . |
| 10 | The last few years have seen the age of the fitness fanatics — those who rush headlong to join in the latest craze whether it is jogging , aerobics or weight training . |
| 11 | The last few years have seen widespread damage to homes through storms , floods , extreme cold and subsidence caused by drought . |
| 12 | The last few years have also seen the re-emergence of political elements within Mozambique who favour these developments and as of 1990 , Frelimo ceased to be the sole political party . |
| 13 | The past few years have seen the development of continuing education programmes for trained staff . |
| 14 | This has already happened in microelectronics and the last few years have seen a revolution in this respect . |
| 15 | Only within the last few years have doctors begun to realize that this microbe can cause disease . |
| 16 | Currently places within airlines are few and far between , but virtually all employable aircrew made jobless by the airline failures of the last few years have found new positions , although not always within the UK . |
| 17 | I have to be honest and say that the last few years have not been as good as I would have expected . |
| 18 | The last few years have been depressing for those of us trying to move house . |
| 19 | The last few years have seen quite a shake up in the leasing market . |
| 20 | The anti-smoking campaigns in the media in the last few years have made everyone aware of the risks we run if we continue to smoke . |
| 21 | It covers much new material , including letters which have never before been published , a number of long lost works which in the past few years have resurfaced from museum storerooms in the former Soviet Union , and works newly discovered in international private collections . |
| 22 | Yet , as we shall see , the last few years have witnessed a remarkable upsurge in research in those areas where quantification is possible , such as strike activity and its determinants ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 23 | Writing in The Executive Grapevine , he sees natural competition between search firms as enough to foster and maintain their quality , and considers that the last few years have witnessed a weeding-out of the less professional outfits resulting in fewer and better consultants . |
| 24 | But for a business used to being dominated by a single entity — the BBC — the past few years have been unsettling . |
| 25 | Frequent sales from central banks over the past few years have barely eaten into stocks . |
| 26 | The municipal authorities of Barcelona , who over the past few years have acquired a great deal of experience and expertise in founding and running cultural centres , have recently signed an agreement with the Fundación Salvador Allende to collaborate in setting up a museum in Santiago , Chile , to be called the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende . |
| 27 | It is time that your creative talents were developed alongside individuals who are of like mind and outlook , and you could not wish for a better planetary set-up to further your aims and ambitions : the past few years have taught you all you need to know about self-survival . |
| 28 | Early diagnosis and rapid initiation of treatment in the past few years have improved survival of PCP episodes from 60–70 per cent , although 5–30 per cent of patients with PCP will suffer respiratory failure , and most of these will die . |
| 29 | It may not be too extreme to suggest that the last few years have seen a quiet revolution in the direction taken by our thinking about writing development and the teaching of writing in schools . |
| 30 | And the past few years have been good years of course |