Example sentences of "years that have " in BNC.

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1 In the thirty-two years that have passed since Suez , there have only been four such occasions when the wheel has been put over :
2 Kaplan asked the question ‘ Is one costing system good enough ? ’ and in the years that have followed we have witnessed the response .
3 In the sixty odd years that have passed since it was built , the house , like any other house , has mellowed .
4 While such concerns are admirable in their no-nonsense practicality , they represent a significant decline in ambition when compared with the other criminologies that have appeared during the two hundred years that have passed since Beccaria wrote .
5 There have been a number of studies of poverty in the UK that have been made over the past twenty-five years that have consistently indicated that a substantial minority of people may experience serious relative deprivation .
6 Wharton-Tigar and Klein have not forgotten the incident over all the years that have passed .
7 In the twenty-nine years that have passed since Lloyd George 's death , he has continued to stir up furious argument amongst historians and biographers .
8 There are likely to be a number of crucial calculations within the next few years that have the possibility of showing that the theory is no good .
9 On the other hand , a primordial black hole should have almost completely evaporated in the ten billion years that have elapsed since the big bang , the beginning of the universe as we know it .
10 Pahl ( 1984 ) asserts that it is the last hundred years that have been the aberration compared with the greater flexibility of both earlier periods and the present time .
11 His words were prophetic , for as I write about it now I realize that it has never been repeated in the thirty-five years that have passed since then .
12 Erm but you will be in that position , you may be so dedicated about something that you want to do like I did , I thoroughly enjoyed it it 's given me a great deal of pleasure , I 've worked with about a hundred different people over the years that have been in my dance group , all ages all personalities , we 've worked with some fantastic music which er erm we 've had to interpret .
13 Having thus briefly examined the background against which the enormous post-war growth in higher education has taken place , we will now examine in detail those developments which have occurred in the three years that have elapsed since the first edition of this book appeared in 1979 .
14 Such fears are probably misconceived and in the years that have elapsed since the mergers took place there is no reason to believe that art education has suffered unduly at the hands of engineers and scientists in senior positions in the polytechnics .
15 He said this , in the thirty years that have passed since the previous Police Act became law , the old tripartite structure which consisted police authorities , chief constables and the Home Secretary , has provided an effective police service which can still truthfully be described as not only the best in the world , but also the envy of the world .
16 I believe that local democracy was not very responsibly exercised by some people in the years that have just gone by . ’
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