Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [adj] five years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The City Centre road races , held in Newcastle and Gateshead for the past five years , have been switched to Aberdeen on May 16 following the end of General Portfolio 's sponsorship . |
| 2 | Their G P Felix Lusman had been using a faulty technique for the past five years . |
| 3 | If in a particular year Dr A publishes four papers , which are cited an average of 15 times by other authors during the following five years , then they have been useful . |
| 4 | Carmichael 's sexism — not that the word existed : ‘ the role of women in the struggle is prone ’ — and the obsession with struggle elsewhere and male intellectuals ' struggles here with an uncomprehending world , threw down enough issues to sustain a variety of competing tendencies , articles , and books for the following five years . |
| 5 | Whereas in the 6th edition the re-written §246 dismisses the above as ‘ all my experience permitted me to say at the time … and that his research of the previous five years had wholly solved the difficulties of repetition . |
| 6 | Since oil still accounts for over 25% of foreign exchange earnings and some 65% of total revenue the effect of the past five years has been almost cataclysmic . |
| 7 | I met the management of Trent Buses , which operates in a very competitive , deregulated environment , and I am glad to say that its investment programme over the past five years has been impressive . |
| 8 | The fact that France had already received the lion 's share of new European component investment over the previous five years was beside the point . |
| 9 | Many of those interviewed said their job had changed beyond recognition over the past five years and were providing more personal care at the expense of domestic help . |
| 10 | The policy has been the cornerstone of China 's efforts to revive state industry over the past five years . |
| 11 | I began by noting that in 1987 building societies were at the forefront of financial sector reporting , but the influence , in particular , of the EC has narrowed the gap over the past five years , so that the rules applicable to banks ( The Companies Act 1985 ( Bank Accounts ) Regulations 1991 ) and building societies ( the 1992 regulations ) are now very much in line . |
| 12 | Labours Immediate Programme summarized the discussions of the previous five years in a form which appealed even to the Left of the Party and to the Communists . |
| 13 | Next year the EC has to make a budget plan for the following five years . |
| 14 | This airworthy Mitchell , which has been grounded within the Museum for the past five years , is expected to attract a lot of interest from the Australian warbird community . |
| 15 | Will my right hon. Friend convey to the Governor of Hong Kong my congratulations and those of the House on the skilful and successful way in which he has conducted the affairs of Hong Kong in difficult circumstances for the past five years ? |
| 16 | I returned to the UK before was born after working in Spain for the previous five years . |
| 17 | And there had been a 26 per cent rise in the number of people seeking help in the past five years . |
| 18 | He 's given them £342,000 in the past five years to create the ‘ right business environment ’ . |
| 19 | It has been restored by the National Maritime Museum over the past five years and was reopened in May . |
| 20 | International factoring has grown at a faster rate than domestic factoring over the past five years but still remains only a small fraction of domestic business . |
| 21 | The article reported a survey by the National Solid Waste Management Association of the change in landfill capacity over the past five years . |
| 22 | Economic growth , at an annual average of 4% over the past five years , is not bad in the circumstances , though not as spectacular as the South-East Asian growth rates that Sri Lanka aspires to emulate . |
| 23 | What is being suggested is a softening of the hard line taken by the Tories in Scotland over the past five years in the use of political patronage . |
| 24 | A federation of recreation industry unions compiled a list of more than 100 MPs from ruling and opposition parties who allegedly received huge sums of money from pachinko barons for the past five years . |
| 25 | Director for the past five years of the National Campaign for the Arts , he previously worked for the former Labour minister , Mr Albert Booth , and the Low Pay Unit . |
| 26 | Tom checked his NatWest statements for the previous five years and was repaid £14,974 . |
| 27 | Despite a rise in income from commercial farming in the past five years , profits have almost halved at Newcastle University 's Cockle Park farm in Northumberland . |
| 28 | Having won more than 75 awards in the past five years , we might also have been asked to nominate a judge or two . |
| 29 | ‘ The commission took into consideration their record over the past five years , ’ said Graham Kelly , the FA 's chief executive , ‘ but they also noted that they had taken steps to improve it over the last 18 months . ’ |
| 30 | Dougherty has been doing the basic research and clinical studies for the past five years . |