Example sentences of "[noun] during the [adj] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it is important that judges should retire earlier than they do , ’ said Mr Hewitt , of Etherley , near Bishop Auckland , who retired in his 73rd year but who has regularly been recalled to sit in judgement during the past two years . |
| 2 | On the other hand despite the increase in funding during the last forty years , the UK spending on health as a proportion of national income is lower than that in most West European countries and considerably lower than in the USA ( see Figure 7.1 ) . |
| 3 | It has been argued that in Britain , on every major social issue that has come before the courts during the last thirty years , the judges have supported ‘ the conventional , established and settled interest [ and ] have reacted strongly against challenges to those interests ’ ( Griffith , 1991 , p. 325 ) . |
| 4 | The warden , Peter de Neville , and his foresters , bailiffs and vendors of wood were accused of having taken great quantities of timber from the king 's demesne park and woods during the preceding thirteen years , for Neville 's own use , for sale and for making lime and charcoal . |
| 5 | Less than 25 have been completed and the latest plan aims to finish only 26 projects during the next two years . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's been to the United States three times during the past two years and returned with large sums of money , which he carries in a money belt . |
| 7 | The difficulty with all this is cost as , despite the Lands Tribunal decision , there is nothing to prevent the Capital Taxes Office from raising a new demand based on fresh grounds , as it has done many times during the past 11 years . |
| 8 | In real terms , the funding for the Energy Efficiency Office has risen 10 times during the past 11 years . |
| 9 | It only remains to add that although I have no doubt that Hugh correctly identified the ‘ search ’ of the Canterbury monks with the process of forgery , it is quite possible , indeed probable , that at various times during the previous fifty years individual members of the community had made experiments in altering the documents to make them more effective . |
| 10 | This will be done with the full cooperation of C3 Division of the Home Office , the Lord Chancellor 's Department and the Crown Prosecution Service all of whom have agreed to grant access to the relevant documentation in relation to cases during the first five years of the Act 's operation . |
| 11 | ‘ He smelt the cigarette smoke and I was fired , typical of my luck during the first 30 years of my life , ’ recalls Caine , 59 . |
| 12 | How , then , has the acceptance and understanding of racial differences been perpetuated and built into policy discussions during the past 40 years ? |
| 13 | The rate of ozone depletion in the Antarctic has slowed in the past few years , but the researchers say that their model predicts " a return to more rapid depletion during the next four years as the solar minimum is approached . " |
| 14 | But it is important that these arguments do not lead the world to forget what it learned about aid during the past 30 years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Another significant factor has been the instrumental ‘ explosion ’ which has affected all schools during the last forty years . |
| 17 | £500 of this was sent to Cafod for the ‘ Street Children of Brazil ’ which has been our main recipient during the last two years . |
| 18 | It is not the security forces who have wantonly and consistently used lethal force during the past 20 years . |
| 19 | But , hysteria apart , these trips opened my eyes to a new world of music and beauty , of which there had n't , of necessity , been a great deal during the last six years . |
| 20 | Oh , she knew she had learned a great deal during the last two years ; she also knew that a good part of herself was happy , mostly , she thought , because she had come to like Mrs Aggie and living in her house . |
| 21 | The Office of Naval Research , for whom test-tube fusion could have significant benefits , awarded the Utah team 400 000 dollars for research during the subsequent three years . |
| 22 | 8–12 There have been extensive improvements going on in Jura during the last two years . |
| 23 | Of the composers of Redford 's own generation , two of the greatest Christopher Tye ( c. 1500–1573 ) and John Taverner ( c. 1490–1545 ) — are represented by only one piece each , although Taverner 's ‘ In nomine ’ was the progenitor of a whole species of English music for keyboard , lute , or instrumental ensemble during the next hundred years and more . |
| 24 | There has been a tremendous upsurge in rural crime during the past 10 years . |
| 25 | A major player in the Middle East market over the last 45 years , Wimpey has experience a resurgence in workload during the last two years , with over £100 million of contracts awarded in the building , civil engineering and oil sectors . |
| 26 | I am pleased that there has been a threefold increase in , for example , HRT prescriptions during the past 10 years . |
| 27 | On jobs , its almost certain there will be further losses during the next two years , but bear in mind that when I asked for SVS volunteers last September more than 230 people applied . |
| 28 | One persistent question that intrigued those working on this study during the past four years was , ‘ Why do small farmers continue in agriculture when they achieve such small financial rewards for considerable expenditure of effort ? ’ |
| 29 | Since 1961 , it has happened 17 times in 31 seasons , or over half : a remarkable proportion given the economic imbalance that has developed already within English football during the last 31 years . |
| 30 | He wondered whether she had taken a lover during the last five years . |