Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the past 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The policy has been the cornerstone of China 's efforts to revive state industry over the past five years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | And there had been a 26 per cent rise in the number of people seeking help in the past five years . |
| 11 | He 's given them £342,000 in the past five years to create the ‘ right business environment ’ . |
| 12 | It has been restored by the National Maritime Museum over the past five years and was reopened in May . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The article reported a survey by the National Solid Waste Management Association of the change in landfill capacity over the past five years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Having won more than 75 awards in the past five years , we might also have been asked to nominate a judge or two . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | Dougherty has been doing the basic research and clinical studies for the past five years . |
| 23 | He told of the advancements made against the backcloth of the Single Market , highlighting how all major EC turkey-producing countries had increased output during the past five years . |
| 24 | ‘ Not only have I been separated from my wife for the past five years — but in all that time I 've only once managed to make love to her . |
| 25 | He has sold organic wines for the past five years , ever since he got a licence . |
| 26 | So , I think we should say we are sceptical , and I think the paper puts it correctly er , we are sceptical of whether the reforms of the first consortium in fact , is going to meet the needs in terms of new health area and I know that time will come , they 're talking about the lot , it 's gon na wonderful and that the our economies should get all I can say is that the likelihood is the only f the area committee er , so that residents can comment managers , but since we 've already had a nine hundred percent increase in senior management in the health service in the past five years up from nine hundred to over ten thousand at a cost of fifty to two hundred and fifty million pounds I 'm rather sceptical about that one as well ! |
| 27 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what was the total subvention to British Coal from the Exchequer over the past five years . |
| 28 | Some of the most serious allegations of child torture concerned South Africa , where Koojimaans reported that " 80 to 90 per cent of children detained under State of Emergency regulations over the past five years had alleged being tortured in detention " . |
| 29 | The judges have repeatedly rejected the introduction of written briefs into English civil procedure , but Sir John Donaldson 's proposals and their development over the past five years are a step in the direction of a written stage in appellate procedure , despite the somewhat ambivalent caveat added at the end of the Practice Note : |
| 30 | Incidences of sun-induced skin cancer — have doubled in the UK over the past five years . |