Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [num ord] 40 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | At most , third-party states , whether aligned with a superpower or non-aligned , could act as a brake on superpower action , though there is no strong evidence that they did so to much effect in the last 40 years . |
| 2 | Economic thinking over the last 40 years , the report observed , had shifted dramatically away from the promotion of state-directed industrialization towards a more " market-friendly " approach to development , but " markets sometimes prove inadequate or fail altogether " and " governments must , for example , invest in infrastructure and provide essential services to the poor " . |
| 3 | Much of geography over the last 40 years has been concerned with analysing these subsystems by breaking down each subsystem into ever smaller component parts and studying these parts , and their interrelationships , at an increasing level of detail . |
| 4 | Across the Atlantic , the Indian hockey team was in its pomp , winning the hockey tournament at the Los Angeles Olympics , and dominated hockey for the best part of the next 40 years . |
| 5 | As in this family , there is some migration of young people from the rural areas to the towns of Northern Ireland but this movement is less than it has been in Scotland or England during the last 40 years . |
| 6 | Incidentally , I have used projection television receivers at home for the last 40 years and , possibly their use does not require the eye to be concentrated in one continuous subtended angle , my in eyes in their fourth quarter century still resolve that one minute of arc ! |
| 7 | A study by the OECD tries to forecast what all these extra grey heads mean for public spending in different countries over the next 40 years , assuming that government policies remain unchanged . |
| 8 | Well I think that we have shown that we 're prepared to support Gorbachev in so far as er peace reform in the Soviet Union , but I think we 've got to look towards our own security in the West and we 've done very well with NATO , with the defensive block NATO over the last 40 years or so , and until we can have cast iron guarantees that Gorbachev is going to be secure and that he 's actually going to carry out his promises we 've got to keep our guard up . |
| 9 | It is anticipated that life expectancy at birth will rise by 2–3 years over the next 40 years . |
| 10 | This is , of course , an old and central dilemma as well as a major reason for the general acceptance of decentralization in large businesses in the last 40 years . |
| 11 | Could you please ask your colleagues , friends and class members and jot down what is known about how Medau started in SCOTLAND , the people responsible for promoting it there , dates ( as far as can be remembered ) , plus any unique events/human interest anecdotes from the last 40 years . |
| 12 | As to the political secrets that the KGB has gathered by the basketful over the last 40 years , few seem to have made much impact on the monolithic structure of Russia 's political machine . |
| 13 | Even though the decline will be succeeded by a modest rise , Britain 's dependency ratio over the next 40 years should rise by only eight percentage points , to 31% . |
| 14 | He invited to Scotland the English architect-author Robert William Billings whose Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland provided the source book for the Scottish baronial movement for the next 40 years . |
| 15 | For instance : Japan fears that providing for its growing proportion of dependent old people ( an increase in the over 65s from 9% in 1985 to 21.3% in 2025 ) will destroy the economic miracle of the last 40 years . |
| 16 | Sir : The Institute of Statisticians ' role over the last 40 years has been to promote and protect the professional integrity of statisticians not only in this country but in the many others covered by our membership ( 'Wide support for impartial check on official statistics ' , 10 October ) . |
| 17 | Scientists have been measuring the tide at Burnham-on-Sea , jotting down hours of sunlight , measuring the temperature to 14 decimal places and they have come to the conclusion that water levels could rise by a foot over the next 40 years . |
| 18 | Before the tyranny of television , movies , in tandem with rock 'n' roll , reached their creative peak during the last 40 years . |
| 19 | Unlike the two other big country stars of the last 40 years — sentimental Jim Reeves and podgy Garth Brooks — Cash plugs right into the myth of the Old West . |
| 20 | Although the Channel Tunnel Company set up during the 1880s survived the abandonment of the project , the pro-tunnel lobby had little success over the next 40 years despite a rash of Bills in Parliament and an inquiry by the Committee of Imperial defence in 1913 . |
| 21 | The first report to investigate the projected effects of global warming on Britain over the next 40 years has been released by the Department of the Environment . |
| 22 | Volume IV : The Last Laugh by Michael Holroyd Chatto & Windus , £10.99 HAVING served up George Bernard Shaw in three stout volumes , Michael Holroyd now offers us a slim postscript — an account of the first 40 years of Shaw 's afterlife . |
| 23 | If food 's got anything to do with it then I must have been eating the wrong way for the last 40 years . |
| 24 | Extrapolate the trends of the last 40 years and such a depressing scenario looks like a dead cert . |
| 25 | Here , then , are NME 's fave 40 TV shows from the last 40 years . |
| 26 | While a number of useful studies have been made of changes in particular fields , there has been no detailed and comprehensive review of all the changing assumptions , policies and practices of the last 40 years . |