Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [num ord] 25 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pictures of stars who have made most contribution to the music industry over the last 25 years featured at a glittering party in New York 's Four Seasons Restaurant . |
| 2 | They will examine the social importance of journalists ' work over the last 25 years , particularly with regards to the Troubles . |
| 3 | ‘ THORP is already a successful project which will underpin BNFL 's profitability over the next 25 years , ’ said Ken Jackson , who was project director for five-and-a-half years . |
| 4 | A scan of the literature concerned with early Anglo-Saxon archaeology over the last 25 years has hardly reflected this change until very recently when there have been definite signs that dissatisfaction is leading to experimentation ; otherwise the Sutton Hoo harp has been played while the archaeological world burned . |
| 5 | THE University hosted a free-for-all Jubilee Fun Day at the Gannochy Sports Centre on Saturday 1 May in recognition of the University 's support from the local community over the last 25 years . |
| 6 | ‘ She has played a vital part in some of the most important movements and problems of the last 25 years , the ecumenical movement , the problem of refugees , the problems of world poverty and hunger , the problem of race relations . |
| 7 | What has the evidence of the last 25 years to tell us ? |
| 8 | Managing director Alan Smith said the region was heading for a water shortage in the next 25 years . |
| 9 | The United States Administration 's Office of Technology Assessment has claimed that the US could achieve cuts of up to 35 per cent in carbon dioxide emissions over the next 25 years without " major technological breakthroughs " or recourse to swingeing levies on energy consumption . |
| 10 | We have paid home insurance for the last 25 years and have never made a claim . |
| 11 | A feature of British society in the next 25 years will be the ageing of the ethnic minority communities who came to the country in the 1960s to provide labour ( Figure 2.11 ) . |
| 12 | Direct regulation of pollution has met with mixed success over the last 25 years . |
| 13 | Public administration and management in central government has stood up to these strains , but the weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the last 25 years . |
| 14 | Average milk yields nationally have increased by more than 1,000kg in the last 25 years as the result of a very high usage of artificial insemination and milk recording nationwide , and more recently an increasing interest in embryo transfer as well . |
| 15 | ‘ Pain in the housing market should finally kill off the British obsession with housing which has so distorted resource allocation in the last 25 years . |
| 16 | ‘ Sugar is still a growth market and we expect it to grow by roughly 2 per cent a year for the next 25 years , ’ he says . |
| 17 | Head of school Tom Hitchen said he could only find one other pupil at the school in the last 25 years who could match Alyson 's record . |
| 18 | We begin by examining American policing trends over the last 25 years . |
| 19 | ‘ What has predominantly improved race relations in this country over the last 25 years has been the firm , fair immigration controls we have sustained throughout that period . |
| 20 | Cash boost : Wirral council staff who retire are to receive £90 for the first 25 years of service and £3.60 for each subsequent year following an increase in long service awards . |
| 21 | Japanese Companies in fields like consumer electronics , photocopiers , clocks and watches , ball and roller bearings , and cars , have dramatically increased their share of the British market in the last 25 years and give every appearance of continuing to grow . |
| 22 | Great Britain has only produced four players of that calibre in the last 25 years . |
| 23 | Survival International calculates that 100,000 people have been killed in Guatemala in the last 25 years and over a million forced to flee what is described as the brutality of the US-supported government there . |
| 24 | Agriculture has learned to respond quickly to technical advances and has achieved greater increases in productivity over the last 25 years than any other industry . |
| 25 | The guide is designed to assist companies exploring for minerals in Great Britain : it summarises geological knowledge on the potential for metalliferous minerals and on styles of mineralisation , and reviews mineral exploration undertaken by companies and by BGS over the last 25 years . |
| 26 | … because the economic situation is now more serious than at any time over the last 25 years , the Government decided that resources must be released for investment and improving the balance of payments … |