Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the past 20 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norwegian Red breeders have plugged away at mastitis resistance for the past 20 years . |
| 2 | It is not the security forces who have wantonly and consistently used lethal force during the past 20 years . |
| 3 | This brief has been fulfilled with distinction , and every three or four months for the past 20 years the office has produced an objective , well-documented , literate , and attractively presented booklet encapsulating the known facts about subjects ranging from suicide , rabies and heart disease , to the cost of running hospitals and what the public expects from the NHS , always adding a few percipient comments and conclusions of its own for good measure . |
| 4 | The rapid changes in the membership and electoral fortunes of Scots , Welsh , Quebecois and no doubt other nationalist parties of the past 20 years illustrate this instability . |
| 5 | It requires courage and support from sympathetic colleagues to admit that the things that have been happening in classrooms or schools over the past 20 years have been wrong , pigheaded or simply inefficient . |
| 6 | Anyone who studies academic standards in our schools over the past 20 years must recognise that there have been considerable improvements . |
| 7 | There have indeed been great changes to public health practice over the past 20 years . |
| 8 | Noorda says that Novell is acutely aware of the ‘ history ’ of Unix and its penetration into government and industry over the past 20 years . |
| 9 | MORE than 200 children are believed to have been sexually assaulted and beaten by staff at council homes over the past 20 years . |
| 10 | But what a misguided strategy , after all the experience of the past 20 years . |
| 11 | In one of our coldest winters for the past 20 years , the system has been operating successfully and flexibly . |
| 12 | WE are sad to report the death of on March 25. , 58 , worked at Burstwick Mill for the past 20 years on raw materials intake . |
| 13 | Although in recent years total government capital spending has been of the order of £20 billion per annum , Brown and Jackson ( 1983 , p. 138 ) point out that this represents a real reduction of approximately one half over the past 20 years . |
| 14 | Large numbers of them have been included in conservation areas over the past 20 years . |
| 15 | English wine growers have only been operating on a commercial basis for the past 20 years . |
| 16 | Very much the same situation has obtained under Ministers of both Governments for the past 20 years — |
| 17 | ‘ And in a perverse way this is something which may be helpful because they are now beginning to appreciate more clearly the fear that has existed within the Protestant community for the past 20 years as they have been killed at random by the IRA , ’ he added . |
| 18 | In the expansion of academic legal scholarship that has taken place in the past 20 years family law was one of the first of the traditional areas of study to be ‘ broadened ’ . |
| 19 | She has made only a handful of films in the past 20 years . |
| 20 | There seems to have been little improvement in survival in patients with acute renal failure in the past 20 years . |
| 21 | Yeadon are one of the foremost manufacturers and installers of structures in North America , having installed 400 air halls in that country and Canada in the past 20 years , including a structure for the Canadian Tennis Association in Toronto . |
| 22 | With the vast expansion in library collections over the past 20 years , library professionals have had to deal with an ever increasing burden in the production and maintenance of library catalogues . |
| 23 | Great strides have been made in the reduction of ICI 's waste over the past 20 years . |
| 24 | Many anglers are hailing it as the most significant advance in fishing tackle during the past 20 years and Dave Chilton , the man who has popularised its use , believes that the line , made from the world 's strongest man-made fibre ( Lancia uses it to strengthen the internal bodywork of its cars ) , may revolutionise all branches of the sport . |
| 25 | Bryon Butler and the late Cyril Webb have been conspicuous figures of the past 20 years . |
| 26 | The growth of the library supplier has been a highly significant development of the past 20 years . |
| 27 | That could be seen as a minor complaint when the Forestry Commission 's marketing efforts in the past 20 years have attracted investment of more than £1 billion in wood processing . |
| 28 | Several groups have tried to locate the wreck in the past 20 years since technology made possible the recovery of its contents . |
| 29 | The experiment has resulted from the steady progression towards each other of the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus and the azure-winged magpie Cyanopica cyana , culminating in an overlap in ranges over the past 20 years . |
| 30 | Arguably , the most productive area of research into higher education over the past 20 years is that concerned with student learning . |