Example sentences of "in [art] past few [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So in the past few weeks Mr Yavlinsky , Vladimir Shcherbakov , the Soviet minister in charge of economics , and Yevgeny Primakov , an aide to Mr Gorbachev , have all visited America trying to work out the terms of an aid-for-economic-reform package .
2 However in the past few days Hanley has come through a series of rigorous tests , and his return was hastened by the absence of Andy Goodway , who broke a finger at Headingley last Saturday .
3 In the past few days shoppers have been paying one last visit to the store , many angered by a trend which has seen Liverpool stripped of many of its landmark shops .
4 In the past few days Mr Delors has signalled his determination to boost the executive powers held by Brussels .
5 In the past few years interferometers have displaced scanning spectrophotometers in many applications .
6 In the past few years Broderick has been faced with a similar , if less epic problem : simply how to grow up on screen , how to graduate from the early ‘ smart kid ’ roles in War Games and Ferris Bueller 's Day Off which have so far intended to resort to a tour of duty in a Vietnam movie or wearing a false moustache in a cop drama to prove their ‘ maturity ’ as actors .
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