Example sentences of "years [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doctors had known for 50 years about an enzyme that could dissolve the ligament without cutting . |
| 2 | Sir : The residents of this once tranquil village have been bickering for years about the best way to deal with increasing traffic . |
| 3 | The British are still largely complacent about their eating habits , despite a barrage of advice in recent years about the importance of a healthy diet , according to a report by market researcher Mintel . |
| 4 | In the Gulf of Maine , commercial mackerel fishermen have kept silent for years about the number of harbour porpoises dying in their nets . |
| 5 | As a result , the controversy which had raged for many years about the date of the introduction of the denarius was resolved . |
| 6 | I have been talking to the whites many years about the lands in question , and it is strange they can not understand me ; the country they claim belonged to my father , and when he died it was given to me and my people , and I will not leave it until I am compelled to . |
| 7 | The discoveries made in the last 30 years about the action of drugs on the brain are important medically and philosophically . |
| 8 | Students have been vocal in recent years about the lack of supervision and support in the wards . |
| 9 | It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre . |
| 10 | The board has been concerned for some years about the possible impact of excessive dependence on coal — used for 80 per cent of electricity currently generated — if developments in the domestic or international coal market push prices up rapidly . |
| 11 | There has been some bad press in recent years about the use of foam in cavity wall insulation and its possible side-effects on people 's health . |
| 12 | There have been rumblings in recent years about the need for a more open Society but recent changes , typified by this open day , augur well for the future . |
| 13 | According to colleagues , he has been seriously complaining for years about the parasitic passivity of arts television , which simply points a camera at a performance conceived and organised by someone else . |
| 14 | ‘ Now , however , this issue has been addressed again , this time taking into account what has been learned over the years about the effects of zero-point energy . |
| 15 | This change of outlook was the result of a fusing of perceptions over some years about the character and behaviour of the West Indians as partners in the project of amelioration and gradual emancipation . |
| 16 | Such figures make a mockery of talk during the past couple of years about the ‘ world economic recession ’ . |
| 17 | A study by Moxon ( 1999 : 15 ) shows that as many as two-fifths of those whose offences involved less than £200 received unsuspended custody ( largely as a result of past offending or being in breach of an existing court order ) in spite of the persistent concern in recent years about the need to restrict custody to only the most serious property offenders . |
| 18 | Politicians of both parties have become increasingly concerned in the last twenty years about the problems of house-buyers , in the face of spiralling land and building costs and high rates of mortgage interest . |
| 19 | As suggested in the last chapter , there has been a considerable amount of conflict in recent years about the autonomy of these authorities as ‘ policy makers ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ All I 'm doing is being part of the quiet revival of the traditional novel , in which the commonplace doings and feelings of ordinary people are charted : the kind of novel that , with all the noise made in the past 25 years about the blockbuster and the literary novel , has been shouted down . |
| 21 | Environmental groups have been lobbying for years about the issue . |
| 22 | 2.8 There have been a large number of judicial observations over the years about the general nature of the remedy established by fatal accidents legislation . |
| 23 | He says the county council has been trying to find out for 6 years about the planning of the east-west route because we were very worried about the effect it would have on Oxford and the countryside around Oxford . |
| 24 | I have worked for 14 years as a care assistant in a special school , and although the general attitude towards individuals with a mental handicap is gradually changing , it is both reassuring and encouraging to see youngsters such as these becoming a more regular part of ‘ everyday life ’ . |
| 25 | He has published a second volume of autobiography , in which he deals with his years as a student at Oxford before and after the world war , and is now bursar of one of the colleges there . |
| 26 | After three years as a cadet carrying out basic police tasks around the station , I was sworn in as a constable . |
| 27 | Florrie North , of Eltham , said , after 53 years as a party member , that ‘ it seems conference is being asked to rubber stamp policies made elsewhere ’ . |
| 28 | The Dutch club , who won the Champions ' Cup three times in the early Seventies , were banned yesterday for at least two years as a result of crowd trouble that caused the abandonment of their UEFA Cup match against Austria Vienna in Amsterdam nine days ago . |
| 29 | In early years as a curate at Workington , the cruelties of the means test for taxation shook him into protest . |
| 30 | But then large portions of Jackson 's years as a recording artist have been spent picking back through complications he had no intention of creating . |