Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | This project attempts to answer these questions , concentrating on computer programmers and systems analysts and building on the base of information gathered during the past few years at Bristol . |
| 2 | The most feverish area of research in snowboarding for the past few years has been the quest for an improved binding system — in particular a releasable binding that works . |
| 3 | Elena has now returned for more plastic surgery and although her family does not have to pay for the treatment , there will be hefty travelling expenses to meet during the next few years . |
| 4 | RAIL fares are scheduled to soar in the next few years and at least 5,000 railway jobs will be lost following the Government 's decision to slash grants for British Rail in the early 1990s . |
| 5 | Such was the ferment of the times throughout Europe , and such was the rising volume of political controversy within Britain ( bear in mind also the Suffragette agitation and the conflict over the future of Ireland ) , that a more dramatic tipping of the balance than actually occurred in the next few years might have been expected . |
| 6 | The realization that these three systems can interact , and the identification of the mechanisms involved , has only come within the past few years . |
| 7 | It consists of a fortuitous , almost accidental , alliance between a particular fraction of development capital and New Right political reformers , not always particularly clearly articulated , which has in the last few years managed to don the cloak of inner city concern . |
| 8 | Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century maiolica has in the last few years returned to popularity ( the recent exhibition of the maiolica collections of the Metropolitan Museum was regularly crowded , to the amazement of Met officials ) , though most of its present day collectors are Italian . |
| 9 | This particular novelty was the third short orchestral piece to appear in the last few years , written , like the second , at Knussen 's prompting , and it rounded off a performance of all three as a suite , titled Three Occasions for Orchestra . |
| 10 | Competitively , snooker has until the last few years been confined to Britain and its old Commonwealth , but there have always been a few tables in the Far East , catering for the needs of expats . |
| 11 | All the hospitals in Southampton have been rebuilt over the past few years . |
| 12 | Look back at any crises which occurred over the last few years . |
| 13 | It seems likely then that at least some of the renewable energy options will be pursued over the next few years . |
| 14 | As Kmart has begun putting these data to work over the past few years , the company 's operations have become steadily more centralised . |
| 15 | The hotel , which will have full conference , banqueting and leisure facilities — including an outdoor swimming pool — is the first Novotel venture in Ireland , but others are expected over the next few years . |
| 16 | If only the Department of Education and Science would take a leaf out of C&P 's book when introducing some of the fundamental changes that education has had to absorb over the last few years ! |
| 17 | But we 're now reasonably confident that we will continue to increase over the next few years and are budgeting for a modest growth . ’ |
| 18 | These seem to have had their fears that the flood gates holding back university collections are now opening confirmed , as Edinburgh University announced last month that it was proposing to sell a sculpture by Adrian de Vries or a Ruisdael landscape , bequeathed by Sir James Torrie , to help put right a deficit permitted over the last few years by a Treasurer who has since resigned . |
| 19 | Matt wanted to know how her parents had fared over the last few years , and as we were about to leave the table he asked her to stay and tell him about them . |
| 20 | At the moment the price for North Sea oil is just over $18 , $4 less than average industry forecasts made during the last few years when we were building our portfolio . |
| 21 | Because HAI was in its infancy , in every job he filled during the first few years he had an American opposite number , sometimes with 30 years ' experience of the industry . |
| 22 | But the second games started , Merton would move , striding like a supermarket trolley attendant into the ring and ignoring all the ‘ rules ’ of improvisational comedy that the other clever-clever types had been carefully developing for the previous few years . |
| 23 | Its component elements are absorbed in the first few years of life largely unconsciously , and later more deliberately by informal and formal learning processes . |
| 24 | The vendor will be required to warrant that no industrial action has been taken or threatened in the last few years . |
| 25 | Curtis remarked to Springfield that he must have seen more action in Rockford in the space of a few days , than he had done in the previous few years . |
| 26 | While we have had our differences with the Government about the interim advisory committee and the way in which it has worked , it might be worthwhile at this stage , in what might be our final debate on the work of the interim advisory committee , to thank its members for the work that they have done in the past few years . |
| 27 | Although we found no evidence that the referral behaviour of first wave fundholders was affected by budgetary pressures , this may not be indicative of the way in which the effects of the reforms will be felt in the next few years . |
| 28 | There have been some new houses built in the last few years , but Ottringham is one of the few villages in Holderness which has not seen large housing developments taking place . |
| 29 | Other findings were that 67 per cent think standards will decline in the next few years if things carry on as they are and that 77 per cent agree teachers do a good job in spite of everything . |
| 30 | Some costs have risen in the past few years . ’ |