Example sentences of "[art] [adj] few years the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the previous few years the soap factory had been losing business because of imports of synthetic detergents , mainly through Lever Bros , the local branch of Unilever . |
| 2 | Over the past few years the Institute , under statute , has started to regulate its members ' insolvency , financial services and auditing work . |
| 3 | Sir , Over the past few years the tide of public opinion has been turning strongly against smoking , but this tide of public opinion was stemmed somewhat , albeit inadvertently , by the valiant efforts by tobacco companies . |
| 4 | The report noted that over the past few years the government departments had introduced competitive fee bidding for the appointment of consulting engineers leading to lower fee rates . |
| 5 | In the past few years the advent of AIDS has introduced a number of parasitic , bacterial and fungal diseases , some previously little known , that have proved to be highly pathogenic in immunocompromised patients . |
| 6 | In the past few years the advent of AIDS has introduced a number of parasitic , bacterial and fungal diseases , some previously little known , that have proved to be highly pathogenic in immunocompromised patients . |
| 7 | Over the past few years the pace of his acquisitions would make Rupert Murdoch blush . |
| 8 | But in the past few years the trend has been in the opposite direction . |
| 9 | Inevitably with the rapid expansion of the past few years the University is experiencing difficulties in providing sufficient academic as well as residential accommodation . |
| 10 | Over the past few years the market has boomed : Dataquest expects portables to account for around half of PC sales by 1995 . |
| 11 | Over the past few years the bourgeoisie has taken probably £10bn of completely untaxed , totally unearned capital profit from selling their houses . |
| 12 | In the past few years the appeal system has been successfully used to overcome the resistance of reluctant local authorities , and development has tended to proceed on an ad hoc basis with new centres sited where developers can acquire land easily rather than on the basis of any strategic plan . |
| 13 | On the other hand , in the past few years the number of students in further education colleges in Wales has increased very considerably . |