Example sentences of "[art] [adj] few decades " in BNC.

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31 An interesting speculation is that the decline in H pylori infection over the past few decades would account at least in part for the reported decline in duodenal ulcer disease in Western populations .
32 Let's have a look more closely at some of the changes that have taken place in the past few decades .
33 We live in a technological age , and there are going to be major changes without a doubt , we 've all seen them over the past few decades , and into the future there are going to be many major changes .
34 ‘ The economic system of the last few decades has failed , ’ he said .
35 The use of oils in the kitchen has greatly increased in the last few decades , influenced by foreign travel and the subsequent awareness of international cuisine .
36 In 1877 a book was published entitled Switzerland 's Development into a Unitary State , so the trend is long term ; yet in the last few decades the country has undergone large-scale centralisation .
37 The characteristic feature of this sector is its heterogeneity , brought about by the changes of the last few decades .
38 Paid holidays , more affluence and cheaper travel have turned the last few decades into an era of travel .
39 Remembrement — the government sponsored reorganisation of land to produce larger fields and rationalised farms — has had a major impact on agricultural productivity and intensification in many parts of the French lowlands over the last few decades .
40 During the last few decades , despite the distress of individuals who are the victims of such social disorder , the problem has seemed relatively ‘ containable ’ in social terms .
41 It 's a frequent irritation however that British television companies are n't obliged to give the credit that is so manifestly due , especially since , in the last few years , the quality and range of recorded music for dramas and documentaries has become as almost diverse as that used in European cinema over the last few decades .
42 In the last few decades , however , the simple atoms of the early atomic theories have been discovered to be much more complex than was originally thought , and physicists are continually finding more and more sub-atomic particles .
43 Over the last few decades , at least 150,000 Mayan Indians have been killed by the army , one million have been displaced and a further 40,000 have ‘ disappeared ’ .
44 Utilitarianism has been both vigorously defended and attacked in the last few decades .
45 Another reason for looking at women 's attitudes to housework comes from surveys of gender differences in the areas of education and employment over the last few decades .
46 Such a change would set the final seal on what is perhaps the most radical transformation Japan has gone through in the last few decades : the disappearance of the farming community as a fundamental axis of politics , the economy and society and the emergence of Japan as a fully-fledged urban , industrial society .
47 The changes in these structures during the last few decades have altered the ground rules for everyone .
48 Unlike most manufactured goods , however , the real price of most services has increased over the last few decades .
49 A further aspect of the family , linking these ideas of privacy , home and self-expression , has received considerable attention in the last few decades with the growth of popular psychology manuals on how to enjoy or improve married sex and , more recently , encounter groups and sexual therapy .
50 Managers should never be administrators Over the last few decades the distinction between leaders , managers and administrators has become increasingly blurred , to the detriment of profit and people alike .
51 There have certainly been marked changes in Britain during the last few decades in both the ideals and practicalities of family life .
52 The position of women is often considered to have improved during the last few decades .
53 There certainly have been many changes in both attitudes to women 's sexuality and in women 's sexual practices over the last few decades .
54 Open-field farming , with few or no hedges must have produced a very bare landscape , totally lacking in visual interest which the great modern prairie farms of East Anglia have actually re-created in the last few decades .
55 This problem , associated with attempts to ascribe probabilities to scientific laws and theories in the light of given evidence , has given rise to a detailed technical research programme that has been tenaciously pursued and developed by inductivists over the last few decades .
56 It certainly begins to seem as though the materialist philosophy of the last few decades in the West was a myth just like any other , now that science is getting so weird , what with particles travelling back in time , and the fantastic strangeness of the new cosmology and chaos theory ( all those pretty Mandelbrot sets , and stuff about butterflies in China causing storms over the Atlantic ties in perfectly with the New Spirituality ) .
57 After all , this hundred young women have all benefited from the open , healthy , society that 's developed over the last few decades , or have they ?
58 However , during the last few decades a further , more marked , decrease occurred from values around pH 6 to the present-day values of about pH 4.5 ( figure 4.8 ) .
59 For travellers to the United States in the last few decades of the nineteenth century the immigrants to be seen at stations in the West , particularly in Omaha , were one of the most striking images of their visits .
60 Research in the Somerset Levels over the last few decades has produced a mass of evidence of prehistoric timber trackways built to cross the low-lying marshy land between the uplands of the Mendips and Poldens and islands in the Levels .
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