Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few decades " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly it was once hoped , particularly after the devastation of the last war , that modern architecture might with the aid of science and technology provide mankind with a wholly satisfying new environment — and do so in a matter of a few decades . |
| 2 | There is yet no general explanation for the fertility decline ( Cleland and Wilson 1987 ) ; it is now clear that the transition began within the space of a few decades throughout Western Europe , from Trieste to Tromso , in a wide variety of countries ( Coale and Watkins 1986 ) . |
| 3 | And our own lifetime of a few decades is roughly in the middle of the range of times we can imagine . |
| 4 | These acceptable risks are commensurate with our lifetimes of a few decades . |
| 5 | He will judge as quite plausible an event , such as the origin of the first replicating molecule as postulated by some chemist 's theory , which we , kitted up by evolution to move in a world of a few decades ' duration , would judge to be an astounding miracle . |
| 6 | Once Queen Victoria had been established on the throne for a few decades , she acquired a natural authority when dealing with her prime ministers . |
| 7 | Electronic data interchange , or EDI , is another of those information technology concepts that , after politely lurking in the background for a few decades , is suddenly forcing itself on our attention with unmannerly persistence . |
| 8 | As for the mild , ramshackle Austro-Hungarian empire , it gave Bosnia peace and reasonably humane government for a few decades , until Austria-Hungary itself was broken up in 1918 — to the regret , quite soon , of many of its erstwhile subjects . |
| 9 | For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance . |
| 10 | It would be ironic to pick away at the mortar for a few decades only to break through into the next-door cell . |
| 11 | This means temperatures will eventually rise by the amount predicted but the thermal inertia of the oceans , which take longer to respond to atmospheric warming , will delay the full rise in temperature for a few decades . |
| 12 | This increase in greenhouse gases is expected to eventually force global temperatures to rise by 2 to 5 °C , although the full amount of warming will be delayed for a few decades because of oceanic thermal inertia . |
| 13 | Much of Taskopruzade 's work is concerned with scholars of the period before there was what might properly be called a learned hierarchy ; and though in his own lifetime a hierarchy of learned offices existed and certainly the basic principles of the hierarchy had been formulated it was by no means as thoroughly elaborated or rigid as it was to become even in the few decades after his death . |
| 14 | John Mather , chief geochemist at the British Geological Survey , warns that a third of our tapwater could exceed nitrate levels within a few decades . |
| 15 | Only one fertile Genestealer needed to remain alive in hiding to undo all the good work within a few decades . |
| 16 | Otherwise , within a few decades Genestealers would have begun to infiltrate your own family , polluting and hypnotizing . ’ |
| 17 | He is also afraid that the paint may have a tendency to absorb oxygen which means that it will eventually become brittle : ‘ I suspect that the paint will start showing cracks within a few decades ’ . |
| 18 | Within a few decades , forests and animals had returned to the shattered islands which were all that remained of Krakatoa 's outer rim ; and from the waters between them emerged an ominous smoking mound , sometimes growing at a rate of more than three feet a month . |
| 19 | 700 the area of circulation of the sceatta or penny , introduced probably in Kent in the 670s , was widening to embrace the Thames valley and Hamwic , near Southampton , was emerging as an important trading settlement to become within a few decades ‘ possibly the largest and most densely populated town in eighth-century England ’ . |
| 20 | The removal of many thousands of large whales , especially the krill-feeding rorquals , from the Southern Ocean within a few decades is thought by some ecologists to have favoured the many other species , including fish , birds and seals , that feed on krill . |
| 21 | They warn that the number of lakes affected may double within a few decades unless air pollution in Europe is halved . |
| 22 | China 's emissions of carbon dioxide , principally from its burgeoning coal industry , are increasing to the point where it is expected to become the largest single contributor of greenhouse gases within a few decades . |
| 23 | Again , while the emphasis in television has changed slightly from a few decades ago , for instance in the acceptance that women can be sufficiently authoritative to read news broadcasts , nevertheless we still have Westerns full of macho cowboys and soap operas with glamorous full-time housewives . |
| 24 | And still the faint red light up ahead came and went by fits and starts , leading them on across gale-swept open moorland , through massively still pine forests , up exposed dirt tracks and over passes whose names had vanished with the inhabitants of the farms where until a few decades earlier generation after generation of human beings had eked out lives of almost unimaginable deprivation . |
| 25 | Some people expect that in a few decades ' time youngsters will learn from their home tutor computers and rarely , if ever , have contact with a human teacher . |
| 26 | If the recent pattern of population change observed in many developing countries were to continue without modification then , in a few decades , there would be some impossibly large populations . |
| 27 | A history teacher is content to cover the history of one country or continent over a few decades . |
| 28 | As at other sites , the trace metal contamination — first lead , then zinc — predated the onset of acidification by a few decades . |