Example sentences of "of [art] past few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could at least think about it , visualize it again , if not with pleasure , at least not with that sick-making horror of the past few weeks . |
| 2 | The events of the past few days have led several ministers to recognise the difficulty of restoring full authority to the Chancellor while the Prime Minister persists in her hostility to the EMS . |
| 3 | FINANCIAL markets displayed little enthusiasm for Nigel Lawson 's speech to the Tory party conference yesterday but were prepared to grant the pound a respite from the hammering of the past few days . |
| 4 | Traditional peg tiles have been in great demand since the storms of the past few years , so for Tenterden tile makers Spicer , the clouds had a silver lining . |
| 5 | That had always been the constitutional position , he said , but the big demonstrations of the past few days had proved that he had a popular mandate too . |
| 6 | The real significance of these comparisons remains unknown , as do the real workings of the dolphin mind , but it seems that dolphins and porpoises achieved their modern enlarged brains about 15–20 million years ago , whereas the evolution of the human brain is a phenomenon of the past few million years at the most . |
| 7 | Professional management will be needed to keep firms afloat , but it may not be enough to restore the explosive growth of the past few years . |
| 8 | Marie had not taken in the events of the past few days . |
| 9 | But there are still many people shocked by the events of the past few days , who never expected the Army to be prepared to launch rocket and artillery attacks on civilian targets . |
| 10 | As one Palestinian remarked : ‘ Many splits of the past few years have already been forgotten . |
| 11 | While this growth is less spectacular than that of the past few years , the cumulative impact is significant . |
| 12 | When this unlikely idea was first launched in England and Canada , the exact pattern of the past few million years of pole reversals had yet to be charted . |
| 13 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 14 | There was something subdued about the evening after that , as if the full significance of the events of the past few days was oppressing both of them . |
| 15 | Reassurance , warmth , sanity after the craziness and sadness of the past few weeks . |
| 16 | Pie day had dawned bright and clear but tons of straw and cinders had to be hastily brought in as vehicles and people sank in the mud caused by the torrential rain of the past few days . |
| 17 | One of the most marvellous happenings of the past few decades is the way in which infective diseases have been brought under control and even virtually abolished by modern drugs and vaccines , better hygiene , safe water supplies , modern sewage systems . |
| 18 | It 's been an ever-present feature in PFK — but has never been as large , colourful , or as popular as at present — number one in almost every reader survey of the past few years . |
| 19 | The drama of the past few days in Kabul has highlighted the two central problems of modern Afghanistan : one is the difficulty of finding a balance between the dominant Pathans and the array of other ethnic groups , Tajiks , Uzbeks , Hazaras and others who occupy the northern and western parts of the country ; the other is the tension between modernising élites in Kabul and the largely tribal rural population . |
| 20 | Duncan McCrea was still in residence , as if overlooked in the mayhem of the past few days . |
| 21 | The events of the past few weeks show that time has long gone . |
| 22 | After the disasters of the past few months , a result which would previously have been called disappointing will now be hailed as a triumph . |
| 23 | FALLING interest rates could signal the end of the great rental boom that flourished in the unstable property market of the past few years . |
| 24 | The most noticeable feature of the past few decades however , has been the increasing instability of economic life . |
| 25 | The Tories are about to enter their third term of office having driven a knife through the heart of much of the more advanced social legislation of the past few decades . |
| 26 | But the game 's top men are hoping they can devise a constructive plan for improvement so that the awfulness of the past few seasons might soon be no more than a bad dream . |
| 27 | Tersely , he recalled his experiences of the past few hours . |
| 28 | For most of the past few months , few would hesitate to answer , the Serbs . |
| 29 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |
| 30 | The pattern of AIDS research is also likely to be profoundly shaped by the events of the past few weeks , but more importantly by the articles by Fauci and Haase and their colleagues than by the preliminary report of the Anglo-French study . |