Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] few years [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malcolm Cole 's programme notes do n't specify the circumstances of the ‘ grim struggle for survival which left serious composition out of the question ’ for the first few years after he had settled in the United States in 1939 , but , whatever they were , they informed his music with an intensity that the exuberance of his early style did n't find much room for . |
| 2 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 3 | A single budded standard , or a double where one has failed , can look distinctly lop-sided for the first few years until it has had time to develop — this is the sort of stuff you have to watch out for in the cheap ‘ end of season nursery clearance sales ’ and street markets . |
| 4 | He has played in Sicily for the past few years and has decided to renew his contract . |
| 5 | So you , you could put him into property , erm but erm I do n't know if he 'd been in the U K for the last few years whether he 'd be that keen on commercial property . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 7 | Cornwall has kept the Championship flag flying for the last few years and has continued to emphasise my own view that such a competition could have an important place . |
| 8 | Such an event normally takes us to Dartmoor or Exmoor , has run on the same basis for the last few years and is planned to the last minute — so why the meeting ? |
| 9 | Maureen has n't worked for the last few years and she 's ill herself , she 's got hepatitis B. |
| 10 | Scotland must take their chances in London against a side that has been the most consistent for the last few years if they are to come away with the spoils of victory . |
| 11 | Success followed success for the next few years but no races were held in 1888 and 1890 and the revival in 1891 was the beginning of another era with new builders entering the field although Lee 's still took an interest in events for in 1900 their steamboat " Lee " dressed overall took 80 members of the firm to see the Medway Barge Race . |
| 12 | We expect BP Exploration 's production to remain broadly at 1992 's level for the next few years and then to rise after 1995 . |
| 13 | When Mary I married Philip of Spain she decreed they ruled England jointly , and for the next few years until Elizabeth came to the throne the following strange convention was adopted for recording their regnal years : On 17 March 1649 the monarchy was abolished and during the period until parliamentary government was overtaken by the Restoration , English official documents were dated by the year of grace . |
| 14 | It is not known whether or not he ever returned to visit his mother during the first few years but it is certainly true that , latterly , he was not back in the county for many years . |
| 15 | Many manufacturing industries have been destocking during the past few years but now that is slowing down . |
| 16 | Tory group leader Tony Richmond refuted the figures , saying : ‘ There have been more new houses built in Darlington during the past few years than at any other time in the past . |
| 17 | Tory group leader Tony Richmond refuted the figures , saying : ‘ There have been more new houses built in Darlington during the past few years than at any other time in the past . |
| 18 | Having liquidated one in four employees during the past few years and having promised to treat its workforce to more of the same during 1993 , IBM should have surprised no one by investing some of the money it has presumably saved in an organisation formed by the people who produced the most recent Terminator film . |
| 19 | However , the future is very uncertain and it remains to be seen if this increase can be maintained during the next few years while the size of the eighteen-year-old population remains large . |
| 20 | Those of you who were present at the AGM will be aware that we have been told by the GAP that the Society 's grant will be drastically reduced during the next few years and will cease after 1991 . |
| 21 | It is intended that this system , which will presumably be the basis for pool allocations for some years to come , will be refined during the next few years as it works out in practice . |
| 22 | By that date , he was an ailing man , and apart from his routine duties , his first tasks were to clear up the muddles of the last few years and re-establish an acceptable procedure for future episcopal elections , investitures , and acts of homage . |
| 23 | If they can , they are much more cautious as a result of the experience of the past few years than they have ever been . |
| 24 | He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself . |
| 25 | There are likely to be a number of crucial calculations within the next few years that have the possibility of showing that the theory is no good . |
| 26 | Mr Clark said legislation ensuring re-inspection could come into force within the next few years and he warned that it could result in hotels being prosecuted if they contravened their Fire Certificates . |
| 27 | It is , however absolutely essential to prohibit all growth of grass and weeds for a metre round each tree in the first few years and while this is fairly simple to achieve by spraying with something such as glyphsate or by using a weed suppressing mat , there is still a substantial area to cut . |
| 28 | ‘ It is possible that a slow economic recovery and lower beef prices will coincide to increase consumption in the next few years but in the wake of consumer scares , such as BSE , the market needs a push . |
| 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 | However , much closer co-operation between the two bodies will be required in the next few years if rational decisions are to be made across the whole sector of higher education . |