Example sentences of "[art] last few years [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been some significant developments in the last few years including the introduction of full-time DATEC courses , which are provided for South Wales by the West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education . |
| 2 | Erm and I have to er pick up the point made opposite that the protection has been pretty good over the last few years without the policy . |
| 3 | Because I am delighted to report that education standards in Wales have been rising over the last few years following the introduction of the national curriculum and our other reforms . |
| 4 | I mean he he spent a lot of money on the last few years on the hotel cos he had six extra rooms built on did n't he ? |
| 5 | Michael Mason , editor of Capital Gay newspaper and involved in the gay movement for more than 20 years , said : ‘ There have been enormous changes but there is evidence in the last few years of an increase in queer-bashing by men aged 15–23 who have difficulty coping with their own sexuality . ’ |
| 6 | For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th . |
| 7 | This trick has been used since the last few years of the Vietnam war , and does not rely on any particularly outlandish circuitry . |
| 8 | These programmes were identified by the government ( HMSO , 1977 ) as central to urban regenerative strategies , but neither programme was redirected successfully towards the cities in the last few years of the 1974–9 Labour administration . |
| 9 | There was something approaching a ‘ moral panic ’ taking place in China during the last few years of the reform decade , exacerbated by the ‘ falling in love craze ’ and some of its unhealthy results . |
| 10 | Just as the rewards for European golfers have increased dramatically over the last few years with a circuit worth nearly twenty million pounds , so have they for caddies . |
| 11 | She well be reviewing the foundation 's programme over the last few years with the aim of identifying any gaps or areas where new initiatives might be needed . |
| 12 | Lafaille , a 26-years-old professional guide from Gap , has emerged in the last few years as a climber of unique all round ability . |
| 13 | Although the numbers of part-time teachers have declined in the last few years as a result of financial stringency , their contribution to the colleges remains important . |
| 14 | This aspect of the work has been phased out over the last few years as the UK content in most projects has risen to more than 70 per cent , leaving OSO to concentrate on its other roles in encouraging research and development into new offshore technology and using UK expertise to gain export orders on the back of North Sea achievements . |
| 15 | But in the last few years before the war , a new military mentality had dominated French planning , the leading exponent of which was Colonel de Grandmaison , Director of Military Operations . |
| 16 | This will be familiar to anyone who has followed the debates over the last few years concerning the ordination of women within the Anglican Church . |
| 17 | These seem to have had their fears that the flood gates holding back university collections are now opening confirmed , as Edinburgh University announced last month that it was proposing to sell a sculpture by Adrian de Vries or a Ruisdael landscape , bequeathed by Sir James Torrie , to help put right a deficit permitted over the last few years by a Treasurer who has since resigned . |
| 18 | Most of them , however , left Romania before the last few years in an attempt to capitalise on what 's left of their playing careers . |
| 19 | This is the kind of thing that we really ought to be addressing because this actually addresses the safety of people in this county , not only the safety of people , this addresses the safety of property as well and there 's no disagreement about the fact that this enormous development that 's happened over the last few years in an area where you 've got a regular traffic snarl-ups mean that you have got a potential disaster there on your hands and we 're jolly lucky we have n't any more serious incidents than we 've had already and so I can see no reason why these two mo these two amendments should n't both happily be accepted though I 'm very cynical about the number of times we 've spent the airport money already and sooner or later we 've obviously got to actually seriously address that but the important thing is that we do all take it seriously and it seems that we all do now take it seriously . |
| 20 | Neural networks , or connectionist models , have been increasingly influential in the last few years in the description and investigation of language processing . |
| 21 | The Board 's General Manager Tom Frawley said today that the decision to close the Shantallow home had been a difficult one , but claimed it was the only possible course of action ‘ in light of the increase over the last few years in the level of nursing home accommodation and the reduced demand for residential accommodation which has come about as a result of improvements in housing in general and the development of sheltered accommodation and other community alternatives . ’ |
| 22 | In addition , specialist teams have been engaged over the last few years in the systematic examination of the wide range of packaging materials used within the Group . |