Example sentences of "[adv] in [art] [adj] [det] years " in BNC.
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1 | So in the past few years since Big Bang we have seen dealers chasing every hare , especially since dealing volumes declined and firms have been more desperate to do business . |
2 | So in the past few years , I have given a speech which has has drawn attention to the the deficit on our General Fund and our need for continued care , to reduce the deficit . |
3 | Rio Tinto has bought into all the mines only in the past few years ; and it has its sights set on expansion . |
4 | It is only in the past few years that a good understanding of these types of collision has emerged , and it is only a year since Tiesinga et al . |
5 | It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre . |
6 | Although the pied flycatcher 's adultery has been known about since 1950 , it is only in the last few years that the scientist Rauno Alatalo and his colleagues , studying pied flycatchers in Sweden , have begun to unravel the finer details . |
7 | Its origins are disguised by its huge cob , and only in the last few years has genetic analysis teased out the whole truth about its humble cereal ancestry . |
8 | And I mean there has been up until fairly recently , it 's only in the last few years that relations have tended to get a bit better . |
9 | Only in the last few years have real efforts been made to equalize provision for different groups of the disabled and there is still a long way to go before we can claim to have adequate social security in this area . |
10 | It is only in the last few years , then , that new IT , mainly in the form of the microcomputer , has started to play a part in formal education . |
11 | He was a fan of the BCR though he came to know it only in the last few years of its life . |
12 | ‘ She has worked harder than all the others put together in the past few years . |
13 | Action has been taken , not just in the past few years but consistently by successive Governments since 1904 , to inhibit tobacco consumption by children . |
14 | The makers of mains signalling equipment hope that business will grow rapidly in the next few years . |
15 | ‘ The whole system of national training has improved enormously in the past few years , ’ Marshall said . |
16 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that it is often precisely those authorities that complain most about not being able to use capital receipts which have used the most in the past few years ? |
17 | ‘ The truth , about which we spoke so often in the past few years , has been reaffirmed once again — where there is a delay in dealing with overripe problems , excesses are inevitable , ’ Gorbachev said in the Tass transcript of his speech . |
18 | However , the world had " changed radically in the past few years " and there was an increased demand , felt throughout the UN system , for " intervention in response to local crisis , often at the expense of long-term development " . |
19 | Larger , ‘ executive ’ cars are poorer value to buy new , because their value drops so sharply in the first few years . |
20 | SCIAF has been supporting income-generation schemes for AIDS sufferers in Uganda as well as training and counselling , and it is expected that demands for assistance with AlDS-related projects will increase substantially in the next few years . |
21 | ‘ I 'm going to be away increasingly in the next few years . |
22 | I think things have changed quite dramatically in the last few years certainly , we admit very few people and we see them mostly as an outpatient . |
23 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
24 | ‘ The broadcasting environment will change dramatically in the next few years as new channels and broadcasters emerge in the commercial sector . |
25 | ‘ The broadcasting environment will change dramatically in the next few years as new channels and broadcasters emerge in the commercial sector . |
26 | Our understanding of the natural occurrence of Bt has been revised dramatically in the past few years . |
27 | There have been more cancelled and postponed competitions here in the last few years than live ones — all of which reflects badly on the BMC as controllers . |
28 | ‘ We have seen exciting developments here in the last few years . |
29 | But I think they 'll come up well in the next few years . |
30 | Maybe in the next few years these projects will come to fruition and achieve the hoped-for and much-needed improvements in the city of Funchal . |