Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [art] [adj] few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its component elements are absorbed in the first few years of life largely unconsciously , and later more deliberately by informal and formal learning processes . |
| 2 | The vendor will be required to warrant that no industrial action has been taken or threatened in the last few years . |
| 3 | Curtis remarked to Springfield that he must have seen more action in Rockford in the space of a few days , than he had done in the previous few years . |
| 4 | While we have had our differences with the Government about the interim advisory committee and the way in which it has worked , it might be worthwhile at this stage , in what might be our final debate on the work of the interim advisory committee , to thank its members for the work that they have done in the past few years . |
| 5 | Although we found no evidence that the referral behaviour of first wave fundholders was affected by budgetary pressures , this may not be indicative of the way in which the effects of the reforms will be felt in the next few years . |
| 6 | There have been some new houses built in the last few years , but Ottringham is one of the few villages in Holderness which has not seen large housing developments taking place . |
| 7 | Some costs have risen in the past few years . ’ |
| 8 | As things turned out it was the Americans who made the greatest contribution , drawing heavily on the practice they had adopted in the last few years to incorporate the expertise available from industry and the unions into their CAB ( as they then were ) investigations . |
| 9 | Our marketing agency , Faulds , were asked to take three very powerful messages from our existing messages from our existing product range and develop advertising that was easy to understand and humorous — an approach which building societies have successfully adopted in the last few years . |
| 10 | We have Adopted in the last few years , the Modular Education System . |
| 11 | The aim of this research is to investigate the role of money income targets for a small open economy such as the UK , and their relationship with policies designed to avoid fluctuations in the exchange rate of the magnitude we have seen in the last few years . |
| 12 | er this rate is fixed and can only be changed by agreement with Brussels er and as we 've seen in the last few years , our normal currency exchange rate has fluctuated quite a lot er and in fact has er become fairly weak , but the green pound has stayed the same so there 's quite a difference between our exchange rate and the green rate . |
| 13 | Security guard Ed Collett , 32 , from Highbury , north London , said : ‘ It 's the best film I 've seen in the past few years . |
| 14 | Fergie was not , strictly speaking , Diana 's type ; she was certainly not like her old friends , nor indeed many of the friends she has made in the last few years . |
| 15 | This book is about that conflict of values , the efforts made in the last few years to come to terms with that conflict , and its implication for one of the major issues of our time — the reshaping of our farm policy , which , with the single aim of increased food production , has transformed the countryside over the last forty years in what is perhaps the greatest agricultural revolution since the settling of England began . |
| 16 | To maintain the advances that it has made in the last few years , Unix needs not only a ‘ viable ’ desktop environment , argues UI , but an attractively sized market for developers to aim at . |
| 17 | They can also point to real improvements made in the past few years : a rationalisation of economic-development agencies , say , or a tightening up of Medicaid billing procedures . |
| 18 | The Classics section with Nemo , Krazy Kat , TinTin , Dick Tracy , is featured largely because the strips in it have been reprinted in the past few years . |
| 19 | The company has been completely transformed in the last few years so that its environmental service now represents more than 80 per cent of its turnover . |
| 20 | It will show you how far our technology has advanced in the last few years . |
| 21 | They look around this area , they see the factories that have closed in the past few years , they know how many people are out of work . ’ |
| 22 | Interest has intensified in the past few years , encouraged by the scarcity of draughting skills , tough markets and the tumbling costs of CAD . |
| 23 | The method used in the past few years has been simple — ignore names put forward by organisations you do not approve of and pack the committees with more sympathetic interest groups . |
| 24 | The choice of these issues is determined by the expected areas of industrial relations change that can be anticipated in the next few years . |
| 25 | The rate of ozone depletion in the Antarctic has slowed in the past few years , but the researchers say that their model predicts " a return to more rapid depletion during the next four years as the solar minimum is approached . " |
| 26 | But the haemorrhage of people since travel was eased in the past few years , and the mass exodus of the past weeks suggest they are in a minority . |
| 27 | " Many more schemes are due to be completed in the next few years , so that by 1995 virtually all our bathing waters will be up to the required standard " , Trippier claimed . |
| 28 | An investigation undertaken in the past few years by the United Nations found that ‘ … in the majority of reporting agencies , computer staff … have chief responsibility for management policies relating to e-mail communications … |
| 29 | For example , one of the skills developed in the first few years of life involves the integration of data arriving through the different sensory channels . |
| 30 | Individual colleges and institutes vary both according to the proportion of advanced work which they provide and also the types of courses which they offer , depending partly on the nature of the institutions which went to make them up and partly on the way in which they have developed in the past few years . |