Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [art] [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Citing church sources , the Western media reported early in 1990 that 12 Roman Catholic bishops had been arrested in the previous few months , including Mgr Antoine Zhang Guangyi , 83 , who had already served 30 years in prison . |
| 32 | ‘ In addition , ’ said Dr Palmer , ‘ the meat industry needs to counteract , through better marketing and promotion , the negative image generated in the past few years by food activists and by media sources . ’ |
| 33 | Does the Minister recognise that the people of Wolverhampton do not regard the Secretary of State for the Environment as environmentally benign , certainly over the problems that they face with the new standard spending assessment announced in the past few days — |
| 34 | In my local hospital in Withington , the number of beds for the elderly has decreased in the past few years from 140 beds to barely 20 . |
| 35 | In his April review AB , while remaining loyal to the Walter and Klemperer versions , summed it up as ‘ the most compelling and most spontaneous of performances recorded in the past few years , and I shall want it by my for the sheer beauty of the sound , often in that respect surpassing any other version ’ . |
| 36 | The evidence that such a reaction does actually occur in humans , most markedly in individuals with low stomach acidity , has strengthened in the past few years . |
| 37 | The impression has been strengthened in the past few years that macro-economic developments and policies are now essentially international in character . |
| 38 | The essentials of the problem have been thoroughly analysed in the past few years ; the difficulty has been to obtain international agreement on solutions . |
| 39 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that this is not something that has arisen in the past few days , but has been carefully negotiated by the Government over many weeks ? |
| 40 | Will he give an assurance that he will sustain the generous funding of Northern Arts that he has managed in the past few years ? |
| 41 | Sorting machines incorporating microprocessors have been ordered in the past few weeks to upgrade rice , coffee and groundnuts . |