Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [num ord] few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems likely then that at least some of the renewable energy options will be pursued over the next few years . |
| 2 | The hotel , which will have full conference , banqueting and leisure facilities — including an outdoor swimming pool — is the first Novotel venture in Ireland , but others are expected over the next few years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Matt wanted to know how her parents had fared over the last few years , and as we were about to leave the table he asked her to stay and tell him about them . |
| 5 | At the moment the price for North Sea oil is just over $18 , $4 less than average industry forecasts made during the last few years when we were building our portfolio . |
| 6 | Its component elements are absorbed in the first few years of life largely unconsciously , and later more deliberately by informal and formal learning processes . |
| 7 | The vendor will be required to warrant that no industrial action has been taken or threatened in the last few years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We have Adopted in the last few years , the Modular Education System . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | However , many cars built within the last few years have hardened valve seats , or alloy cylinder heads that need little ( simply a retune ) or no modification to use unleaded petrol . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As communication between Chinese Christians and Christians from around the world has grown over the last few years , the need for a regular English language update of information on Church life in China at all levels has been expressed in many quarters . |
| 20 | An attempt should be made over the next few years to answer this question in the light of experience and experimentation . |
| 21 | As such , they are extremely valuable and their accuracy is known to have improved considerably as a result of methodological improvements made over the last few years ( OPCS , 1980 ; Craig and Broad , 1982 ) . |
| 22 | Turning to the specific task on hand , he commended the gas turbine division as a whole for the great strides it had made over the last few years and stressed the important role that LTS had played in the division 's growth . |
| 23 | The national curriculum 's ‘ full benefits will be felt over the next few years , into the next century , ’ a Department of Education spokeswoman said . |
| 24 | ‘ I am delighted that they are doing so well in Darlington and that the company has expanded over the last few years . ’ |
| 25 | To this end the researcher will ask specialists in the fields covered by the database to comment on the range and area of research on women and gender issues in order to establish a research agenda , and an assessment of the facilities needed for the next few years . |
| 26 | The trophy for the ladies open has not been engraved for the last few years . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It will show you how far our technology has advanced in the last few years . |
| 29 | The choice of these issues is determined by the expected areas of industrial relations change that can be anticipated in the next few years . |
| 30 | " 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 . |