Example sentences of "only [art] [det] decades " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of man 's great intellectual adventures — the exploration and understanding of his own nervous system — is progressing at a rate undreamed of only a few decades ago . |
| 2 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |
| 3 | Evidence of this can be seen in the surprising number of items surviving from the late 19th and early 20th centuries , which one could be forgiven for thinking were only a few decades old . |
| 4 | The requirements of the sectors which are expanding today bear little resemblance to the requirements of the industries of the last century , or indeed to the industry of only a few decades ago . |
| 5 | Only a few decades later , the astronomer , Sir William Herschel , confirmed his idea by painstakingly cataloguing the positions and distances of vast numbers of stars . |