Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] few years [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the next few years no one would try to temper this vision or even to relate it to reality . |
| 2 | The most promising compounds were selected and studied in many laboratories , and in the next few years a substantial number of monoamine oxidase inhibitors went into clinical trials , and some into widespread clinical use . |
| 3 | So far the birds in this country are being reared solely for sale as breeding pairs , but it 's hoped in the next few years the stock will be large enough to sell the birds for their meat . |
| 4 | But in the past few years a phoenix has risen from the flames of Lakehurst . |
| 5 | In the Past few years a number of small streets have been closed to traffic , and car-parking has been prohibited from the four central reservations in Avenida Arriaga . |
| 6 | However , in the past few years a class of antigens has emerged that does not conform to this conventional pathway of antigen presentation . |
| 7 | IN THE past few years the laws forbidding the sale of alcohol to teenagers have been weakened , in the sense that they are neither as just nor as realistic as they were . |
| 8 | But in the past few years the trend has been in the opposite direction . |
| 9 | In the past few years the appeal system has been successfully used to overcome the resistance of reluctant local authorities , and development has tended to proceed on an ad hoc basis with new centres sited where developers can acquire land easily rather than on the basis of any strategic plan . |
| 10 | On the other hand , in the past few years the number of students in further education colleges in Wales has increased very considerably . |
| 11 | In the past few years the advent of AIDS has introduced a number of parasitic , bacterial and fungal diseases , some previously little known , that have proved to be highly pathogenic in immunocompromised patients . |
| 12 | In the past few years the advent of AIDS has introduced a number of parasitic , bacterial and fungal diseases , some previously little known , that have proved to be highly pathogenic in immunocompromised patients . |
| 13 | In the last few years a powerful controversy has arisen over whether the dinosaurs as a whole were cold-blooded , like all living reptiles ( and there is no doubt that dinosaurs were reptiles ) , or warm-blooded , resembling mammals in this respect . |
| 14 | In the last few years a more objective method , based on the properties of the material erupted has been devised . |
| 15 | Both men are Christians , and in the last few years a number of other Christian writers have followed in their footsteps ( Hunter 1983 ; Guinness 1983 ; Williamson , Parotta et al 1983 ; Kolakowski 1986 ) . |
| 16 | It seems to me that we 're stronger fighting that together than apart and in the last few years a growing number of successful campaigns have strengthened this belief . |
| 17 | In the last few years the courts have contrived in effect to extend the substance of a right of occupation to a mistress who has lived on an originally permanent basis with a man , but who has now lost her partner either through death or as a result of some form of desertion . |
| 18 | In the last few years the Conservative government has instituted a programme called ‘ Next Steps ’ . |
| 19 | In the last few years the volume of literature concerned with gender and mathematics has grown apace , both at home and abroad . |
| 20 | I am encouraged that in the last few years the number of cyclists I see commuting to and in Edinburgh has increased . |