Example sentences of "in [art] past 20 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has made only a handful of films in the past 20 years . |
| 2 | In real terms , median black family income in the mid-west has fallen by nearly a third in the past 20 years , from $24,690 to $17,400 . |
| 3 | There is no doubt that these perceptions have altered radically in the past 20 years , with the improvements in computer power needed for solving real problems ( see Box 1 ) . |
| 4 | John Irvine , who wrote the SPRU report with Ben Martin , told New Scientist that the results raise questions about British policy towards high-energy physics in the past 20 years . |
| 5 | In my view , no recording made in the past 20 years has managed to emulate the vigour and thrust of Paray and Münch in this piece , though I know Barenboim , Levin ( both DG ) and Dutoit ( Decca ) have their committed admirers and these are undoubtedly impressive in their own way . |
| 6 | This ranks as one of the few occasions in the past 20 years when I have forked out for a little bottle . |
| 7 | In contrast , the state has played little role in the protection of women against domestic violence although a very active voluntary sector has developed in the past 20 years . |
| 8 | More than 300 people have fallen from trains in the past 20 years . |
| 9 | Yeadon are one of the foremost manufacturers and installers of structures in North America , having installed 400 air halls in that country and Canada in the past 20 years , including a structure for the Canadian Tennis Association in Toronto . |
| 10 | Several groups have tried to locate the wreck in the past 20 years since technology made possible the recovery of its contents . |
| 11 | In the expansion of academic legal scholarship that has taken place in the past 20 years family law was one of the first of the traditional areas of study to be ‘ broadened ’ . |
| 12 | The company is now looking at a future that is brighter than for any time in the past 20 years . |
| 13 | In the past 20 years , however , there has been considerably more activity and publicity for econometrics in the UK , leading to often vigorous debate in specialist magazines such as Admap . |
| 14 | In 1981 , 39 per cent of West Indians and 41 per cent of Pakistanis were in semi-and unskilled jobs , which were generally located in inner-city areas — the very areas that have suffered the most dramatic and sustained decline in employment in the past 20 years . |
| 15 | All of chemistry now basically is becoming explicable in terms of quantum theory … we are getting , have been getting in the past 20 years , into the age where a sizeable amount of basic chemistry can now be properly understood from basic quantum theory . |
| 16 | There seems to have been little improvement in survival in patients with acute renal failure in the past 20 years . |
| 17 | The weight of the humble plastic carrier bag , for instance , has been reduced by a staggering 70 per cent in the past 20 years . |
| 18 | In the past 20 years we have gained enormously from our membership of the Community . |
| 19 | Given the history of European developments in the past 20 years , those people will also want to know why we did not learn from Britain 's earlier mistake . |
| 20 | Much RE writing in the past 20 years or so has centred on the raising of ultimate questions , and there has also been an insistence on developing in pupils skills of understanding and of handling these questions . |
| 21 | The Lorenz equations , named after Ed Lorenz who first introduced them as a model of a two-dimensional convection { 21 } , have been important for a number of different reasons at various times in the past 20 years or so . |
| 22 | Although it may not yet be easy to detect the overall depletion of atmospheric ozone in the whole of the northern hemisphere , there is evidence which suggests that Europe 's ozone layer has thinned by about 3 per cent in the past 20 years , according to research published earlier in the year . |
| 23 | Surveying rural poverty in 114 nations with sizeable rural landholding populations , the report shows that the number of people living below the poverty line has increased by 40 per cent in the past 20 years . |
| 24 | Speaking at a London conference , Tom Garvey , deputy director-general of the environment directorate , said he was disappointed at the lack of improvement in EC water quality in the past 20 years . |
| 25 | ‘ But if long-term improvements in economic performance are determined largely by the supply side , we have seen all too often in the past 20 years how short-term prospects can be blown off course by inflation . |
| 26 | That could be seen as a minor complaint when the Forestry Commission 's marketing efforts in the past 20 years have attracted investment of more than £1 billion in wood processing . |