Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] few years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first few years at Rangers , he was sent off for striking five different opponents . |
| 2 | In the first few years of the informal concordat under the RAC , there appears to have been a tacit agreement that in Cambridgeshire the WEA attempted to provide few courses , largely it is thought because of its financial problems . |
| 3 | The scholar , Hector Boece , first Principal of Aberdeen University , writing about Ayrshire in the first few years of the 16th century , observed that , , another indication of the age of the legend . |
| 4 | In the first few years of the 19th century , the manufacture of wooden snuff boxes — sneeshin' mulls , as they were known — began in Ayrshire in Auchinleck , Ochiltree and Cumnock . |
| 5 | In the first few years of marriage , before the decision to have a baby is made , reparative work is about intimate pairing and what was felt to have been betrayed in the first partnership of life with the main attachment figure . |
| 6 | One consequence of the rise in private asset ownership among elderly people is that many of them do not suffer any drastic reduction of their ability to consume on retirement : indeed , tax changes in the 1970s that encouraged pension schemes to pay out some of their assets as a lump sum mean that many retirees experience an increase in their consumption propensity in the first few years of retirement . |
| 7 | For example , one of the skills developed in the first few years of life involves the integration of data arriving through the different sensory channels . |
| 8 | Its component elements are absorbed in the first few years of life largely unconsciously , and later more deliberately by informal and formal learning processes . |
| 9 | Children who witness sexual intercourse in the first few years of their lives see it as a sort of ill-treatment , an assault by the man on the woman ; ‘ they view it that is in a sadistic sense ’ . |
| 10 | Patsy was a sickly child , growing very little in the first few years of his life . |
| 11 | The question of the birth rate was to be more crucial in the years after the Education Act , in the debates around the Royal Commission on Population , which reported in 1948–49 , but the existence of the commission itself from 1943 demonstrates public and official concern with such ideas in the first few years of the war . |
| 12 | The Group will continue to provide support for Central America Week in March , and will be investigating in the first few years of the five year period the possibility of raising the profile of the Andean countries . |
| 13 | State socialism has not been very successful in transferring technology between countries , and has brought its own kind of exploitation ( as the Yugoslavs discovered in the first few years after the war ) . |
| 14 | On April 14 Kaunda told Radio Zambia that in view of Zambia 's experiences in the first few years after independence , when more than one party had operated , " the question of whether the multiparty system will solve Zambia 's problems is a yes-and-no situation which has to be considered very cautiously " . |
| 15 | In the first few years in a district the officer learns about his territory as thoroughly as possible . |
| 16 | These are likely to be hefty in the next few years as the European Community ( EC ) tightens the rules on drinking water and imposes new ones on sewage disposal . |
| 17 | The major British companies have all suffered considerable loses in the past few years with the cancellation of Proxicromil ( Fisons ) , the halting of research on Tiotidine ( ICI ) and questions surrounding other drugs such as Ranitidine ( Glaxo ) . |
| 18 | We 're particularly aggrieved because we suffered very badly from the storm in 1987 and we 've been struggling in the past few years of drought to replant , ’ said Mr Myers . |
| 19 | So in the past few years since Big Bang we have seen dealers chasing every hare , especially since dealing volumes declined and firms have been more desperate to do business . |
| 20 | It concerns privatisations that have taken place in the past few years under processes and with measures of regulation which the Government said were more than adequate , dismissing all our criticisms . |
| 21 | An investigation undertaken in the past few years by the United Nations found that ‘ … in the majority of reporting agencies , computer staff … have chief responsibility for management policies relating to e-mail communications … |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | This had begun to develop significantly in the past few years in terms of quality . |
| 24 | We have been most successful in the past few years in attracting investment from 18 countries . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Lafaille , a 26-years-old professional guide from Gap , has emerged in the last few years as a climber of unique all round ability . |
| 27 | Although the numbers of part-time teachers have declined in the last few years as a result of financial stringency , their contribution to the colleges remains important . |
| 28 | I have a high regard for Foresterhill and what it has achieved in the last few years under this Government . |
| 29 | You 've worked in the last few years with Prince . |
| 30 | Michael Mason , editor of Capital Gay newspaper and involved in the gay movement for more than 20 years , said : ‘ There have been enormous changes but there is evidence in the last few years of an increase in queer-bashing by men aged 15–23 who have difficulty coping with their own sexuality . ’ |