Example sentences of "only [prep] [art] [num ord] few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only within the last few years have doctors begun to realize that this microbe can cause disease . |
| 2 | It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre . |
| 3 | Although the pied flycatcher 's adultery has been known about since 1950 , it is only in the last few years that the scientist Rauno Alatalo and his colleagues , studying pied flycatchers in Sweden , have begun to unravel the finer details . |
| 4 | Its origins are disguised by its huge cob , and only in the last few years has genetic analysis teased out the whole truth about its humble cereal ancestry . |
| 5 | And I mean there has been up until fairly recently , it 's only in the last few years that relations have tended to get a bit better . |
| 6 | Only in the last few years have real efforts been made to equalize provision for different groups of the disabled and there is still a long way to go before we can claim to have adequate social security in this area . |
| 7 | It is only in the last few years , then , that new IT , mainly in the form of the microcomputer , has started to play a part in formal education . |
| 8 | He was a fan of the BCR though he came to know it only in the last few years of its life . |