Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] few [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past few decades researchers have shown that chimps can create artworks ( abstract thought ) , use tools in a quite sophisticated fashion , and understand the concept of language : humans and chimps can use sign languages like Ameslan to communicate with each other to a reasonably advanced level . |
| 2 | Over the past few games McAllister might as well stayed in bed for all he did IMHO . |
| 3 | The directing principle of this work is that over the past few centuries sexuality has assumed major symbolic importance as a target of social intervention and organisation , to a degree that differentiates this period from those preceding it . |
| 4 | But having followed his behaviour over the past few Christmas seasons , I can not help wondering what sort of cringing helot population is to be found in the County of Nottingham which is prepared to put up with such a Chief Constable . |
| 5 | OVER the past few weeks Spain 's government has spared no effort to defend the peseta within Europe 's battered exchange-rate mechanism . |
| 6 | OVER THE past few years Britain and her European allies have been trying to adapt a system designed to catch Warsaw Pact spies to the task of hunting international terrorists . |
| 7 | Over the past few years galleries have been springing up in Berlin 's Fasanenstrasse and its surrounding district , making it the ideal starting point for a gallery tour . |
| 8 | But over the past few years fashion for men has experienced something of a silent revolution , with smoother lines and looser fits becoming ever more popular . |
| 9 | Over the past few years wind generators and solar panels have become cheaper . |
| 10 | Over the last few months SCOTVEC and the National Council for Vocational Qualifications ( NCVQ ) have collaborated to produce a joint statement , the main feature of which is an agreement that SVQs and NVQs are compatible in their essential features and that there will be mutual recognition of these throughout the UK . |
| 11 | Over the last few years work has been carried out on using machine readable dictionaries as a source of linguistic knowledge ( Amsler , 1981 ) , ( Boguraev & Briscoe , 1987 ) — thereby enabling the production of a large vocabulary lexicon for considerably less effort than was previously required . |
| 12 | Over the previous few years capitalists had been hit by the European wage explosions and a general worsening of industrial relations . |
| 13 | To play a part in the problems of geology over the next few decades geomorphologists must forget their trivial catchments and see mega forests instead of trees … |
| 14 | Over the next few decades community life-style in Britain is likely to become increasingly diverse . |
| 15 | Over the next few minutes Wickham learned that MacQuillan had not wanted to leave Barron in control anywhere , that Maureen and Barron had been and still were jockeying for position and that Maureen had enlisted Hunter-Blair 's support . |
| 16 | Over the next few months Ivy is at the heart of a gruelling Street storyline . |
| 17 | Over the next few months supplies of Intel 's new Pentium microprocessor will trickle on to the market . |
| 18 | Over the next few months Endill began to hate his schoolwork more and more ; not because it was difficult and boring but because he thought what the teachers taught him was of no use . |
| 19 | Over the next few weeks Avril and Peter , a Royal Mail executive , gradually got to know each other , but they remained just good friends . |
| 20 | Mr Knight anticipates that over the next few years manufacturing capacity will expand and business may be further developed via a joint venture . |
| 21 | All in all , however , over the next few years things in general appeared to be going well enough . |
| 22 | In the town itself over the next few years Class meetings were formed in West Street , Corcrain , Edenderry , Levaghery , Lisniskey and Kernan . |
| 23 | Over the next few years Yakovlev continued to design and build a variety of successful single-engined biplanes and monoplanes and in July 1934 he was given a derelict bed factory on Moscow Leningradski Prospekt where he set up his own OKB and this has remained the headquarters ever since and also now holds the Museum . |
| 24 | Over the next few years Japanese took over much of the administration and established mechanisms for economic pre-eminence . |
| 25 | Over the next few years Coatings ' coil operations in will join the new joint venture . |
| 26 | Over the next few afternoons Mrs Phelps could hardly take her eyes from the small girl sitting for hour after hour in the big armchair at the far end of the room with the book on her lap . |
| 27 | Over the next few days Pope John talked with groups such as the press and the observers . |
| 28 | Over the next few days Maggie slowly got closer to Ana de Santis . |
| 29 | Over the next few days Stevens confirmed his hunch . |
| 30 | Over the next few days Sir Robin could need all the native cunning and tact he once showed as a cricket captain to deal with the political uncertainty many expect after the election . |