Example sentences of "[art] [noun] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM will , of course , supply OS/2 with its machines , but its market share has fallen rapidly with the advent of low-cost clones , so the number of users out there may not be as high as might have been the case a few years ago . |
| 2 | The Economist a few years ago conceded that the new system had some merits , but carried with it some important disadvantages ; on the positive side The nomination process is certainly very costly , yet trying to engage the attention of a mass electorate scattered across a huge and diverse country is bound to be expensive . |
| 3 | Looking back on the decision a few years later , he interpreted it in these terms : " What I wanted was some counterweight to my changeable and restless inclinations , a science that could be pursued with cool impartiality , with cold logic , with regular work , without its results touching me at all deeply . " |
| 4 | The first here were from an assart only cut from the woods a few years back , it was a godsend indeed to them . |
| 5 | I know you can , I have been ice skating on er the rink a few years now |
| 6 | When I was in college in the States a few years back , we read about the pre-feminist lives of the middle-class young women in the 50s and early 60s . |
| 7 | ‘ The enterprise of the Leeds City management in securing Speirs would have staggered those responsible for the club a few years ago , ’ observed the Yorkshire Evening Post . |
| 8 | A painting by Brueghel the elder was lifted from the Courtauld a few years back . |
| 9 | I am sure members will be aware speed speedway received financial assistance from the Council a few years ago when they ran into difficulties . |
| 10 | Never done , any , any manual work , up , up until when he started packing in the shoes a few years ago . |
| 11 | What is the true story of the Japanese businessman who returned a stolen Impressionist painting to France and was decorated for it by President Mitterrand on the occasion of the reopening of the Louvre a few years ago ? |
| 12 | Nothing could be less conclusive than this sensational ending to a turgid and inflated romance , nor does Rider Haggard 's elaborate initial paraphernalia of the letter and package coming to the author from Holly after the old man 's death convince one any more successfully of the ‘ tragedy ’ of the lovers than does the equally elaborate account of the ‘ letter and two packets ’ containing Leo Vincey 's family history and Holly 's account of the events of She which , we are asked to believe , reached the author a few years after he had first seen Holly and the golden-haired hero Leo Vincey in a Cambridge street . |
| 13 | And the finding of the suit a few years ago was the start of the hunt that they now have every year , ’ she explained matter-of-factly as though it were the most usual thing in the world . |
| 14 | On a trip to the Dolomites a few years ago , four of us brought three different stoves between us rashly thinking we had all angles covered . |
| 15 | The BBC put on a programme about the event a few years ago , harping particularly on the fact that it had been hushed up until then . |
| 16 | In that advocacy , he was subsequently to acknowledge he had been unaware of the problems arising from the Cambridge Board 's maturing plans for such appointments and the issue of providing powers which were to become particularly difficult and threatening to the District a few years later . |
| 17 | Now the advice a few years er be from the s solicitor was not in quite the the th precisely these words but if somebody was leaving , I mean if the wife was leaving the husband , the instructions were basically Love , get your furniture out , hide it somewhere , and argue about who owns what afterwards . |
| 18 | Aquileia was a Roman centre and the original basilican cathedral was erected early in the fourth century but was destroyed by Attila the Hun a few years later . |
| 19 | He remembers driving up the road a few years ago and accosting a stranger who was dabbling in a stream with what looked like a frying-pan . |
| 20 | It 's much like the ‘ proper ’ animators flicking the acetates like one of those flick books that were all the rage a few years ago ( or the ‘ What the Butler Saw ’ machines at the end of the pier ) to see how the work has progressed . |
| 21 | Seems he bought a small-holding on the moor a few years back and set up these classes . |
| 22 | This represents an improvement over the situation a few years earlier , since in 1970 women earned only 63 per cent of men 's hourly rate , and only 55 per cent of men 's gross weekly pay . |
| 23 | says the Marquis ' ‘ They were not convinced , but the Japanese took up the idea a few years ago and they are now industry leaders . ’ |
| 24 | This sombre event , which was reported in the London Times , may have stimulated the construction a few years later of a strange mausoleum in Paisley . |
| 25 | A Princeton professor who investigated the campaigns a few years later put it more bitterly : ‘ Cynical pseudo-egalitarianism replaced an older commitment to the maintenance of national standards . ’ |
| 26 | And erm one of the girls that was on there became a very very famous soprano in the country , erm Connie Shackelock you 've probably not heard of her , she 's sort of a bit before your time but er she always used to sing Land of Hope and Glory on the last night of the Proms a few years ago . |
| 27 | These devices hit the headlines a few years back when two cars in the United States collided at a closing speed of some 70 miles per hour . |
| 28 | Alford , a former councillor , broke away from the party a few years ago , and has stood as an independent Labour candidate in local elections since . |
| 29 | One of those trees had blown over in a storm a few years later ; the other survived as a diseased and sterile relic . |
| 30 | He got me a ring a few years ago . |