Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The signs are that the next few years will see some extensive soul-searching about art history ; several books have already appeared . |
| 2 | Nonlinear optics is perhaps unique among systems showing chaos in that a fully quantum mechanical description of the phenomena is conceivable : there is the interesting and exciting prospect that the next few years may reveal what , if anything , is meant by " quantum turbulence " , and all-optical systems such as those described or proposed above are likely to be in the forefront of experimental tests of such concepts . |
| 3 | As a result of the House of Lords ' decision in Russell v Northern Bank [ 1992 ] 1 WLR 588 , it is likely that the next few years will see the return in popularity of " golden shares " . |
| 4 | I have to be honest and say that the last few years have not been as good as I would have expected . |
| 5 | Writing in The Executive Grapevine , he sees natural competition between search firms as enough to foster and maintain their quality , and considers that the last few years have witnessed a weeding-out of the less professional outfits resulting in fewer and better consultants . |
| 6 | It may not be too extreme to suggest that the last few years have seen a quiet revolution in the direction taken by our thinking about writing development and the teaching of writing in schools . |
| 7 | Roberts argued that up until the last few years , apart from a very few studies made by certain women scholars , women were notable in British sociology mainly by their absence . |
| 8 | Until the last few years the entire auto industry was so fixed in its opposition to small cars as to leave the market for them to foreign firms . |
| 9 | Until the last few years , the thought that one might have microscopic techniques sensitive enough to actually see tiny changes in the structure of neurons and their synapses as a result of learning seemed improbable — to start with , one would need to have a very good idea where to look and what to measure in the brain . |
| 10 | The law on sex discrimination has provoked very little litigation in the educational context until the past few years , in contrast to the wealth of judicial consideration of the provisions concerned with sex equality in employment ( see Chapter 9 ) . |
| 11 | And the past few years have been good years of course |
| 12 | This has already happened in microelectronics and the last few years have seen a revolution in this respect . |
| 13 | French financial markets have benefited from deregulation in the 1980s , and the last few years have witnessed an acceleration in financial innovation in France . |
| 14 | Steve Douglas 's Fanzine ‘ Go for It ’ started this year , and from a piece of folded photocopied paper , it eventually went on to become a printed glossy skate mag covering much of the skate scene at the time and the next few years for which the Farnborough scene played a major part if not the main part . |
| 15 | You 're going to spend the next few months hanging over them with your heart thumping in case they 've stopped breathing and the next few years after that stopping them committing suicide because a perfectly ordinary house has turned into a minefield of electricity and stairs and windows and boiling kettles . |
| 16 | Novell 's network products are mostly for PCs , but the next few years will see them move into the traditional minicomputer market with support for a number of minicomputer systems , thus re-enforcing their dominance . |
| 17 | I 'm sure he was , but the last few years when I knew him he 'd gotten a lot of respect from people and he was n't having to struggle any more , and I think he knew the people loved him and he liked that . |
| 18 | Whereas the last few years have seen women such as Liz Fraser , Kristin Hersh and Mary Margaret O'Hara shred the conventions of writing and performance , marrying impressionistic , ‘ illogical ’ words with disturbed vocalising , Lambert 's songs are still very much stuck in the singer-songwriter tradition of narrative and description . |
| 19 | Whereas the last few years have seen women such as Liz Fraser , Kristin Hersh and Mary Margaret O'Hara shred the conventions of writing and performance , marrying impressionistic , ‘ illogical ’ words with disturbed vocalising , Lambert 's songs are still very much stuck in the singer-songwriter tradition of narrative and description . |
| 20 | This trick has been used since the last few years of the Vietnam war , and does not rely on any particularly outlandish circuitry . |
| 21 | They include a club promoter , at least one DJ and at least two dancers who 've been associated with the scene we 've been involved with for the last few years |
| 22 | There had n't been so much of that though the last few years . |