Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [art] few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Romance ’ from The Gadfly became , of course , a popular favourite a few years ago when it was used as the theme for the TV series Reilly : Ace of Spies , but as played here by the Chicago Sinfonietta under Paul Freeman it 's altogether drier ad more reticent — no comparison at all with the recording by the USSR Cinema SO under Emin Khachaturian on CfP which glows with warmth and stylish authenticity . |
| 2 | Vincent was sold into private ownership and was reborn as a very luxurious yacht a few years later , often to be seen and remarked on by cutter crews in yachting circles . |
| 3 | It lurks in the pages of Lindsay 's Essentials of Democracy , to which reference has already been made , and it was raised from a slightly different angle a few years later by Harold Laski , when he asked " whether political democracy has not , so to say , arrived too late upon the scene to control the total process by which it is confronted . " |
| 4 | At Faial there is a new bridge over the Ribeira Seca as the old one was washed away in a violent storm a few years ago . |
| 5 | Akai tried a similar idea a few years back with their U4 phrase trainer , but that was , surprisingly , a flop . |
| 6 | When I visited the Edison National Historic Site a few years ago , my guide told me that the full resources of his employer ( the United States Government ) had failed to break one ; but to find out exactly what was inside the quarter-inch slab , they had borrowed a diamond saw and cut one in half . |
| 7 | The township got electric light a few years ago , yet for as long as anyone could remember power-station cooling stacks had blasted out steam day and night ; the power went to white Johannesburg a few miles down the road . |
| 8 | Pioneering research a few years ago by American chemists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Ponns , was dismissed as a false dawn and ‘ con fusion ’ . |
| 9 | Pioneering work a few years ago by Keith Waters at Middlesex Polytechnic experimented with a computer-generated version of Spitting Image . |
| 10 | An example of this might be the " embourgeoisement theory " which enjoyed widespread currency a few years ago in sociology , and which argued that the " working class " , in Britain , were becoming more like the " middle class " in their aspirations , consumption patterns and political views . |
| 11 | What seemed to be well-established doctrine a few years ago may now be the subject of extensive debate . |
| 12 | Fortunately ( for us ) the commissioners of depopulation in 1517 discovered that Hygford 's father had enclosed 190 acres of arable land a few years earlier ; estimated to be worth £6 a year , this was probably all , or most , of what he owned there . |
| 13 | PTGI 's retail trade distribution is handled by GBS , originally set up to market Guinness Black Shandy a few years ago . |
| 14 | I explained that I 'd found someone to substitute for me — one of the Carter boys was looking for holiday work — but he kept making objections about unqualified staff , mentioning a notorious case a few years earlier when one malcontent teacher wreaked his revenge by teaching a group of teenage Italians that the English greet each other in the street with the phrase ‘ Piss off , wanker . ’ |
| 15 | Now I do n't know if you remember English Whites but Danny Baker once had a caller to 606 who claimed to have been setup for a blind date a few years ago , and when he met the girl in question , one of his mates says ‘ Bloody hell she does n't half look like that player ( Kenny ) who 's in the Blues ’ ( Brum City where he built his stout reputation ) . |
| 16 | In its wisdom , the Community felt able to do that for the Iberian peninsula a few years ago and it would be right and proper for it to do something analogous for the central European countries . |
| 17 | When the Alternative Service Book was threatening the absolutism of the Book of Common Prayer a few years ago , the Book of Common Prayer was being spoken of as if it were on a par with Holy Writ . |
| 18 | I it 's a big upheaval every few years is n't it |
| 19 | If we believe that it is right to push back the boundaries of middle age a few years , we can happily keep our young tastes and looks for a bit longer . |
| 20 | ‘ There was a rare scandal a few years ago , though to be sure it was hushed up very swiftly — but some of us heard of it , naturally . ’ |
| 21 | FORMER Darlington mayor Jimmy Whelan , expelled from the Labour Party a few years back for alleged municipal disloyalty , is strolling the town with a ‘ Vote Alan Milburn ’ badge in his lapel . |
| 22 | They went into a quiet period a few years ago it was very quiet erm but er yes they 're they 're going strong . |
| 23 | There was a general feeling among the local community a few years ago that academic standards at the school had slipped , and many parents opted for other schools in the area for their children . |
| 24 | It brought onto Chinese territory Russian forces whose reluctance to withdraw from the province of Manchuria sparked off the Russo-Japanese War a few years later . |
| 25 | Robert had scarlet fever a few years later . |
| 26 | The event might not have any obvious long-term adverse significance and may in fact have seemingly positive rather than negative features , such as the reappearance and request to renew contact with a lover with whom a person had had an intense relationship a few years earlier . |
| 27 | As members will recall , the Association petitioned for a Royal Charter a few years ago . |
| 28 | When tartrazine was receiving a bad press a few years ago , the Arnett brothers decided to stop using artificial colours altogether , but the outcome was far from positive . |