Example sentences of "[art] [adj] few years [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Over the past few years wind generators and solar panels have become cheaper .
3 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 .
4 As Mr Gladstone has pointed out , in the last few years progress has been far more rapid because improved education has created in all classes of the community an increased desire and appetite for literature which did not formerly exist , and that can only be supplied by means of such public libraries in which we are now met .
5 It seems likely that in the next few years funding will be increased minimally and competition will also grow .
6 Mr Knight anticipates that over the next few years manufacturing capacity will expand and business may be further developed via a joint venture .
7 It is thus possible that in the course of the next few years Council will assign the headship for a period to the holder of the Halford Mackinder Professorship , who will among those carrying an obligation to serve if so requested .
8 In the town itself over the next few years Class meetings were formed in West Street , Corcrain , Edenderry , Levaghery , Lisniskey and Kernan .
9 Over the next few years Japanese took over much of the administration and established mechanisms for economic pre-eminence .
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