Example sentences of "[art] [adj] few years [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the previous few years the soap factory had been losing business because of imports of synthetic detergents , mainly through Lever Bros , the local branch of Unilever . |
| 2 | For the first few years the Sunday School met in a private house , possibly that of a Mr Thomas Leathem . |
| 3 | For the first few years the maximum carriage length remained at 42ft . |
| 4 | For the first few years the work was concerned with the Old Red Sandstone along the southern margin of the Highlands but soon men were stationed at various points around the Grampians , including the Moray Firth area , and were advancing towards the higher ground . |
| 5 | For the first few years the remands were unopposed , since it would plainly have been inappropriate to proceed against the applicant whilst the Carrian prosecution was still afoot . |
| 6 | The CNAA could not establish boards for every subject component of degrees in education , and in the event for the first few years the Committee for Education , using a range of specialist panels in support , itself carried out the validation work . |
| 7 | During the past few years a number of different models for hospital services for attempted suicide patients have been developed . |
| 8 | But in the past few years a phoenix has risen from the flames of Lakehurst . |
| 9 | In the Past few years a number of small streets have been closed to traffic , and car-parking has been prohibited from the four central reservations in Avenida Arriaga . |
| 10 | But over the past few years a new breed of journalist has evolved — hungry , competitive and aggressive . |
| 11 | However , in the past few years a class of antigens has emerged that does not conform to this conventional pathway of antigen presentation . |
| 12 | Over the past few years the bourgeoisie has taken probably £10bn of completely untaxed , totally unearned capital profit from selling their houses . |
| 13 | The report noted that over the past few years the government departments had introduced competitive fee bidding for the appointment of consulting engineers leading to lower fee rates . |
| 14 | IN THE past few years the laws forbidding the sale of alcohol to teenagers have been weakened , in the sense that they are neither as just nor as realistic as they were . |
| 15 | But in the past few years the trend has been in the opposite direction . |
| 16 | In the past few years the appeal system has been successfully used to overcome the resistance of reluctant local authorities , and development has tended to proceed on an ad hoc basis with new centres sited where developers can acquire land easily rather than on the basis of any strategic plan . |
| 17 | The best known is the ‘ plain ’ blue variety ; over the past few years the new ‘ red ’ form has become very popular with Apistogramma enthusiast — this form has an orange-red centre to the caudal fin and a lot of orange-red in the dorsal , and is the type I am currently keeping and breeding . |
| 18 | Over the past few years the market has boomed : Dataquest expects portables to account for around half of PC sales by 1995 . |
| 19 | Over the past few years the Institute , under statute , has started to regulate its members ' insolvency , financial services and auditing work . |
| 20 | Although occasionally Dutch finance companies with Antillean parents ( taxed at a turn on the interest in the Netherlands ) are still seen , for the past few years the perceived wisdom has been that the Swiss finance branch structure is superior . |
| 21 | Over the past few years the pace of his acquisitions would make Rupert Murdoch blush . |
| 22 | For the past few years the incoming information has been startlingly similar from one season to the next . |
| 23 | Sir , Over the past few years the tide of public opinion has been turning strongly against smoking , but this tide of public opinion was stemmed somewhat , albeit inadvertently , by the valiant efforts by tobacco companies . |
| 24 | On the other hand , in the past few years the number of students in further education colleges in Wales has increased very considerably . |
| 25 | Inevitably with the rapid expansion of the past few years the University is experiencing difficulties in providing sufficient academic as well as residential accommodation . |
| 26 | My hon. Friend will be aware that as a result of the debt crisis , over the past few years the ECGD has accumulated a deficit of more than £4 billion which is , of course , a deficit that falls to the taxpayer . |
| 27 | Over the past few years the media across Europe have devoted increasing attention to what is often sen as an upsurge of political activity by ordinary citizens . |
| 28 | In the past few years the advent of AIDS has introduced a number of parasitic , bacterial and fungal diseases , some previously little known , that have proved to be highly pathogenic in immunocompromised patients . |
| 29 | In the past few years the advent of AIDS has introduced a number of parasitic , bacterial and fungal diseases , some previously little known , that have proved to be highly pathogenic in immunocompromised patients . |
| 30 | In the last few years a powerful controversy has arisen over whether the dinosaurs as a whole were cold-blooded , like all living reptiles ( and there is no doubt that dinosaurs were reptiles ) , or warm-blooded , resembling mammals in this respect . |