Example sentences of "[prep] [art] past few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real significance of these comparisons remains unknown , as do the real workings of the dolphin mind , but it seems that dolphins and porpoises achieved their modern enlarged brains about 15–20 million years ago , whereas the evolution of the human brain is a phenomenon of the past few million years at the most . |
| 2 | When this unlikely idea was first launched in England and Canada , the exact pattern of the past few million years of pole reversals had yet to be charted . |
| 3 | The definite article is important , for what it suggests is that the modern notion of sexuality — both the importance we assign to it , and the theoretical unification it implies — is an historical construct of the past few hundred years . |
| 4 | Consequently , one can not securely argue that these stars demonstrate that massive star formation has taken place in the nucleus within the past few million years , and that massive star formation continues there . |
| 5 | There is no doubt that major volcanic eruptions have affected the climate of the northern hemisphere in the past few hundred years ( see ‘ Do volcanoes affect the climate ? ’ |
| 6 | So in the past few hundred years Europe has been , as Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has suggested , constituted and consolidated as ‘ sovereign subject , indeed sovereign and subject ’ . |
| 7 | Caught between tears and laughter , she rushed into his arms , only now realising how much she 'd missed his strength over the past few trying weeks . |
| 8 | However , the Pacific-North American plate boundary has undergone significant changes over the past few million years with the subduction of part of the East Pacific Rise spreading ridge and the evolution of a predominantly transform margin . |
| 9 | Of course , it is feasible that the Greeks were more sharp-sighted than we are , and certainly their skies were clearer ; but it is equally likely that Merope has dimmed a fair deal over the past few thousand years — in other words , that it is a variable star with a period of at least several thousand years . |