Example sentences of "[conj] in [art] past few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Colonel always sought her out on the Thursday of her visit , and in the past few years he had , in the most circumspect manner , pressed his suit . |
| 2 | He is entirely right about the British contribution to Europe , both in the long term and in the past few years when much of the present shape of the Community has arisen from initiatives by this country . |
| 3 | And in the past few years we 've had to go into clearing as most other universities would do . |
| 4 | But in the past few years the trend has been in the opposite direction . |
| 5 | But in the past few years a phoenix has risen from the flames of Lakehurst . |
| 6 | Nature conservationists and farmers ( who both understand what does happen to abandoned land ) should know better , but in the past few years , seem to have become possessed by the same fear of some dark , prolific genie escaping from the bottle . |
| 7 | But in the past few years , the insurance market has been losing money , and it has turned out that the resources of even the richest people are less than infinite . |