Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] decade [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For British readers , the first model — which has been in the political , if not the economic , ascendancy for the past decade and more — is the more familiar . |
| 2 | They have both carried the burden of bearing the brunt for Britain in international competition for the last decade and more . |
| 3 | But for the next decade or more , nearly all orchestral and instrumental music was issued in cut-down form , without any warning being given . |
| 4 | This week 's riot by 150 schoolgirls at Wimbledon station will almost certainly prove to be the crucial event of the election period , and the one which sets the tone for the next decade or so . |
| 5 | For the next decade or so most local authorities stumbled , enthused , muddled and reorganised their secondary schools into a comprehensive form . |
| 6 | My hon. Friend underlines the confusion which has reigned over the project , certainly during the past decade and probably for some time before that . |
| 7 | During the past decade or so a number of investigators have used electrophysiological techniques to study hemispheric specialisation of function , usually in right handers . |
| 8 | However , during the past decade or so , the Polytechnic has made considerable progress and has continued to develop a wide range of degree , sub-degree and professional courses . |
| 9 | But as the reader will be aware , during the past decade or so , the courts , building on a series of decisions which quite properly and logically held ineffective a number of ingenious and entirely artificial schemes devised for the manufacture and allowance of losses or expenses which were never in fact incurred , have sought to create and apply to transactions conferring tax advantages for which the legislature has made provision a doctrine of ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ , the general effect of which is that even though the citizen follows to the letter that which Parliament has told him that he can do in order to attract the fiscal consequences which Parliament has statutorily decreed will follow if he does it , nevertheless , whatever Parliament may have said shall be the consequences , the courts will and must decline to give effect , not to what he has done , but to the fiscal consequences which Parliament has provided , unless he demonstrates that there was a ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ for his action . |
| 10 | During the last decade or so , however , an interest in and recognition of the importance of religion in society has re-emerged . |
| 11 | During the last decade or so cephalaspids have been re-examined in great detail . |
| 12 | During the last decade or so a wide range of what were once considered to be mundane or esoteric problems concerning the English countryside have been thrust to the forefront of public attention by the apparently sudden and widespread increase in anxiety about ‘ the environment ’ . |
| 13 | The period of authoritarian rule has given way during the last decade or so to a democratic system that is still consolidating itself . |
| 14 | That was particularly true now that land values were no longer inflating at the rate of the last decade or so . |
| 15 | Only within the past decade or so have accountants themselves fully appreciated the wider ramifications of capital expenditure and the need to consult ant utilise the skills of other ‘ experts ’ such as marketing managers . |
| 16 | This ritual was practised until the last decade or so but has apparently now ceased , which is perhaps in the best interests of the dolphins . |
| 17 | Whether Britain will witness electoral reform in the next decade or so rests on the outcome of that debate . |
| 18 | The rapidly rising cost of social security was a major reason for the Government 's reform of community care , outlined in the White Paper , ‘ Caring for People : Community Care in the Next Decade and Beyond ’ . |
| 19 | When the Social Services ' Committee raised concerns about basic definitions for collaborative working and about the apparent overlap between the care programme approach and care management , the Secretary of State for Health referred them to Community Care in the Next Decade and Beyond — Policy Guidance . |
| 20 | Although this species has occurred more regularly in the past decade than formerly , no very significant change in status seems likely . |
| 21 | Surely the proof of any pudding , however , is in the eating and there is little doubt that acupuncture has gained credence and acceptance in the past decade or so . |
| 22 | All of this can come as no surprise , since one of the greatest difficulties which confronts the medical legal commentator in dealing with the treatment of the terminally ill is that techniques and technology have developed and changed with such rapidity in the past decade or so that it is only vaguely that the problems are perceived , let alone responded to by developing a general consensus in the form of law . |
| 23 | Patients without endoscopic oesophagitis or with the presence of erosions at the distal oesophagus are younger , usually in the fourth decade and mainly women , while patients with Barrett 's oesophagus ( uncomplicated and complicated with ulcer and/ or stricture ) are significantly older ( usually in the fifth decade ) and mainly men . |
| 24 | Civil liberties have also been eroded in the last decade or more by government efforts to suppress media comment , criticism and reporting in cases such as the Spycatcher , Ponting and Tisdall affairs . |
| 25 | Many books published in the last decade or so seem to underline the importance of ‘ anticipatory grieving ’ , with the result that relatives and friends can be forced into expressing emotion they may not yet be ready to express . |
| 26 | Citizenship has increasingly attracted the attention of politicians , public figures , political scientists and academic lawyers in the last decade or so . |
| 27 | To give a brief example , in Nepal population pressure has in the last decade or so brought about many intensifications of cropping patterns such as the introduction of wheat as a winter crop . |
| 28 | This emphasis is partly due to the background of the researchers involved ( many are human geographers and sociologists ) and partly because it is only really since the Second World War that major hazards have been monitored systematically , culminating , of course , in the last decade or so in the use of satellite technology . |
| 29 | Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup . |
| 30 | There has been an enormous amount of employment legislation in the last decade or so , and haulage companies have had to integrate this with the already extensive legal requirements which govern their operations . |