Example sentences of "of [art] [num ord] few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a careful review of the first few years after reorganisation , a group of academics from the London School of Economics assessed the performance of the new London local authorities ( Rhodes 1972 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh yes , there have n't been the spectacular rises of the first few years , but we could guarantee a growth figure which more than copes with inflation . |
| 3 | Kelman 's work forms part of a flowering of talent which has come about in the urban Scotland of the last few years . |
| 4 | After the patience of the last few years , he wrote , why this sudden impatience ? |
| 5 | The party leadership wanted to ban all strikes because it is terrified of an upsurge in Russian and Ukrainian working-class militancy which , it correctly realises , could be more dangerous to the regime than all the ethnic disturbances of the last few years combined . |
| 6 | They said 1990 would be fairly gloomy , with little increase in the number of houses being sold ( currently sales are running at about a third of the level of the last few years ) and no movement in prices throughout the UK . |
| 7 | ‘ The Prime Minister has clearly stated her intention to bring about the industrial regeneration of Britain to correct the decline of the last few years , ’ he said vigorously . |
| 8 | It was an odd thing to say ( it would n't matter if the film was brilliant — it would still probably provoke mirth among non-believers ) , but then it was also an odd thing to see in a film which was presumably trying to revamp the alien invasion genre for a new age , because it was such a throwback to the cinematic aliens of the last few years . |
| 9 | The hot summers and mild winters of the last few years have added several of more unusual colonisers . |
| 10 | The literature of the last few years is thronged with papers proposing that these must be taken into account — but with few realistic proposals on how this is to be achieved . |
| 11 | Currently places within airlines are few and far between , but virtually all employable aircrew made jobless by the airline failures of the last few years have found new positions , although not always within the UK . |
| 12 | The sharp fall in turnover of the last few years means that many people who might otherwise have entered the housing market currently remain outside it . |
| 13 | In FACE 46 you complimented a new club in Leeds , saying it was a refreshing change to the frenzied sweaty Ecstasy nights of the last few years . |
| 14 | By that date , he was an ailing man , and apart from his routine duties , his first tasks were to clear up the muddles of the last few years and re-establish an acceptable procedure for future episcopal elections , investitures , and acts of homage . |
| 15 | Developments of the last few years within mainstream nursery settings as well as within ‘ special needs ’ contexts demonstrate a commitment to dealing with the whole child , taking into account major influences on his/her life and progress . |
| 16 | The group aims to provide a kind of one-stop shop for standards and specifications in a buyer 's marketplace , which it believes is replacing the vendor-dominated open systems space of the last few years . |
| 17 | There are indications that this at last is changing , partly because of the court cases of the last few years . |
| 18 | The BDA 's involvement in Europe is from a historical point of view likely to be seen in years to come as the finest achievement of the last few years . |
| 19 | It 's been one of the success stories of the last few years , managing to get through the culture barrier where the local authority thought a small unit was 15 or 20 people working down and the health service thought a small unit was 120 and worked down with great reluctance . |
| 20 | World trends come and go but the army of unemployed grows forever ; now economists are predicting that there will be no foreseeable end to the trend of the last few years . |
| 21 | He looked around the room where she had spent much of the last few years . |
| 22 | In general , however , Haycocks III has been regarded as the least important of the three reports and the difficult financial climate of the last few years has meant that its recommendations have been given a low priority . |
| 23 | ‘ We did n't have a good season by our standards of the last few years . |
| 24 | A local contest is set to be introduced covering pubs , restaurants , hotels , shops and offices , schools , individual gardens and allotments , in a bid to boost the limited participation of the last few years . |
| 25 | The house price collapse of the last few years has been a terrible dose of cold turkey for the home owning classes , but has it been a long enough agony to drive out the idea that there 's something inherently beneficial about rising house prices . |
| 26 | Perhaps one of the most important developments of the last few years has been a steady but widespread trend towards protectionism . |
| 27 | Suggestions that small and medium enterprises are going to find life particularly difficult in the labour market of the next few years are also made in a study of recruitment problems by the Local Economy Research Unit at Hatfield Polytechnic . |
| 28 | No one could foresee that over the course of the next few years the steel industry would be successfully reorganized and taken into the private sector . |
| 29 | THE HISTORY OF THE NEXT FEW YEARS . |
| 30 | He made over forty transcriptions of the sonnets ‘ as the best presents I could offer to those , who had in any way won my regard ’ , and in his own poetic experiments of the next few years found an important model in the work of the now-forgotten Wiltshire priest . |