Example sentences of "only [art] [det] years [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As has been seen , while the Napier Commission favoured the enlargement of the crofts to improve their economic viability , the legislation passed only a few years later tended instead to perpetuate them in their existing form . |
| 2 | Yet only a few years later , the Royal Commission of 1954–1957 recommended radical changes with a new policy of community integration . |
| 3 | His geographically-based nomenclature was however superseded by that devised only a few years later by Giovanni Riccioli , a Jesuit priest . |
| 4 | After Mary 's accession in 1553 , considerable numbers of images , vestments , chalices , and crucifixes did indeed reappear in parish churches throughout the country , but only a few years later many of them were to fall foul of renewed attacks on images at the beginning of Elizabeth 's reign . |
| 5 | The point is that the Council took decisions that appeared revolutionary enough in the context of Catholic life as it had hitherto been , but that , only a few years later , seemed instead as rather cautious half-measures requiring very considerable extension . |
| 6 | It was to the credit of Philip IV that he laid the foundations for a dockyard at Rouen , while only a few years later in England , Edward II , whose father had built some galleys , was to possess a small squadron of ‘ royal ’ ships . |
| 7 | In addition , he has pursued his own passion for the painted interior decoration of this particular kind and scale of East Anglian yeoman farmhouse — a type of house that , only a few years ago , was hardly considered worthy of notice , so complete was the obsession of historians with work by named architects . |
| 8 | Where tropical forest grew only a few years ago , a vast desert is now rapidly engulfing inland Brazil spreading at a rate of several miles a year . |
| 9 | What appeared an important strand in forward-looking European defence planning only a few years ago — when the new Europe sought a measure of independence from the US defence umbrella — looks more questionable now . |
| 10 | What appeared an important strand in forward-looking European defence planning only a few years ago — when the new Europe sought a measure of independence from the US defence umbrella — looks more questionable now . |
| 11 | Hence the burgeoning popularity of the Bharatiya Janata Party : a fringe party of Hindu extremists only a few years ago , it looks as though it could be part of a government after the election . |
| 12 | Economists and politicians are already celebrating the disappearance of these huge external imbalances — even those who only a few years ago claimed that current-account deficits did not matter . |
| 13 | It has now been restored to a superb family home by the present Lord and Lady Feversham and it is hard to imagine that only a few years ago the house was little more than an empty , echoing shell . |
| 14 | The result is that the Viking badge today adorns a range of cars that only a few years ago would have been impossible to imagine . |
| 15 | The fords at first included were later replaced by some 40 bridges , many of which still stand , and many miles of the original road were in use until only a few years ago . |
| 16 | Ironically perhaps , supplies of some semiconductors which were popular only a few years ago seem to have completely dried up , whereas most valves of around 50 years ago are still available . |
| 17 | Only a few years ago , in their efforts to quell the excessive and unhealthy use of laxatives , many doctors were insisting that it did not matter . |
| 18 | But while Kaohsiung 's attention to quality is not unique to Yamaha ( and we should n't forget that lower rejection rates also benefit the manufacturer , translating into lower cost per unit ) , their pioneering attitude , honouring quality above all else , has helped raise the standard of Far Eastern guitars to levels which would have been unthinkable only a few years ago . |
| 19 | Only a few years ago it was a considerable achievement to fly a model helicopter at all . |
| 20 | ‘ Only a few years ago he criticised me for speaking to the press and said I should never do it again . |
| 21 | ‘ Only a few years ago they were plenty of colliers playing rugby in Wales . |
| 22 | ‘ I met Nigel only a few years ago . |
| 23 | However , there is a great deal of public confusion about the nature of black holes : only a few years ago a television serial depicted astronauts landing on the surface-of one ! |
| 24 | Carbon fibre technology has taken pole vaulting to heights unimaginable only a few years ago . |
| 25 | Presenting art that reflects or comments on news events or , more broadly , on history , seems to be the new orientation of the Whitney Museum , which only a few years ago was more likely to devote Biennial space to the rising stars of New York 's booming gallery scene . |
| 26 | Only a few years ago a drug 's prospects were easy to calculate . |
| 27 | It is only a few years ago that we were being warned about the arrival of another ice age , for heavens ' sake ! |
| 28 | And er the it was a sort of for , I remember erm only a few years ago in Harlow we had a discussion group there was somebody there and I I think I 've still got the piece about that . |
| 29 | Acts such as those involving homosexuality or abortion would , only a few years ago , have been held up as examples of ‘ hardcore ’ deviance . |
| 30 | The scope of Mareva injunctions has expanded at a remarkable speed , and on many points ( and especially the territorial reach of injunctions ) events have overtaken cases decided only a few years ago . |