Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] few decades " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead we have seen the emergence of the enabling authority , where the Town Hall finds ways of allowing the private and voluntary sectors to undertake the work that , for the last few decades , it has itself accomplished . |
| 2 | Keyworth said then that anti-missile lasers are the stuff of fantasy for the next few decades . |
| 3 | Wages did not rise in proportion , and by the Spring of 1795 there was the extensive distress and threat of mass starvation which led , in May , to the infamous meeting of the magistrates at Speenhamland in Berkshire , an event which would have such an impact on poor-law provision for the next few decades . |
| 4 | During the past few decades , many academic psychologists have studied the phenomenon but it is still not possible to say exactly what hypnosis is . |
| 5 | Diatom analyses of long-term sediment cores from two lakes in south-west Scotland also revealed marked increases in acidity , especially beginning around 1850 but accelerating during the past few decades ( figure 4.9 ) . |
| 6 | Given that suspended particulates have been the subject of pollution control policies dating back to the nineteenth century , it is not surprising that total emissions and average urban concentrations of particulates have decreased markedly during the past few decades . |
| 7 | Considerable progress has been made in improving air quality in the United States during the past few decades but greater improvement is still needed ( figure 8.13 ) . |
| 8 | Citizenship , regarded in this way , has played an increasingly important part in political thought and controversy during the past few decades . |
| 9 | The social movements based upon the latter affiliations , which were discussed in Chapter 2 , have assumed much greater political importance during the past few decades , and their development , like that of youth movements , needs to be examined in relation to wider social changes . |
| 10 | But during the next few decades , nitrates and minerals in the Andes , wheat and beef in Argentina , and coffee in Brazil were to draw the railways outwards . |
| 11 | During the next few decades chlorine is expected to increase then decrease , while CO 2 is expected to increase continuously . |
| 12 | During the last few decades , despite the distress of individuals who are the victims of such social disorder , the problem has seemed relatively ‘ containable ’ in social terms . |
| 13 | The changes in these structures during the last few decades have altered the ground rules for everyone . |
| 14 | There have certainly been marked changes in Britain during the last few decades in both the ideals and practicalities of family life . |
| 15 | The position of women is often considered to have improved during the last few decades . |
| 16 | However , during the last few decades a further , more marked , decrease occurred from values around pH 6 to the present-day values of about pH 4.5 ( figure 4.8 ) . |
| 17 | But his practical , analytical development of Richards 's theory has been an important model for British criticism during the last few decades , and I will therefore conclude this section with a very brief indication of the difference between his and Richards 's approach . |
| 18 | ‘ The economic system of the last few decades has failed , ’ he said . |
| 19 | The characteristic feature of this sector is its heterogeneity , brought about by the changes of the last few decades . |
| 20 | It certainly begins to seem as though the materialist philosophy of the last few decades in the West was a myth just like any other , now that science is getting so weird , what with particles travelling back in time , and the fantastic strangeness of the new cosmology and chaos theory ( all those pretty Mandelbrot sets , and stuff about butterflies in China causing storms over the Atlantic ties in perfectly with the New Spirituality ) . |
| 21 | One of the most marvellous happenings of the past few decades is the way in which infective diseases have been brought under control and even virtually abolished by modern drugs and vaccines , better hygiene , safe water supplies , modern sewage systems . |
| 22 | The most noticeable feature of the past few decades however , has been the increasing instability of economic life . |
| 23 | The Tories are about to enter their third term of office having driven a knife through the heart of much of the more advanced social legislation of the past few decades . |
| 24 | If not , the ratification of Maastricht should not be taken as a signal that the Europe of the past few decades has been assured of perpetuity , but rather that a redefinition of its ambitions is overdue . |
| 25 | The latter was to become the orthodoxy of the next few decades , whereas Collingwood died in 1943 virtually in the shadows , for more reasons than one . |
| 26 | According to Charles Birkeland , the laboratory 's acting director , " within the last few decades , the increasingly intensive use of land , water bodies and the coast in Asia has created significant disturbance to coral reefs and the coastal environment " . |
| 27 | ASK ANY thoughtful person for a list of the problems likely to confront Britain in the next few decades and he or she will have no trouble answering . |
| 28 | In other long-established deaf centres , members began to arrange day outings now that omnibuses were more readily available , and these were to be a feature of deaf life in the next few decades . |
| 29 | These cogitations are worth quoting in full , as they so accurately reflect , albeit in a more lucid form than that usually encountered , the thinking of those who in the next few decades were to give away the empire in the belief that they were acting to preserve it . |
| 30 | Fourth , with the likely acquisition of nuclear weapons by at least some additional states in the next few decades , the need for some clear rules of the road so far as nuclear weapons are concerned may actually increase . |