Example sentences of "[art] [adj] decade or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1962 H. H. Hess , of Princeton University in the USA , published a radical explanation for much of the geological data that had been accumulating over the previous decade or so . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Over the past decade or so we have also seen changes in our lifestyle with dogs . |
| 4 | This is just one more sign that the courts may be balancing the scales of justice a little more fairly than has been the case over the past decade or so . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Prompted by the rapid development of medical technology over the past decade or so , the medical community has come to reject the notion that death is associated exclusively with breathing and heartbeat , the ‘ vital functions ’ . |
| 7 | Over the past decade or so , all this has changed . |
| 8 | SALES of mistletoe at Christmas have been reducing over the past decade or so . |
| 9 | Over the past decade or so , there has been evidence to show that an increasing number of low-paid families in work were caught in the poverty trap . |
| 10 | During the past decade or so a number of investigators have used electrophysiological techniques to study hemispheric specialisation of function , usually in right handers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When considering transport , it is fashionable to say that transport has changed dramatically over the past decade or so , and no one would deny that . |
| 13 | Therefore , it is fair to ask why we are so keen on public transport if all experience over the past decade or so shows a fall in rail and bus passenger services and traffic in rural areas and in cities . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | What has been the subject of radical , almost revolutionary , change over the past decade or so has not been the civic culture but the perceptions of that culture . |
| 17 | Employee trusts have increased in popularity over the past decade or so as a method of providing incentives for employees . |
| 18 | In RENFE , collective bargaining over the past decade or so has basically been a process of dismantling the framework of Francoist labour regulation and replacing it with a series of negotiated agreements . |
| 19 | In the UK , the service sector has grown tremendously over the past decade or so , largely because manufacturers have attempted to reduce labour intensive tasks . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Citizenship has increasingly attracted the attention of politicians , public figures , political scientists and academic lawyers in the last decade or so . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Unfortunately most of what we know about Coleman is related to the last decade or so of his life . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Over the last decade or so , new types of financial instrument have been developed to help businesses manage the risks from fluctuations in interest and exchange rates . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Over the last decade or so , feminists have moved progressively from attempts at nonsexist dictionary-making to attempts at feminist lexicography which radically question the nature of the whole enterprise . |
| 30 | Women 's history has yet to take root within our universities and so must wait even longer before it makes an impact in the classroom despite the availability of many histories of women produced in the last decade or so , which could provide starting points for a better balanced approach to history . |