Example sentences of "of [art] few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | That makes it dramatically far less effective than on some previous recordings , but the central anthem is beautifully done , and it is good too to have the three superb Funeral Sentence anthems of a few years earlier . |
| 2 | Most remind me of the Sinclair Spectrum games of a few years ago , but that last one is a typical Japanese ‘ happy jumpy scrolly ’ game — weird , but compulsive . |
| 3 | In the course of a few years Hider had managed to undo a thousand-year-long German expansion eastwards . |
| 4 | Therefore , because it is unlikely that there will ever be revised editions , and because I should just hate to see my name on anything that could not be relied on , the probability is that the books will progressively be withdrawn from publication after a currency of a few years . ’ |
| 5 | It was the Deutsche Bank which bought the great and corrupt Flick empire from the family owners before they could restructure it and sell it off in sections : it was Deutsche as well which , within the space of a few years , succeeded in transforming Daimler-Benz into a huge diversified Konzerne , making it the largest in the country , by successively buying the motor company MTU , the aeronautics firm Dornier , the electronics firm AEG and merging them with Messerschmitt Blohm to give birth to an industrial empire of 400,000 employees and £27 billion turnover . |
| 6 | He had gone there expecting ‘ to suffer the tedium of a few years living in the backveld , in order to make some very necessary repairs to the fortunes of myself and my small family ’ but found that ‘ against all expectations I had wandered into a bewilderingly interesting , exciting and varied World ’ . |
| 7 | Describes the great changes that have come over this locality in the course of a few years . |
| 8 | Initially , the newly nationalized school system expanded very rapidly , with enrolments doubling in the course of a few years . |
| 9 | In a complex web of mystifying deals , Hibs were held together by a financial structure which in the space of a few years involved a local bookmaker , an English based company with extensive leisure interests in the west country and a company registered in Panama called Charcoal Holdings . |
| 10 | As one of the first members recalled , ‘ When we reached thirteen most of us felt we were too big for the Sunday School , and there was a gap of a few years until we were able to join the YMCA at seventeen … |
| 11 | The only way to test these predictions in the space of a few years is to observe a sufficient number of protons and see if a few decay . |
| 12 | ‘ Within the space of a few years THE PENGUIN GUIDE has become something of an institution , its status earned largely through a cheerful , informative ‘ plain speaking ’ style , copious entries , and attractive reader-friendly presentation ’ — Classic CD |
| 13 | Looking back at the stormy relationship of a few years ago , he realised how much she had mellowed . |
| 14 | If your memories are stirring uneasily around thoughts of the odious and contemptible graverobbing expedition of a few years back to try and recover Mallory and Irvine 's ‘ camera and other remains ’ , forget it . |
| 15 | There is a comprehensive list and description of available tests in the ‘ Mental Measurement Yearbook ’ which is updated at intervals of a few years . |
| 16 | In the space of a few years , Zurich plans to complete its switch from selling standard products ( such as property , motor and accident insurance ) to anyone who will buy them to fashioning customised insurance packages for specific groups . |
| 17 | It is a matter of a few years . |
| 18 | Newcomers this year include Galerie Bruno Meissner from Zurich , while Spink from London will be returning after an absence of a few years . |
| 19 | Other changes in structure developed more slowly , but although the pattern looked different over a period of a few years , analogues of the basic groups seem to have been present ever since the phenomenon of the contemporary football fan arose in the middle to late 1960s . |
| 20 | In the space of a few years the word ‘ hooligan ’ had outstripped its humble local origins and its specific reference to London gang life ( it had also begun to lose its capital ‘ H ’ ) and had come to be understood and feared as a much more general affliction among the nation 's youth . |
| 21 | But not many people this century , even during the boom of a few years ago ( when Tory ministers still bragged about the ‘ sea change ’ that had supposedly taken place in the British economy ) , have ever seriously thought of the UK as a ‘ land of opportunity ’ . |
| 22 | As it happens , there is a substantial engine refurbishment contract in the offing which ( although tenders have not yet been invited ) promises to bring someone several tens of millions of pounds in revenue over a period of a few years . |
| 23 | In effect a total institutional restructuring of Japanese society , economy and politics was imposed within the space of a few years . |
| 24 | A significant proportion of what you are studying today will be out of date in the space of a few years . |
| 25 | At intervals of a few years recruiting officers were sent out with powers to conscript young Christian boys between the ages of eight and twenty . |
| 26 | An early hostility to capitalist oppression and a refusal to contemplate co-operation with social democratic reformers was transformed in the space of a few years into a wide-ranging crusade against fascism in which geniune sympathisers of whatever creed were welcome participants . |
| 27 | " Social types rise up and die within the space of a few years , or a few months " , declared Nizan . |
| 28 | Many young people are attracted by the idea of a few years teaching EFL overseas on the basis of a minimal qualification , and the employment situation is therefore an essentially transient one . |
| 29 | Scientific studies carried out a few years ago revealed that regular sunbed users ( those using a bed more than once a week over a period of a few years ) now have a condition called skin fragility syndrome . |
| 30 | A quantity of dance-music for it is preserved , imperfectly , in the so-called ‘ Walsingham Consort Books ’ of approximately the same date , and the combination is depicted accompanying the wedding masque in the Henry Unton memorial painting of a few years later . |