Example sentences of "years [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years the forests on the other side of the river from the Gunung Leuser reserve have been clear-felled . |
| 2 | Over the past four years the companies with the highest annual average growth in pre-tax profits per share ( excluding property and other capital items ) are Joseph Holt 17% , Morland 16% , Mansfield 16% , Adnams 14% , Hardys & Hansons 14% , Wolverhampton & Dudley 12% and Greenalls 11% . |
| 3 | In those early years the horrors of travel merely reminded him what a long , long way Anna was from her own country , and he used to say that they owed it to her to make up for it . |
| 4 | The long-standing resistance to urban and industrial encroachment continues , but increasingly in recent years the defenders of the rural environment have found themselves fighting on two fronts . |
| 5 | In recent years the concepts of natural justice and judicial review have been extended beyond the purely statutory sphere . |
| 6 | Later , in the autumn of 1912 , Picasso moved to Montparnasse , and during the following years the differences in their work began to become apparent , but the same friendly relations were maintained . |
| 7 | For 13 years the forces of Hooraydom have stalked the land , set free by a government that slashed their taxes and showered them with Bollinger , BMWs and bijou terraced houses in the smarter parts of South London . |
| 8 | Thanks to her political views , the Communist Daily Worker enjoyed for several years the services of a perceptive ballet critic . |
| 9 | It seems certain that over the next few years the returns for all the work done did not satisfy Taylor , who wrote again in 1840 to the acting agent Moser , asking for a reduction of the Royalties to one-fifteenth . |
| 10 | A new link building , already in use , relieves for the first time in years the problems of the Printed Books Department . |
| 11 | I think if you go back a hundred years the problems in British culture were much worse , but nonetheless I do think there 's a tremendous arrogance around in modern so-called civilized Britain , and particularly when they talk about the ancient civilization of Israel , I just think that they were a far more humane nation than we are . |
| 12 | For a number of years the efforts of those who were proponents of this vision were either contained or circumvented by the majority , who resisted such a massive change . |
| 13 | Over the next two years the powers of the papacy were gradually whittled away by successive parliamentary statutes ; all papal financial exactions were withheld ; papal dispensations were invalidated ; and papal consecration of bishops and the right of appeal to Rome were both declared unnecessary . |
| 14 | Throughout these years the powers of monarchy were in effect exercised for the advantage of ascendant magnate factions who enjoyed supremacy at court and aroused widespread hostility in the country . |
| 15 | In recent years the advantages of the old Dominion connection in the ABCA grouping have tended to fade as Canadian , Australian and New Zealand attitudes to Defence , their relations with the US , and their view of Britain have changed with their own growing maturity . |
| 16 | There is reason to hope that in coming years the fields of pronunciation teaching and of experimental phonetics will become much more closely linked . |
| 17 | For some years the recordings of well-known choirs , such as King 's College , Cambridge , have had a steady and growing market . |
| 18 | Further , during these years the possibilities of the wireless as a teaching medium was being explored through the BBC 's ‘ Listening-in ’ groups . |
| 19 | After some years the designs from the Empire influenced fashionable people in their taste , and Roman style bronze brooches and bangles , some of them made in Britain , were worn by the men and women of prosperous families . |
| 20 | For the past two years the trustees of the Marriott Bequest have funded a scheme aimed at giving young members of the RSC a taste of scientific publishing . |
| 21 | Every three years the villagers of Barwick-in-Elmet lower their maypole on Easter Monday and raise it , newly painted and decorated , at Spring Bank Holiday using traditional methods — that is , ropes , ladders and a lot of manpower . |
| 22 | Also over the years the fortunes of different approaches to fusion have varied . |
| 23 | Shortly after that , Ramsey took over as England 's manager , and for the next 12 years the fortunes of the two men were inextricably intertwined . |
| 24 | For many years the arguments for access to information have emphasised on the one hand the private values of privacy and autonomy and on the other hand the public values of democratic involvement in decision making . |
| 25 | Over the past ten years the excavations at the church have yielded some remarkable discoveries . |
| 26 | In later years the events of 5 October were to be polished into simplified and incompatible propaganda versions ; it has to be stressed that the whole affair was a series of blunders and the violence resulted from a breakdown of control by the leaders of the march and the controllers of the police , and not from any pre-existing plan . |
| 27 | During the quiet years the servants of the Witch King had scoured the world in search of hardy and warlike slaves . |
| 28 | During these years the economies of all four nations evolved in different ways from the comparative chaos of entrepreneurial capitalism to the more advanced stage of organized capitalism . |
| 29 | It is salutary to be reminded that during its early years the processions of the newly created Salvation Army were often the subject of violent attack from other protesters , sometimes hooligan groups , who formed a counter-force called the Skeleton Army . |
| 30 | Gradually , over the next twenty-five years the terms of the Treaty were eroded as the Free State became a Republic in all but name . |