Example sentences of "few year [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tace , describing the orchid in his novel , had also told where it was to be found , and within a few years every tuber and plant of leuchorchis albida had been stripped from the moor . |
| 2 | However , it is that means that over the last few years every time we have actually debated about budget we recognised that the force had unwillingly and against the judgement of the majority of this council , not necessarily er bounded by political affiliation , we have to be getting down further and further towards the completely inaccurate expanded spending assessment that is assessed as necessary for the needs of this city by the department of the environment . |
| 3 | Only a few years a go the coal board was proud of the work of the pit deputy . |
| 4 | Over the last few years a breed of bouncer has evolved , a Rottweiler in a bow-tie , who likes doing serious harm to lippy young men . |
| 5 | Smith himself was for a few years a tutor at Christ Church , but in 1795 he resigned his studentship to become incumbent of Daventry ( a Christ Church living ) , returning to Christ Church as a canon in 1807 . |
| 6 | The first teashop opened in 1894 in Piccadilly , and during the next few years a chain of teashops was opened in London . |
| 7 | After a few years a department may be left with serious gaps in its library and a load of superannuated computing equipment . |
| 8 | However , in the past few years a class of antigens has emerged that does not conform to this conventional pathway of antigen presentation . |
| 9 | But in the past few years a phoenix has risen from the flames of Lakehurst . |
| 10 | During the past few years a number of different models for hospital services for attempted suicide patients have been developed . |
| 11 | In the Past few years a number of small streets have been closed to traffic , and car-parking has been prohibited from the four central reservations in Avenida Arriaga . |
| 12 | Both men are Christians , and in the last few years a number of other Christian writers have followed in their footsteps ( Hunter 1983 ; Guinness 1983 ; Williamson , Parotta et al 1983 ; Kolakowski 1986 ) . |
| 13 | During the last few years the notion of ‘ citizenship ’ has been increasingly and widely discussed amongst different constituencies addressing different aspects of the topic , with somewhat confusing consequences . |
| 14 | The CNAA could not establish boards for every subject component of degrees in education , and in the event for the first few years the Committee for Education , using a range of specialist panels in support , itself carried out the validation work . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After a few years the axiom had taken upon itself the shape of practical reality . |
| 17 | Within a few years the organisation was divided by decision of Annual Conference into seven districts , each covering between two and seven branches and each electing one representative to the Executive , except London , which was given two . |
| 18 | Within a few years the William Tyndale School returned to normal , and it is now a popular and flourishing institution . |
| 19 | For the next few years the horde ravaged at will through the mountains , desecrating shrines , despoiling tombs , and waylaying travellers , but Grom was unable to take any of the Dwarf holds or bring them to battle . |
| 20 | But , as Action on Smoking and Health predicted that within a few years the majority of companies will have smoking policies , Roger Stubbs , deputy managing director of MORI , warned a confrontation is looming between ‘ green consumers ’ and ‘ smoking civil libertarians ’ who insist aggressively on their right to smoke in public places or at work . |
| 21 | During the next few years the plague was always with us . |
| 22 | Within a few years the movies had added a significant number of other social groups to its audience . |
| 23 | Within only a few years the company was exporting its products to central Europe , Russia and the US . |
| 24 | During the last few years the Printing Division has been able to offer photosetting via its P.E . |
| 25 | In the last few years the courts have contrived in effect to extend the substance of a right of occupation to a mistress who has lived on an originally permanent basis with a man , but who has now lost her partner either through death or as a result of some form of desertion . |
| 26 | Over the past few years the pace of his acquisitions would make Rupert Murdoch blush . |
| 27 | For the previous few years the soap factory had been losing business because of imports of synthetic detergents , mainly through Lever Bros , the local branch of Unilever . |
| 28 | Finishing only , and er then after a few years the manufacturing side of the industry adopted the cost of living different from ours but they adopted a cost of living bonus in in a degree rather different from our . |
| 29 | The basis for that is that over the next few years the South Africans will be on an upward learning curve after being without international competition for so long . |
| 30 | Over the past few years the Institute , under statute , has started to regulate its members ' insolvency , financial services and auditing work . |