Example sentences of "of [art] past few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | As the Minister who represents the area containing Wandsworth prison , may I suggest to the Minister that if the exchanges of the past few minutes were conveyed to BBC television 's ’ Yes Minister ’ they might indeed help to revive the Government 's fortunes ? |
2 | 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 . |
3 | The most noticeable feature of the past few decades however , has been the increasing instability of economic life . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Tersely , he recalled his experiences of the past few hours . |
7 | Even the stress of the past few hours had not removed the memories of his betrayal . |
8 | Minutes later , feeling suddenly totally exhausted by all the nervous tension of the past few hours , Shiona kissed the already sleeping Kirsty goodnight , then climbed into her own bunk and closed her eyes . |
9 | Maybe it was the hypnotic , rhythmic drone of the aircraft engines , or the sheer emotional exhaustion of the past few hours , but there seemed little she could do to suppress the memories she had so resolutely buried during the last five years . |
10 | Traditional peg tiles have been in great demand since the storms of the past few years , so for Tenterden tile makers Spicer , the clouds had a silver lining . |
11 | Professional management will be needed to keep firms afloat , but it may not be enough to restore the explosive growth of the past few years . |
12 | As one Palestinian remarked : ‘ Many splits of the past few years have already been forgotten . |
13 | While this growth is less spectacular than that of the past few years , the cumulative impact is significant . |
14 | It 's been an ever-present feature in PFK — but has never been as large , colourful , or as popular as at present — number one in almost every reader survey of the past few years . |
15 | FALLING interest rates could signal the end of the great rental boom that flourished in the unstable property market of the past few years . |
16 | In Galway itself , the scenes and actions of the past few years had brought him to early maturity as a willing recruit for the politics of the street fight . |
17 | Some of the fruits of his literary labours are gathered here in an anthology sourced from newspaper writings and his previous books , with scrutinies of most of the top players of the past few years , Test and county . |
18 | This interest has now received a further stimulus from the events of the past few years in Europe . |
19 | The expansion of the past few years has resulted in the majority of subjects now reaching a size at which they are academically viable in terms of staffing and the portfolio of courses they can offer . |
20 | Inevitably with the rapid expansion of the past few years the University is experiencing difficulties in providing sufficient academic as well as residential accommodation . |
21 | It is necessary to cut through the confusion and to attack the mess of local government finance which is the legacy of the past few years of Conservative rule . |
22 | If they can , they are much more cautious as a result of the experience of the past few years than they have ever been . |
23 | Building on the achievements of the past few years , we shall continue to target aid and assistance where it can be most constructive , for the regions and for the nation as a whole . |
24 | I advise him and others to be extremely reticent in proceeding to the supposedly automatic system of introducing guillotine motions , especially after our experience of the past few years under the Government . |
25 | The investments and effort of the past few years have paid dividends for the Belfast Telegraph says managing director Bob Crane — resulting in higher circulation and major newspaper awards . |
26 | He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself . |
27 | Peter continued : ‘ The sales staff continually come up with innovative proposals , and their approach is reflected in our success of the past few years . |
28 | But the game 's top men are hoping they can devise a constructive plan for improvement so that the awfulness of the past few seasons might soon be no more than a bad dream . |
29 | The discreet grooming of the past few seasons has come alive this autumn with a splash of colour . |
30 | After the disasters of the past few months , a result which would previously have been called disappointing will now be hailed as a triumph . |