Example sentences of "many of [art] former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the local council has had some success in attracting new industries to the urban areas of Peterlee and Seaham , many of the former mining villages have failed to cope with the loss of their pits . |
| 2 | But now modern information technology is making many of the former tasks of middle managers redundant . |
| 3 | They based their case on grounds of both efficiency and democracy. : These advantages were obtained by many of the former county boroughs which Redcliffe-Maud considered to have ‘ been the most effective local government unit we have known ’ ( Redcliffe-Maud 1969:Vol 1 68 ) . |
| 4 | Many of the former employees of Laidlaw & Fairgrieve 's Tweedvale spinning mill at Walkerburn had not bothered to claim unemployment benefit when the company closed the factory without warning in August 1988 . |
| 5 | Since the great period of railway closures of the 1950s and '60s it is , of course , now possible to walk along many of the former track beds and appreciate their impact on the landscape . |