Example sentences of "in [art] past [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is reassuring to note that the burden which such women carry has been more widely recognised and discussed in the past 10–15 years . |
| 2 | In the UK there is no equivalent , though the spate of disasters in the past 4 years ( involving over 1000 lives lost ) has led to several calls for such a national body to be established . |
| 3 | In the past thirty years , astrophysicists have discovered dust clouds , radio signals , X-rays , electric and magnetic fields in supposedly empty space , and it is now realised that there is as much energy/matter between the stars as there is contained in them and in all the planets as well . |
| 4 | For example , the attempt in the past thirty years to incorporate more divergent factors changes the emphasis towards inductive and creative abilities . |
| 5 | History of this sort , which offers to explain the relations between properties of societies , has been enormously successful in the past thirty years or so and provides a clear conception of how the underlying interest of holism can guide social enquiry . |
| 6 | The actual differences between the highest paid and the lowest paid have in fact changed only marginally in the past thirty years , and it is still broadly true that the richest 1 per cent of income earners enjoy a gross pay which is about four times greater than they would receive if income were to be equally distributed among the total working population . |
| 7 | In the past 11 years , the publicity budget for the Department of Education and Science has gone up 28 times . |
| 8 | In the past 11 years , some of us have done precisely that , justifiably sending endless letters to the Department of the Environment . |
| 9 | In the past fifteen years , the French inflation rate has been brought into line with Germany 's , a trade imbalance has been reduced , and successive devaluations of the franc , that stressed German supremacy , have been halted . |
| 10 | The ownership and use of cars in the Netherlands has doubled in the past fifteen years . |
| 11 | The quality of state police forces varies widely and , although attempts have been made to nationalize standards and training in the past fifteen years or so , the differences may still be considerable . |
| 12 | And that includes the major issues of change and development within the labour movement itself ; the most serious indictment of all involved in trade union education in the past fifteen years is their failure to inspire a regeneration of the ideology of labour as a collective movement for democratic advance combined with the widespread dissemination of a modern organisational competence . |
| 13 | Complaints about noise have increased tenfold in the past fifteen years , and all the signs are that the problem is still getting worse . |
| 14 | Among our recent former pupils are the best Scottish Geography Graduate in the past fifteen years and a young geologist who is now a millionaire with his own oil company in Canada . |
| 15 | IN THE past 70 years or so , according to my far from faultless memory , there has been a reversal of the cowboys and Indians convention . |
| 16 | He has not grasped that world experience in the past 70 years has empirically proved that ‘ models ’ of the kind whose absence he notes — generalised socialist visions — are so many mirages . |
| 17 | The disquieting feature of the pronouncements of the House of Lords is that by flatly insisting upon the literal rule without expressing any qualifications , they tend to repress the use of the traditional tools by which the judges have in the past introduced rationality into the statute law . |
| 18 | In the past two chapters , I have been discussing the mechanisms of evolution , but have said little about the outcome of the process . |
| 19 | In the past two articles we 've seen how double stops can be derived from chords , and also some different approaches for incorporating double stops into your playing . |
| 20 | This is another attempt to waste parliamentary time — already 280 hours has been wasted in this way in the past two decades . ’ |
| 21 | According to Mr Dieter Brauninger , an economist at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt , the newcomers could not have arrived at a better time : a period of dynamic growth , when gaps created by the fall in the birth rate in the past two decades need to be filled . |
| 22 | The number of one-parent families has grown in the past two decades increasing by almost 80 per cent between 1971 — when there were just over half a million one parent families — and 1986 when there were just over a million . |
| 23 | ( J Millar , 1989 ) Moreover , the growth in the numbers of one-parent families in the past two decades has occurred in most industrialised countries . |
| 24 | The miners ' strike which lasted from March 1984 to March 1985 was not the only example of industrial conflict in Britain in the past two decades , but it was easily the longest and the most violent . |
| 25 | In the past two decades , work on theoretical and practical aspects of artificial intelligence has stimulated our concepts of mind . |
| 26 | This is news to me ; the widespread cattle mutilations across the American midwest in the past two decades are variously blamed on cultists , aliens or government experimentation , but , as far as I am aware , no actual proof has ever been found to back up any one of these hypotheses . |
| 27 | Although going back well into the nineteenth century , in the past two decades this idea has generated a vast amount of research by psychologists , physiologists , neuroanatomists and other scientists . |
| 28 | As an artist Robin Winters has left a riotous trail across America and Europe in the past two decades , a path strewn with paintings , sculptures , drawings in all media , writing , installations , performances and events which appear to have combined all of the above . |
| 29 | Undoubtedly the existence of three parallel visual channels running from the retina to the visual cortex is one of the most important findings in visual physiology in the past two decades . |
| 30 | Britain has seen three house-price booms in the past two decades . |