Example sentences of "in [art] past few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is to be regretted that many of the Government 's measures relating to its asylum policy introduced in the past few years , have been to discourage new arrivals . |
| 2 | This , however , could soon be put right as investors begin to focus on changes which have taken place in the past few years . |
| 3 | But the haemorrhage of people since travel was eased in the past few years , and the mass exodus of the past weeks suggest they are in a minority . |
| 4 | Many people have made substantial personal fortunes in the past few years , Mr Palumbo writes in the council 's annual report , and having inherited the mantle of the great patrons of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , they should acknowledge their responsibilities by returning a portion of their good fortune to the community . |
| 5 | It is to be hoped that her business is now sufficiently stable to realise the opportunity , for she has clocked up three managing directors in the past few years . |
| 6 | However , the attention lavished on the Conservative party , and especially on the Conservative Party 's ideas , in the past few years has only served to emphasize the relative neglect of Conservative history and Conservative thought before Mrs Thatcher . |
| 7 | ‘ Having been so close to winning the title in the past few years I thought this was going to be my chance but the draws have just dried up and I ca n't seem to get near fish , ’ said Dave from Hednesford , Staffordshire . |
| 8 | So in the past few years since Big Bang we have seen dealers chasing every hare , especially since dealing volumes declined and firms have been more desperate to do business . |
| 9 | ‘ The truth , about which we spoke so often in the past few years , has been reaffirmed once again — where there is a delay in dealing with overripe problems , excesses are inevitable , ’ Gorbachev said in the Tass transcript of his speech . |
| 10 | The Mothers ' Front is demanding information about more than 40,000 people it says have disappeared in the past few years . |
| 11 | The island 's isolation and woodsy beauty have made it wildly popular in the past few years ; prices for many single homes have jumped above $300,000 . |
| 12 | Membership of the European Community since 1973 has helped attract foreign companies in droves , while better management of a virtually strike-free economy has transformed its performance in the past few years . |
| 13 | In the past few years Broderick has been faced with a similar , if less epic problem : simply how to grow up on screen , how to graduate from the early ‘ smart kid ’ roles in War Games and Ferris Bueller 's Day Off which have so far intended to resort to a tour of duty in a Vietnam movie or wearing a false moustache in a cop drama to prove their ‘ maturity ’ as actors . |
| 14 | Anyway , everyone knows that training shoes have gone a bit crazy in the past few years . |
| 15 | The Colonel always sought her out on the Thursday of her visit , and in the past few years he had , in the most circumspect manner , pressed his suit . |
| 16 | We 're particularly aggrieved because we suffered very badly from the storm in 1987 and we 've been struggling in the past few years of drought to replant , ’ said Mr Myers . |
| 17 | SUPPOSE you have a print by Picasso , Dali , Miro or Chagall , or sold one in the past few years : you have a special interest in a Brooklyn courtroom this week . |
| 18 | In addition , he pointed out that the price/performance ratio has changed by a factor of 6,000 in the past few years : ‘ If the car industry had had the same change that the computer industry has experienced since 1960 , a car that cost $10,000 in 1960 would now be sold for $1 , ’ he said . |
| 19 | IN THE past few years the laws forbidding the sale of alcohol to teenagers have been weakened , in the sense that they are neither as just nor as realistic as they were . |
| 20 | Such obscurantism has badly damaged the NUT , which has seen its membership fall steadily in the past few years , while the more moderate AMMA 's has gone up . |
| 21 | In the past few years I have been involved in a Seminar for senior administrators from the Third World studying at British Universities A group of 25 or 30 is gathered each year at Plockton in Wester Ross by the British Council , the ODA and the Highland Board . |
| 22 | Our understanding of the natural occurrence of Bt has been revised dramatically in the past few years . |
| 23 | The evidence that such a reaction does actually occur in humans , most markedly in individuals with low stomach acidity , has strengthened in the past few years . |
| 24 | In the past few years we have seen conservatories grow in popularity . |
| 25 | They look around this area , they see the factories that have closed in the past few years , they know how many people are out of work . ’ |
| 26 | In the past few years , a number of former hospitals that were doomed to demolition have been successfully converted . |
| 27 | But in the past few years the trend has been in the opposite direction . |
| 28 | As a result of these various pressures there has been a proliferation of community care schemes in the past few years ; schemes to improve on the services already available , to fill gaps , and to provide a less fragmented service to the elderly mentally frail . |
| 29 | In the past few years the appeal system has been successfully used to overcome the resistance of reluctant local authorities , and development has tended to proceed on an ad hoc basis with new centres sited where developers can acquire land easily rather than on the basis of any strategic plan . |
| 30 | Certain areas , notably Oxford and Cambridge and the so-called Golden Triangle , have experienced major high-tech-based growth in the past few years and the government is keen to encourage this type of development as reflected in Department of the Environment Circular 16/84 , changes to the Use Classes Order and measures to liberalise planning controls over business in general . |