Example sentences of "in [art] last twenty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel relaxed , grateful , and gave her usual careful consideration to the matters before the meeting ; calmly ploughing through the minutiae and bureaucratic red tape of museum management , making the sort of useful contributions that she had made at any such meeting in the last twenty years . |
| 2 | In the last twenty years there have been times when he would have done better to return to investment in land . |
| 3 | He had n't aged much in the last twenty years . |
| 4 | It has been fashionable in the last twenty years to suggest that there was in ancient history a utopian matriarchy . |
| 5 | Clearly in the last twenty years there has been growing controversy about fundamental aspects of policing , unprecedented in this century . |
| 6 | For , not only did the explicit recognition of forward movement in time and the rejection of the idea of endless recurrence originate with Zoroastrianism , but in the last twenty years or so Old Testament scholars have drawn attention to the similarity between some passages in the Old Testament and certain Mesopotamian texts . |
| 7 | Other strategies which recognise the new sense and the new possibilities are the wildlife/domestic stock village systems developing in Central Africa — systems not dissimilar to the self-sufficient , low-input philosophy that Gandhi was promoting before India became a monolithic Civil Service with centralised control which destroyed village integrity : the same problem that has caused thousands of Africans to return to their villages in the last twenty years , giving up their Government jobs for which they were never paid or even got their rations . |
| 8 | Few people can fail to be impressed by the rate of growth of both the animal protection and environmental movements in the last twenty years , or by the extraordinary change in public attitudes with which this growth has been associated . |
| 9 | So , as far as general principles go , I think the issue between animals and the rest of the environment has become much easier in the last twenty years , and thank goodness for that . |
| 10 | New container docks have been added nearer the sea at Seaford and new lifting machinery everywhere has reduced the number of dock workers from 16 000 to 4 000 in the last twenty years . |
| 11 | The increased use of project financing in the last twenty years can be attributed to two factors — increased capital investment needs and economic risks . |
| 12 | I will have more to say about family life in the next chapter , here I note merely that in the last twenty years we have seen the large-scale establishment of the single-parent family , the so-called serial-monogamy syndrome ( divorced people keep getting remarried ) and an endless chain of step-children and step/half brothers and sisters . |
| 13 | Languages and their histories are invaluable resources for feminists analysing the workings of patriarchal societies , and in the last twenty years feminists have drawn our attention to the sexist implications of usage in many languages . |
| 14 | The proportion of jobs with pension schemes has grown in the last twenty years , with the result that the ‘ young ’ elderly have a greater chance of benefiting from them than the older elderly . |
| 15 | Before we come to that ; however , it may give a better picture of the dynamics and movement of theology itself if we approach it more chronologically , and deal in turn with the two main impulses stemming from Germany and Switzerland which largely set the tone in the period from 1920 to 1960 — those associated above all with Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann — with trends outside Germany in that same period , and then with the movements which have received the widest attention in the last twenty years or so . |
| 16 | Moreover , many of the issues have spilled over in a marked renewal of interest in the state in the last twenty years . |
| 17 | Numerous quantitative studies have been done on both birds and mammals in the last twenty years ( reviews in Immelmann , 1972 ; Bateson , 1978a ) and have shown that early experience can have profound and lasting effects on sexual preferences . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , the ugly threat of terrorism and sabotage has become more commonplace in commercial aviation in the last twenty years or so , and sometimes the perpetrators of criminal acts cause their own deaths as well as those of innocent passengers and crew . |
| 19 | Neither Maxwell nor Murdoch , so prominent in the last twenty years of the period , fits the simple pattern of a non-media organization moving in or a media one moving out . |
| 20 | In its first twenty or thirty years of life the new Board was rather more active than the Lords of Trade ; between 1720 and 1760 effective executive power passed to the Secretary of State in charge of relations with France and southern Europe , though the Board still served as the main clearing house for the American pressure groups which could keep up London connections ; in the last twenty years of its life , when Gibbon was a member , it was as complete a sinecure as he could have wished because power had now passed to the holder of a new Secretaryship of State . |
| 21 | Congressional elections have , in the last twenty years , become increasingly personal . |
| 22 | ‘ You only have to look around , ’ he explained , ‘ and see that something has happened in the last twenty years . ’ |
| 23 | In the last twenty years , in new and decisively extended areas of physical reproduction ( notably television and the disc and cassette in popular music ) , this deepseated contradiction has been especially acute . |
| 24 | To summarise this section on education : substantial progress has been made in the last twenty years in relation to the reduction of sex inequalities in education . |
| 25 | There has been much anxiety about the role of local government in the last twenty years . |
| 26 | Politicians of both parties have become increasingly concerned in the last twenty years about the problems of house-buyers , in the face of spiralling land and building costs and high rates of mortgage interest . |
| 27 | In the last twenty years the importance of migration has been reinforced by the decline in rates of natural increase ; now that births and deaths are almost in balance , migration is the crucial determinant of whether population grows or contracts even at the national level . |
| 28 | This is an area which has expanded enormously in the last twenty years , and there are now a large number of independent schools ( of varying degrees of professionalism and quality ) , as well as state sector Colleges of F.E. and H.E . |
| 29 | In the last twenty years , those of us who work in these services have seen revolutionary changes which have been brought about by the use of state-of-the-art scientific technological developments . |
| 30 | In England and Wales the relationship has held throughout the 20th century , and has been particularly strong in the last twenty years … . |