Example sentences of "in [art] last 20 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last 20 years there have been three major price booms — 1972/73 , 1979/80 and the most recent from 1985 to 1988 . |
| 2 | She 's made just a handful of films in the last 20 years , but the actress says she does n't miss the silver screen — she prefers to dedicate herself to children 's charity work instead |
| 3 | Clints have been quarried for rockeries at a markedly increasing rate in the last 20 years , according to a Dales National Park report . |
| 4 | The party has scarcely advanced in the last 20 years , and its brave new policy of ‘ independence in Europe ’ has proved a fine slogan , but not a convincing one . |
| 5 | What was the most memorable moment of Modern architecture in the last 20 years ? |
| 6 | These are the areas in which the remaining forest lands are located ; now only 22 per cent of the country is forested in comparison to nearly 100 per cent in 1900 and 66 per cent in 1945 ( Myers 1988 ) , which in itself constitutes a loss of revenue as timber exports ( a major source of foreign currency ) have declined in the last 20 years . |
| 7 | World Travel Organisation data ( quoted in Pearce 1987 ) reflect a trebling of international tourist arrivals in the last 20 years , reaching 284 million in 1984 as compared with 93 million in 1963 . |
| 8 | The involvement of additives may explain why the incidence of hyperkinetic syndrome seems to have increased dramatically in the last 20 years — a period that has seen the meteoric rise of ‘ junk food ’ , take-aways and instant-everything . |
| 9 | KAILZEE GARDENS , Nr Peebles , Scotland Spring , summer and autumn are well represented in the gardens which have been re-created in the last 20 years . |
| 10 | I hope the majority of regular readers of this column appreciate a broad spectrum of modern , popular music styles ; after last month 's metal mayhem , we now have Martin Rooms of Leicester to thank for requesting an article on the track One Of Us from the album ‘ The Visitors ’ by one of the purest pop acts to emerge in the last 20 years , ABBA . |
| 11 | He added : ‘ The Airbus has been the most successful venture into the civilian aerospace industry in the last 20 years . ’ |
| 12 | He asks you for details of the players in the last 20 years who have won First Division championship medals with two different clubs . |
| 13 | There has been widespread concern in the last 20 years that children from Afro-Caribbean and Asian communities are underachieving in British schools and , therefore , are at a disadvantage in entering further and higher education , acquiring professional and technical qualifications and in finding employment . |
| 14 | Despite the considerable volumes of research conducted in the field of child abuse in the last 20 years , there are still large gaps in our knowledge concerning the phenomenon . |
| 15 | Psychologists in the last 20 years have had to rediscover much of what was already known and practised by the 1860s . |
| 16 | Yorkshire 's winning of the B&H Cup in 1987 was achieved with performances of consistent excellence which represent one of the county 's most vigorous periods in the last 20 years . |
| 17 | Major changes in organizations in the last 20 years have often led to dissonance over expectations . |
| 18 | In the last 20 years , the death rate from chronic bronchitis in the UK seems to have been declining steadily . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , in the last 20 years there has been a sharp increase in the production and sale of smokeless tobacco in some developed countries . |
| 20 | Rug-making declined after the late 18th century , and only in the last 20 years has Egypt begun to re-establish itself as an important force . |
| 21 | All factual evidence indicates , for instance , that in the last 20 years , Americans ' health has improved at unprecedented speed — whether measured by mortality rates for the newborn , survival rates for the very old , the incidence of cancers ( other than lung cancer ) , cancer cure rates , or other factors . |
| 22 | However , a good number of geographers have conducted recreational surveys in the last 20 years and a good deal of experience in the methods and techniques for conducting visitor surveys , in particular , has been obtained , so that it is now generally agreed that the following procedure should be followed : |
| 23 | The scope of this immunity has been changed no less than six times in the last 20 years . |
| 24 | This extra food production is the result of the Green Revolution , which has transformed agriculture in Asia and Latin America in the last 20 years . |
| 25 | That 's one thing , at least , that has n't changed for Guinness in the last 20 years . |
| 26 | Numbers of undergraduates and research students have increased substantially in the last 20 years and have been matched by recent extensive building additions to the School . |
| 27 | Experiments on animals in the last 20 years have revealed that there are several different types of memory ( for example , memory for places , or for events , or for movements ) , that each can be independently disturbed , and that each is primarily controlled by a different part of the brain . |
| 28 | Among the species at risk are swans , kingfishers , mayflies and dragonflies , of which four species have disappeared in the last 20 years . |
| 29 | Thirdly , he was a politician and in the last 20 years of his life , he gave 3 political speeches a week in different parts of the country and wrote a number of books on the train going from one speaking engagement to another to avoid wasting time . |
| 30 | The carnage endured in the last 20 years or so has mainly arisen not from what we from the mainland have done and/or been alleged to do , but from the conflict brought about by ineradicable sectarian fears and ambitions . |