Example sentences of "[art] few decades " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of Taskopruzade 's work is concerned with scholars of the period before there was what might properly be called a learned hierarchy ; and though in his own lifetime a hierarchy of learned offices existed and certainly the basic principles of the hierarchy had been formulated it was by no means as thoroughly elaborated or rigid as it was to become even in the few decades after his death . |
| 2 | One of man 's great intellectual adventures — the exploration and understanding of his own nervous system — is progressing at a rate undreamed of only a few decades ago . |
| 3 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |
| 4 | These are superimposed on the main curve , and only last a few decades , but can have deviations on the radiocarbon axis of a century or so ( fig. 7.5 ) . |
| 5 | Between them , they have solved the problem of finding a role for an institution which a few decades ago looked to be under siege . |
| 6 | Once Queen Victoria had been established on the throne for a few decades , she acquired a natural authority when dealing with her prime ministers . |
| 7 | On the other hand , in many other spheres , the most amazing developments that have taken place in just a few decades are taken completely for granted and even more is expected . |
| 8 | John Mather , chief geochemist at the British Geological Survey , warns that a third of our tapwater could exceed nitrate levels within a few decades . |
| 9 | As at other sites , the trace metal contamination — first lead , then zinc — predated the onset of acidification by a few decades . |
| 10 | Certainly it was once hoped , particularly after the devastation of the last war , that modern architecture might with the aid of science and technology provide mankind with a wholly satisfying new environment — and do so in a matter of a few decades . |
| 11 | How our lives have changed in the course of just a few decades . |
| 12 | A few decades ago at the US Department of Agriculture Experimental Station in Beltsville , Maryland , only female clucks were hatched from synthetically fertilised turkey eggs . |
| 13 | In a very short space of time — just a few decades — the industrial moths had gone through a small but distinct evolutionary step . |
| 14 | He had acted in accordance with the Punjab creed , but with too much enthusiasm and a few decades too late . |
| 15 | Electronic data interchange , or EDI , is another of those information technology concepts that , after politely lurking in the background for a few decades , is suddenly forcing itself on our attention with unmannerly persistence . |
| 16 | In a perverse way , the new utopia dredged up ancient ways of doing things which capitalism a few decades earlier had threatened to abolish . |
| 17 | A few decades ago this would have been a much more controversial question than it is today , because one possible answer would have been that the Universe had always existed , and always would . |
| 18 | A few decades of road improvements have encouraged motorists to visit beauty spots formerly difficult of access . |
| 19 | A vast factory for paper-making was built nearby a few decades ago , becoming the town 's main employer , but its future appears to be under threat . |
| 20 | A history teacher is content to cover the history of one country or continent over a few decades . |
| 21 | Only one fertile Genestealer needed to remain alive in hiding to undo all the good work within a few decades . |
| 22 | Otherwise , within a few decades Genestealers would have begun to infiltrate your own family , polluting and hypnotizing . ’ |
| 23 | As for the mild , ramshackle Austro-Hungarian empire , it gave Bosnia peace and reasonably humane government for a few decades , until Austria-Hungary itself was broken up in 1918 — to the regret , quite soon , of many of its erstwhile subjects . |
| 24 | He is also afraid that the paint may have a tendency to absorb oxygen which means that it will eventually become brittle : ‘ I suspect that the paint will start showing cracks within a few decades ’ . |
| 25 | For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance . |
| 26 | There is yet no general explanation for the fertility decline ( Cleland and Wilson 1987 ) ; it is now clear that the transition began within the space of a few decades throughout Western Europe , from Trieste to Tromso , in a wide variety of countries ( Coale and Watkins 1986 ) . |
| 27 | Almost all the countries of Europe except Spain and Ireland started their fertility decline just a few decades after Britain , before the First World War ( Coale and Watkins 1986 ) , even though some ( e.g. Scandinavia ) remained dependent on agriculture , fishing , forestry , and other primary production . |
| 28 | To this extent , we may consider society today to be healthier than it was a few decades ago . |
| 29 | Evidence of this can be seen in the surprising number of items surviving from the late 19th and early 20th centuries , which one could be forgiven for thinking were only a few decades old . |
| 30 | Again , while the emphasis in television has changed slightly from a few decades ago , for instance in the acceptance that women can be sufficiently authoritative to read news broadcasts , nevertheless we still have Westerns full of macho cowboys and soap operas with glamorous full-time housewives . |