Example sentences of "[art] [adj] time since " in BNC.

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1 The median duration of disease ( as defined by duration of symptoms ) was 8 years ( range 0.2–36 years ) and the median time since diagnosis was 4.5 years ( range 0–15 years ) .
2 The eternal flame went out yesterday for the second time since it was lit on July 26 last year .
3 For perhaps only the second time since the Turner Prize was inaugurated in 1984 , the jury , comprising Nicholas Serota , Director of the Tate Gallery , Marie-Claude Beaud , Director of the Cartier Foundation , Robert Hopper , Director of the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust , Time Out 's art critic , Sarah Kent , and collector and director of CNN 's European operations , Howard Karshan , has compiled a genuinely balanced short-list of artists whose work will be shown in an exhibition opening at the Tate Gallery at the beginning of this month ( 4–29 November ) and from whom a winner will be announced at a formal dinner taking place at the museum on 24 November .
4 It was only the second time since they had been married that she had rebuffed him .
5 And for the second time since she 'd first met him , he turned on his heel and left her , his blistering words still seeming to echo in the very air around her .
6 the elapsed time since the prior event .
7 On Nov. 5 the cordoba was devalued for the 43rd time since Chamorro took office in April , the rate moving from US$1.00=1,540,000 cordobas to $1.00=1,610,000 cordobas .
8 As finance director David Nash stated : ‘ In view of the short time since the standard was issued , and the fact that most forecasts have been prepared on the existing basis , we were concerned that it might be confusing if this presentation was based on the new format .
9 Even in the short time since he 'd chased the car along the street , she could see that he 'd gone further downhill .
10 In the short time since it was launched , in late 1991 , Marquis has achieved acclaim from both retailers and consumers ; it has already , we believe , reached the position of sixth best selling brand in the United States premium crystal market .
11 But because of the short time since the Edinburgh summit , few of the projects to be offered money are new .
12 It is the fourth time since Mr Chirac 's humiliating defeat in the presidential election three years ago that the discredited yet seemingly immovable leadership of the right has been challenged .
13 For the first time since he became leader , he is in the position to set the political agenda .
14 As well as campaigning against embryo research , it plans to introduce an abortion amendment to the Bill , thereby forcing a free vote for the first time since abortion was legalised in 1967 .
15 MOTHERWELL climbed to the top of the Scottish Premier Division for the first time since League reconstruction 14 years ago with a 1-0 win over Rangers at Fir Park last night .
16 The new policy will drop , for the first time since its introduction in the early Eighties , a presumption in favour of house-building at the expense of other conservation considerations .
17 Now , for the first time since the early Seventies the left has no power to tether the leadership on anything significant .
18 It is certainly the first time since Mrs Thatcher was elected in 1979 that Labour has ended its conference with the Conservatives on the defensive .
19 For the first time since they began the surveys , Dun and Bradstreet report a negative outlook for the profits of retailers , which indicates a gloomy outlook for consumer spending in the run-up to Christmas .
20 3 STEVE BULL scored twice as England finished their European Championship Under-21 qualifying campaign with a flourish in Jastrzebie Zdruj , but they are still likely to miss out on a quarter-final place for the first time since the competition began 13 years ago .
21 More immediately delightful , she saw Nelson Mandela , an intimate friend of her youth , for the first time since he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 .
22 For the first time since he was a professor at Cambridge , he began to hope , though with modesty , that he might be chosen for the work .
23 Bernie was speechless , for the first time since I 'd known him .
24 When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met .
25 In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London .
26 I do not know if it was the first time since his appointment as executive chef at the Carlton Tower in 1968 , but I do know it was a rare occurrence to see him even emerge from his kitchen , let alone dine .
27 It was the first time since her death that he had been able to think of it with anything like acceptance .
28 Returning to Moscow at the age of 52 , for the first time since he left to live in London 26 years ago , Ashkenazy said : ‘ In my modest way , I thought I could endorse what 's happening in my country . ’
29 Tens of thousands of East Berliners streamed to the West , unhindered for the first time since the Wall was put up 28 years ago .
30 For the first time since the survey was started six years ago , retailers , wholesalers and companies in the motor trade expect to cut investment in the coming year .
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