Example sentences of "in recent years [pron] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additives : In recent years we have been made more aware of the danger of excessive artificial additives in our food and drink . |
| 2 | In recent years we have been witnessing an attempt to place more emphasis on the first two purposes of education to redress what is considered an imbalance in favour of the third in the three decades following the 1944 Education Act . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , in recent years we have been moving , albeit slowly and hesitantly , towards the view that the primary school should regard itself as one element in a united national service to children . |
| 4 | He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain . |
| 5 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 6 | In recent years they have been streamlined to the point where they are totally identical , except for the name and the cover . |
| 7 | ‘ In recent years I have been impressed by the standard of speech training in various parts of the province and it was the same again in Ballyclare where a number of talented young people were on stage . ’ |
| 8 | MI6 remains to this day a secret organisation that does not officially exist despite the fact that in recent years there have been numerous books written about its activities . |
| 9 | In recent years there have been very large increases in the number of new publications appearing on the market . |
| 10 | In recent years there have been records for every month as single birds have summered five or six times . |
| 11 | In recent years there have been increasing numbers of visitors who enjoy the facilities which have been developed for windsurfing , scuba diving and game fishing ( tunny , marlin , barracuda etc ) . |
| 12 | In recent years there have been some significant advances in studying the auditory system , especially in the analysis of computational maps that recode intensity and phase differences in the two ears into the representation of auditory space ( Knudsen , DuLac , and Esterly 1987 ) , but this work has focused on subcortical mechanisms . |
| 13 | In recent years there have been , regrettably , a number of major accidents involving large passenger transport aircraft which have attracted much public attention . |
| 14 | Yet research into contemporary demography and statistics soon demonstrates that in recent years there have been dramatic changes in trends and patterns of marriage , divorce and cohabitation . |
| 15 | In recent years there have been feminist theologians who , far from believing there to be a gap to be bridged between past and present , have emphasized rather the continuity to be found in the situation of women . |
| 16 | although in recent years there have been significant improvements in the provision of research and library facilities for M.P.s these still lag fir behind those available to their counterparts abroad . |
| 17 | In recent years there have been many attacks on what is sometimes called the classic realist novel on similar grounds : that far from being a means of communication it is a means of ideological domination and repression , reproducing on the cultural level the processes of industrial capitalism , making its audience passive consumers , reconciling them to their alienated state instead of liberating them from it , by making it appear normal or natural . |
| 18 | Our knowledge of life histories of most deep-sea ophiuroids is poor ( see Tyler , 1980 for a review ) although in recent years there have been several accounts of the reproductive biology of the more common species ( Schoener 1968 , 1972 : Tyler & Gage 1979 , 1980 , 1982 ; Gage & Tyler , 1981 , 1982 ) together with some work on the post-larval stages ( Schoener 1967 , 1969 ; Gage & Tyler 1981 ) . |
| 19 | In recent years there have been language conflicts in Spain , Wales , India and South Africa and more recently in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia — as different ethnic groups have chosen the language they love as a rallying point . |
| 20 | In recent years there have been a number of studies reporting the isolation of mycobacteria from patients with Crohn 's disease , but it has been reports of the isolation of M paratuberculosis , which have generated the greatest interest . |
| 21 | In recent years there have been a number of wide ranging official reviews of most aspects of UK competition policy , which have involved widespread consultations with academia , business and other interested parties . |
| 22 | In recent years there have been three important historical studies of information in business and large-scale organisations . |
| 23 | In recent years there have been several judicial attempts to define the scope of the doctrine . |
| 24 | In recent years there have been significant statutory interventions protecting the consumer . |
| 25 | In recent years there have been changes in educational emphasis in schools . |