Example sentences of "in recent years [pers pn] 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 . ’
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