Example sentences of "[prep] recent years the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , by its campaigns of recent years the BMA has rendered itself virtually impotent in its defence of the profession against those who would shackle it . |
| 2 | In recent years the amateur actor has had more opportunity for classes in theatre work , including voice and movement training as well as performance and directing skills . |
| 3 | In recent years the situation has become confused , because there are now exterior wood stains available , which differ from a true dye or stain , as they leave a coloured film on the surface of the wood and do not require another finish to be applied over them . |
| 4 | In recent years the one English voice that has seemed to reiterate the Eliotic thesis in anything like its entirety has been the voice of C.H. Sisson : |
| 5 | In recent years the British Government has attempted to extradite terrorist suspects from Belgium and The Netherlands after they had been discovered by British intelligence . |
| 6 | No other party of the right operating within a mass electoral system has equalled this achievement , and in recent years the only institution which has matched the Conservatives in terms of the monotonous regularity of their success is Liverpool Football Club . |
| 7 | In recent years the collective aggression displayed by groups of younger fans has caused a kind of ‘ moral panic ’ in the press . |
| 8 | In recent years the defiantly right-on stance of the comedy circuit had been booted out by a brand of no-holds barred humour . |
| 9 | In recent years the FIS has known nothing like it . |
| 10 | In recent years the advantages of the old Dominion connection in the ABCA grouping have tended to fade as Canadian , Australian and New Zealand attitudes to Defence , their relations with the US , and their view of Britain have changed with their own growing maturity . |
| 11 | In recent years the idea of linking pay to performance has caught on , with stock options and with pay linked to measures such as earnings per share or profit margins . |
| 12 | In recent years the courts have frequently granted an injunction to restrain a defendant to a civil action from disposing of any of his assets , or removing them from the jurisdiction of the court . |
| 13 | In recent years the provision of alternatives to residential care , such as independent living under supervision , placement at home and day-care centres , has increased . |
| 14 | In recent years the probation service has devoted increasing resources to supervising the more serious and persistent offenders . |
| 15 | In recent years the currencies which have been participating within the E.R.M. have been remarkably stable within the system and it appears that the E.R.M. members benefited from enhanced policy creditability in the eyes of the foreign exchange markets . |
| 16 | In recent years the two guiding principles of non-discrimination and multilateralism which have lain at the heart of the GATT system have been gradually eroded . |
| 17 | In recent years the lifestyle of the intelligence officer has acquired a glamorous image thanks to the literary world and the screen . |
| 18 | In recent years the entire MI5 registry has been transferred on to a computer at a Ministry of Defence office in Mount Row , Mayfair . |
| 19 | In recent years the DST has had to cope with a conflicting number of loyalties amongst those political refugees France has allowed to enter its country , especially from the Middle East . |
| 20 | In recent years the seedsmen and the chemical companies ( the latter are rapidly taking over the former ) have been producing new varieties of hybrid seeds , fertilizers , herbicides , pesticides , and fungicides , which together have made continuous monocropping feasible . |
| 21 | In recent years the study of megalithic remains such as Stonehenge in terms of hypothetical astronomical alignments has led to various interesting speculations concerning prehistoric man 's knowledge of the calendar . |
| 22 | Surprisingly though , even in what has been in recent years the most buoyant sector of oil product demand — petrol — there is likely to be a gradual lowering of demand despite increased usage of cars . |
| 23 | Yet as Comecon 's major source of hydrocarbons the countries have felt in recent years the strain of cutbacks in Soviet oil exports as well as what they consider to be unfair trading terms caused by rising costs which they lack the economic freedom to renegotiate . |
| 24 | In recent years the increasingly rigid age division of British society has been underpinned by social security , including pensions , policy . |
| 25 | In recent years the breed has been exported to some extent to Jamaica , Uganda , Saudi Arabia and Iran but more widely to Canada , the USA and New Zealand . |
| 26 | The outcome is that in recent years the N.A.C. list has been ignored by serious anglers who are aware of the N.A.S.A . |
| 27 | In recent years the pendulum has swung back . |
| 28 | Local authorities to a very great extent are responsible for the present ‘ grant control ’ which is exercised by Central Government for , whenever in recent years the Central Government have asked them to carry out some new function the local authorities have countered the request by a demand for a Government grant to assist with the new service . |
| 29 | In recent years the importance of the prostaglandin pathway in platelets in relation to platelet aggregation has become apparent and several studies have attempted to assess the activity of this pathway in platelets from diabetic subjects . |
| 30 | In recent years the problem of accidents and accident prevention has come very much to the fore because the huge scale of the problem is now recognised . |