Example sentences of "[prep] recent years [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accommodation and compromise have not characterized the attitudes and actions of the young university-educated activists of the DUP of recent years because they grew up in the zero-sum game , and even if they forgot its rules long enough to consider shifting the DUP 's aims , there is no reason to suppose that the voters would support them in their deviation . |
| 2 | The Detectives , which pulled in bumper viewing figures when it was shown on BBC earlier this year , was a revelation for Jasper whose stand-up routines of recent years if I can be frank were dire . |
| 3 | I draw his attention to the fact that we are now net exporters of televisions whereas we were net importers under the Labour party and to the fact that motor output has been expanding in recent years whereas it was declining under Labour . |
| 4 | Distribution problems have probably caused more deaths from starvation in recent years than an actual shortage of food . |
| 5 | The severity of this rule has been the more acutely felt because the existence of a partnership , which needs no special form for its creation , has often been inferred — less often , it is true , in recent years than formerly — from the fact of the receipt by a person of a share of the profits of a business . |
| 6 | Statistics collected by the Advertising Association show that the cost of TV production has risen even faster in recent years than that of TV airtime . |
| 7 | In general , however , the concept of an academic curriculum has been less well explored in recent years than that of a professional curriculum , and what follows here will reflect that fact . |
| 8 | Not only has the British government and its agencies borrowed less in recent years than other European governments , it is also the case that , until recently , the private bond market was narrow . |
| 9 | Opponents alleged that police powers had dangerously expanded in recent years while police accountability had diminished . |
| 10 | Lochranza has been ignored in recent years since the only crossing to Arran is now at Brodick . |
| 11 | Here the NHS has made considerable progress in recent years since the introduction of the Appraisal of Options Procedure . |
| 12 | In large scale industry ( such as the Automotive Industry ) the use of cordless tools has been steadily increasing in recent years so it is by no means novel technology . |
| 13 | A spokeswoman for Mersey Docks and Harbour Company said : ’ They are now quite old and have not been in regular use in recent years so it was decided to dismantle them to improve the appearance of the area . |
| 14 | HOME ownership increased by a fifth and average prices trebled between 1979 and now but the story has turned sour for many homebuyers in recent years as mortgage arrears and repossessions soared . |
| 15 | They have become commoner in recent years as business executives and their employers have sought a means of solving disputes without recourse to courts of law . |
| 16 | We noted the omission of any mention of meat and asked her particularly about this , as there have been so many debates among anthropologists in recent years as to the origins of hunting and meat-eating . |
| 17 | These have grown in number very rapidly in recent years as renewing the attractiveness of the centre through environmental improvement , including pedestrianisation , has been adopted as a competitive response to the growth of out-of-town shopping . |
| 18 | This is an area that has come to prominence in recent years as new kinds of instruments such as auction market preferred shares ( AMPS ) , convertible debt with premium put options and convertible capital bonds have appeared . |
| 19 | In recent years as Japanese competition penetrates ever deeper , Western media coverage of Japan has been much more concerned with economics and trade than with conflict inside Japan . |
| 20 | Community psychiatric nurses help many patients return home and cope without the need for hospitalization , and their role has developed markedly in recent years as the emphasis has shifted towards the community . |
| 21 | This issue has become particularly important in recent years as the volume of Third World debt has grown to unmanageable proportions ( see Ch. 29 ) . |
| 22 | Boar has come into fashion in recent years as farmers diversify to beat the recession . |
| 23 | There has been scant evidence of our garden friendly pollinator in recent years as their constitutions can not withstand the chemicals abounding in pesticides . |
| 24 | The system has been born out of rapid expansion in recent years as the business has opened new centres and employed more people . |
| 25 | But it has kept its head down in recent years because of a huge $4 billion corporate debt and a slide in sales . |
| 26 | This poverty has become much more visible in recent years because the number of lone-parent families has increased so dramatically . |
| 27 | Relations between the two neighbouring states had been tense in recent years because of the Bougainville conflict . |
| 28 | Porta caval shunt operations have not found favour in recent years because of the increased incidence of postoperative hepatic encephalopathy . |
| 29 | I mean , ranking of the countries descending as business in the way it changes , and Japan comes first , Germany 's gone down in recent years because of that trouble , but America has consistently been the major investor in this country . |
| 30 | The Bank of England has lost some independence in recent years because of the formalisation of what were previously informal supervisory activities . |