Example sentences of "[prep] recent years [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the males in Norway , one of the best of recent years that I have particularly liked was Norwegian Ch. |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The issue became a central topic in the court rulings of recent years and the ‘ building tender ’ role was abolished . |
| 5 | Both represent such a considerable departure from previous practice , however , and share so many features in common , that it has taken a while for the dust to settle after the major upheavals of recent years and for the difference between them to emerge . |
| 6 | A fresh look could be taken at some of these , in order to determine their effectiveness in helping parishes both to respond to the liturgical changes of recent years and to explore a wider repertoire of music . |
| 7 | The first details of the fifth five-year development plan ( 1990-95 ) were revealed in a Planning Ministry statement on Dec. 31 , 1989 , in which heavy emphasis continued to be placed on defence spending in spite of the recession of recent years and a chronic deficit which resulted in modest spending increases overall . |
| 8 | But liquidity has increased for a number of the larger issues of recent years and certain gilt-edged market makers are now active dealers in a range of non-gilt securities . |
| 9 | English anglers have dominated the Gland Slam in recent years but the Eastern Europeans are highly regarded with both Poland and Czechoslovakia former winners of the world championship . |
| 10 | The company has made a series of acquisitions in recent years but sold its Skelmersdale Packaging subsidiary , which contributed profits of £1.7m on sales of £12m in 1990 , in a deal worth £11½m in December 1990 . |
| 11 | ‘ We have every sympathy with those who have made substantial underwriting losses in recent years but Lloyd 's owes its first duty to policyholders with valid claims which must be met , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Many fishermen have done well in recent years but they now face great pressure on the fish stocks . |
| 13 | He started in rousing style : ‘ Education in England and Wales has suffered many catastrophes in recent years but none so great as the new GCSE examination . |
| 14 | The sixth company has undertaken systematic formal investigations twice in recent years but does not produce a regular list of key environmental issues . |
| 15 | Various reasons are suggested to explain the resurgence in recent years but the weight of opinion is that it is operational problems that are at fault rather than technical deficiencies — for example , poor application of the insecticide rather than resistance to it and organisational shortcomings rather than aberrant behaviour of vectors . |
| 16 | All have declined dramatically in recent years but corn bunting tops the bill with a massive 60% reduction in their population since 1964 . |
| 17 | It 's a competition Rangers have dominated in recent years but the holders ' last defeat in any domestic cup match was inflicted BY Hibs two years ago , the year they won the cup at Hampden . |
| 18 | in recent years but among the worst must be the reduction by the Home Office of taxable funding |
| 19 | Baseball may have become a parks game in Britian in recent years but now in Gloucestershire there 's a new name to put alongside the Chicago Whitesox and the Los Angeles Dodgers … the name on the shirt is the Gloster Meteors . |
| 20 | They moved to scenic Greencastle on the southern tip of Co Down in recent years but now the ‘ adopted ’ locals are dreading the possibility of the ferry which will operate from Greencastle to Greenore on the other side of Carlingford Lough . |
| 21 | TIMES may have been tough in recent years but matters have come to a fine pass when this distinguished theatre feels obliged to assemble a posse of actresses and two actors to perform what is basically a rather vulgar sketch and present it as a front length drama . |
| 22 | About £1 million has been raised for charity by the display and reproduction of the watercolours which the Prince of Wales has painted in recent years but the exhibition which opens to the public today is his first one-man show in Scotland . |
| 23 | The story enshrined the belief that has developed in recent years that people who place bolts are villains who have no place on British soil . |
| 24 | Geothermal activities have so increased in recent years that these baths are now closed ; they are too hot , too dangerous . |
| 25 | It 's only in recent years that I 've learned to use the weather forecast before contemplating a hill-walk . |
| 26 | He had no answer — save that British scientists had been reorganised so often in recent years that it was time for stability . |
| 27 | Building contractors and employers soon became aware that the contracts into which they had entered no longer made provision for those situations which were beginning to arise : but new standard forms were slow to emerge , and it is only in recent years that these have proliferated . |
| 28 | Although such censorship is not the most common type of censorship in libraries , it is the one in recent years that has threatened to be the most damaging . |
| 29 | Steve Cropper says that Robert Cray and Bonnie Raitt are the only two artists in recent years that he 's watched from the audience — which is either a massive compliment , or an indication of the number of gigs our Steve attends these days . |
| 30 | That 's always been the case , it 's only in recent years that young people have been allowed to go out and enjoy themselves . |