Example sentences of "[prep] recent years they " in BNC.
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1 | The Report began by identifying some 130,000 part-time teachers in further and adult education who were at that time employed by local authorities and although nobody knows how many are employed over the country as a whole at present , even after the severe reductions of recent years they are likely to number more than 100,000 . |
2 | In recent years they have fallen back . |
3 | It is not surprising that in recent years they have served interchangeably in the hands of various theorists as models of each other . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | In recent years they have been streamlined to the point where they are totally identical , except for the name and the cover . |
6 | In recent years they have used commercial strategy consultants to undertake this work on behalf of their clients . |
7 | In recent years they 've all got the real ale kick and always have too many pumps , which means that the throughput is slow and four out of five beers go off before they 're half sold . |
8 | And in recent years they 've played a growing role in encouraging the public to recycle their rubbish . |
9 | It would probably be fair to say that views of this kind have been dominant among British socialists from the Labour-left leftwards , but over recent years they have come under increasing criticism , on both theoretical and political grounds . |