Example sentences of "[conj] in recent years " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is important to state that although in recent years in Britain , there have been many service innovations whose aim has been to improve the home or community care of elderly mentally frail people ( see for example Age Concern England , l983 ) , unfortunately most of these schemes have either not been systematically evaluated ( often because they have been very small in scale ) , or — if they have — results have not been widely disseminated . |
| 2 | It is a Yorkshire dale in a classic sense with sweeping contours and a fierce beauty on the grand scale , although in recent years it has been placed in County Durham ( not that locals pay any attention to such cultural vandalism ) . |
| 3 | Although in recent years , as second incomes have become more important , it is debatable as to whether this finding would still hold true . |
| 4 | In much of Western Europe a predominant characteristic has been trade union pluralism ( and sometimes reluctance to engage in continuous relationships with employers ) promoted by ideological , philosophical and religious differences , although in recent years there has been rather less emphasis upon the importance of religious affinity . |
| 5 | Balance is better achieved by a mixture — often sold as ‘ blood , bone and fish ’ — although in recent years the fish content has been considerably reduced as it is used more and more in animal and pet foodstuffs . |
| 6 | On the other hand , although in recent years the regulation of the financial services industry has generated a lot of judicial review applications against regulatory bodies , the courts have discouraged these largely because they do not want court proceedings to be used as tactical weapons to delay financial transactions by parties disappointed by the failure of a regulatory body to give the applicant the protection it sought from financial predators . |
| 7 | although in recent years there have been significant improvements in the provision of research and library facilities for M.P.s these still lag fir behind those available to their counterparts abroad . |
| 8 | Although in recent years total government capital spending has been of the order of £20 billion per annum , Brown and Jackson ( 1983 , p. 138 ) point out that this represents a real reduction of approximately one half over the past 20 years . |
| 9 | Families of virtually all income levels get more out of the social services than they pay towards them and towards other public expenditure , although in recent years this advantage has been eroded . |
| 10 | Our knowledge of life histories of most deep-sea ophiuroids is poor ( see Tyler , 1980 for a review ) although in recent years there have been several accounts of the reproductive biology of the more common species ( Schoener 1968 , 1972 : Tyler & Gage 1979 , 1980 , 1982 ; Gage & Tyler , 1981 , 1982 ) together with some work on the post-larval stages ( Schoener 1967 , 1969 ; Gage & Tyler 1981 ) . |
| 11 | It is not surprising that in recent years they have served interchangeably in the hands of various theorists as models of each other . |
| 12 | MI6 remains to this day a secret organisation that does not officially exist despite the fact that in recent years there have been numerous books written about its activities . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Committee of London Clearing Bankers told us that in recent years the banks have been opening an increasing number of accounts for customers in the middle to lower income groups . |
| 15 | Yet research into contemporary demography and statistics soon demonstrates that in recent years there have been dramatic changes in trends and patterns of marriage , divorce and cohabitation . |
| 16 | Peter Smith believes that in recent years a new type of upward influence has developed called ‘ whistle blowing ’ . |
| 17 | There is some debate about exactly how flexible bonus payments have been and some argue that in recent years bonuses and basic wages have followed similar trends . |
| 18 | I refer not only to the fact that the match started with two wides , courtesy of Chris Lewis ; not only to the strange sight of an opening bowler in odd socks ( Neil Mallender black left sock , white right sock ) ; not only to the fact that England had no player with three initials for the first time since the third Test against New Zealand in 1990 , the selectors having left out Salisbury and having sent get-well-soon messages to DeFreitas , Tufnell and Fraser ; not only to the fact that Mallender joined the huge list of Test opening bowlers with a double ‘ I ’ in their name ( a list that in recent years has included Dilley , Allott , Small , Williams and Ellison : expect Millns to add his name to the pile soon . |
| 19 | Here we simply remark that in recent years the idea that a linguistic string ( a sentence ) can be fully analysed without taking ‘ context ’ into account has been seriously questioned . |
| 20 | Several mentioned that in recent years the rate of voluntary leaving had decreased so that they were no longer able to rely upon increasing or slowing down the rate of recruitment to maintain their labour forces at the desired level . |
| 21 | It is notable that in recent years , the ‘ Tebbit doctrine ’ has sought to narrow the scope of monopoly and merger references to cases that raise clear issues of competition . |
| 22 | While it remains to be seen which , if any , of these options is adopted , it is not very encouraging that in recent years a number of offers of adoption have apparently been made by national bodies , only to be discouraged by the DES . |
| 23 | The fact that in recent years a very large number of children have had their work in art , music , drama and dance submitted for public examinations ( Vickerman , 1986 ) suggests that there are some compelling reasons why arts teachers seem to be willing to overcome their basic feelings of unease about this process . |
| 24 | How far present-day societies are likely to proceed along this road is a matter of debate ( and I shall return to the question in Chapter 6 ) , but at the least it has to be recognized that in recent years the idea of political action has been very substantially broadened , so that there is already a quite widespread awareness of the variety of ways in which individuals and groups of individuals can assert their dissent from the policies of government at all levels ( for example , the revolt against the poll tax in Britain ) and bring into the arena of public debate alternative policies . |
| 25 | Does my hon. Friend agree that in recent years the income of farmers in Scotland , particularly those in the less-favoured areas , has fallen substantially ? |
| 26 | I am pleased to report that in recent years commercial and retail development in Belfast have reached unprecedented levels . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Bela Kádár , the Hungarian permanent representative to COMECON , said on Jan. 5 that in recent years the organization had " lost touch with the realities of international politics and economics " , and that for this reason it had been essential to wind it up . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the fact that in recent years some clinicians have had cause to question the cultural background suggests that it can no longer be neglected . |
| 30 | It has been said that in recent years his allegiance shifted from Sisley to Monet ! ’ |