Example sentences of "[prep] recent [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He predicted that despite recent police success , the Provisionals were well armed and would resort to using bigger bombs in their terror attacks . |
| 2 | In one third of recent cases countries were required by the IMF to reduce badly needed food subsidies . |
| 3 | And in fact , of recent years Dickens 's Mr Podsnap has walked again , cherishing insularity as a patriotic duty . |
| 4 | President Alan García , who declared Jan. 10 as a national day of mourning , came under strong pressure from leading civil servants and opposition party leaders to intensify security for former as well as present senior government officials , especially in the light of recent police intelligence reports that Sendero Luminoso planned an escalating campaign of violence to disrupt presidential elections due on April 8 . |
| 5 | Kendall received a boost yesterday with every first team player , including recent absentees John Ebbrell , Mo Johnston and Peter Beardsley , training except broken leg victim Mark Ward . |
| 6 | In recent decades communities in the United States and Europe have been confronted by the realisation that lead can severely retard the mental development of their children . |
| 7 | Coates ( 1985 , pp. 27 , 77 ) , for example , argues that in recent decades narrative has broken down to be replaced by a cinema of ‘ isolated heterogeneous events held together by the ramshackle constructions of Victorian melodrama ’ , and that from the mid-1960s we have seen the dissolution of the distinction between realist and non-realist film . |
| 8 | In recent decades biomass has become increasingly important as a source of fuels such as biogas and alcohol . |
| 9 | In recent decades historians have broadened the sources on which they rely as they have widened their views of the past — oral history , archaeology , art , and in the future data and other electronically-stored information will be included . |
| 10 | And I was just thinking then that er Frank Clarke will want will want that sort of speed across the across the ground from Cooper , it 's perhaps something they 've lack in recent games stability at the heart of their defence of Notts Forest . |
| 11 | The Irish Bank Officials ’ Association , over the years , has made a tremendous contribution to the welfare of its members and we know that in recent times IBOA has been engaged in many struggles to protect those terms and conditions . |
| 12 | Chan makes the point that in recent times academics have fared better than the average urban worker . |
| 13 | In recent times polytechnics have had greater powers to develop and validate degree programmes internally . |
| 14 | In recent times gilt has been widely used to create the effect of gold , but during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was a fashion in Europe for silver thrones , like that made for the coronation of the Queen of Denmark in 1731 . |
| 15 | In recent times Nicklaus probably did more than any player in sustaining the aura of Augusta . |
| 16 | They 've written several articles in recent months warning of Land Travel 's plight . |
| 17 | They 've written several articles in recent months warning of Land Travel 's plight . |
| 18 | In recent months Christine Constant has re-introduced us to this idea , and it is this same Boy Scout , Camp-fire type of method that is used here by London-based potter Irene Winsby . |
| 19 | Editor , — In recent months dermatologists have been under increasing pressure from fundholding general practitioners to conduct clinics in the community . |
| 20 | For the third time in recent months residents sufferered the nuisance and threat of unwanted neighbours . |
| 21 | In recent months opposition parties , hostile to his pervasive influence , had called for his resignation . |
| 22 | In recent months Thames Valley police have switched resources to fighting crime in the countryside , a move forced by a sharp rise in offences . |
| 23 | In recent months Mr Adams and the more pragmatic elements in Sinn Fein have been trying to distance themselves from IRA violence , and during the campaign they called for talks about the future of Ireland with all parties to the conflict . |
| 24 | In recent months Town has placed orders for Septrin , a popular antibiotic made in Britain by the Wellcome Foundation , with Wellcome 's Malaysian agent . |
| 25 | In recent months Roman 's leadership had come under pressure from " old-guard " NSF members including President Ion Iliescu . |
| 26 | Team Spirit 92 had been cancelled due to the improving relations between the two Korean states , but in recent months relations had deteriorated as a result of the North 's refusal to accept unscheduled inspection of its nuclear facilities , and the alleged discovery within South Korea of a huge Northern spy network [ see p. 39141 ] . |
| 27 | In recent months foreigners have accounted for almost half of daily trading . |
| 28 | In recent weeks Walesa had launched bitter attacks on the government , accusing it of delaying economic and political reform ( and especially of retaining former communists in the Cabinet ) and of making workers bear the brunt of the current economic austerity plan . |
| 29 | In recent weeks Ankara has taken an increasingly hard line against Syria over the 5,000 Kurdish guerrillas in camps in the Syrian-controlled valley in Lebanon . |
| 30 | In recent weeks stories ( strenuously denied ) have circulated of disagreements between the Fed 's chairman , Alan Greenspan , and the members of the committee that decides the Fed 's interest-rate policy : Mr Greenspan , it is said , is in more of a hurry to push rates down than are his colleagues . |