Example sentences of "[prep] recent years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The former Soviet international has established herself as the world 's leading female middle distance runner in recent years she won the 1500 metres and 3,000 metres at the inaugural World Championships in Rome in 1987 and finished third and first respectively in the same events at the Seoul Olympics a year later . |
| 32 | In recent years he has set himself up as a crusader for higher press and broadcasting standards , regularly harking back to the golden days of his journalistic apprenticeship in Yorkshire , where every fact was triple-checked and every speculation ruthlessly suppressed in the Hebden Bridge Times . |
| 33 | But in recent years he has spent £50,000 of his own money and much time on charitable causes . |
| 34 | In recent years he has been closely associated with Hildegard Fritz-Denneville Fine Arts Ltd in Bond Street where his knowledge and connoisseurship are greatly valued and he is still to be found on weekdays in the gallery 's offices . |
| 35 | In recent years he has become increasingly involved in the conservation of neotropical mammals , and now has a deep involvement in research studies in Peru and Ecuador of the mountain tapir , ocelot and giant otter . |
| 36 | In recent years he had often carried cameras with any number of attachments . |
| 37 | In recent years he had made a point of appeasing the fundamentalists at the same time as co-opting left-wing opposition . |
| 38 | In recent years he had stayed only a day or two , until , overcome with boredom , he had returned home to watch Mrs Thatcher 's Leader 's speech on the telly . |
| 39 | Sure , he 's made some mistakes , but after everything he 's done for us in recent years he must be allowed the odd cock-up . |
| 40 | In recent years he played a number of Shakespearean roles on stage , having earned enough from comedy to become a serious actor . |
| 41 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
| 42 | In recent years he has coached many leading Midlands runners , including three times Olympian Lorraine Baker . |
| 43 | IN recent years I have made several trips to Portugal 's Algarve coast and on my last visit in January this year was presented with a booklet entitled ‘ Cricket in Portugal ’ . |
| 44 | After attending Sunday Mass in several parishes in recent years I have experienced attempts in some churches to get the people singing . |
| 45 | ‘ In recent years I have been impressed by the standard of speech training in various parts of the province and it was the same again in Ballyclare where a number of talented young people were on stage . ’ |
| 46 | In recent years I ca n't really think of anybody who 's got near , apart from Batty . |
| 47 | I 've worked with children in various settings , mainly in secondary school , and in recent years I 've worked with students , so when I try to make that sort of categorization I find it very difficult . |
| 48 | Predominantly a coastal bird , where it can usually been seen in large flocks from now until spring , in recent years it has spread inland to breed . |
| 49 | Glass-fibre remains an inexpensive and effective reinforcement material , but in recent years it has been upstaged by Kevlar and carbon fibre , two stronger but more costly materials that owe their high profile largely to their use in formula racing cars . |
| 50 | In recent years it has added to the services it provides for the retired to include financial services , retirement homes and magazine publishing . |
| 51 | I like big heads that are flat at the back , not pointed , and for that reason in recent years it is Korean males who have attracted me most , with their rich , straight black hair laid perpendicularly on that square-backed skull — always , to me , the sign of a male good at mathematics , the sexiest science . |
| 52 | In recent years it has been particularly successful in treating respiratory and urinary tract infections , gastrointestinal infections , infections of the skin and skin structures , bone and joint infections and sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 53 | And in recent years it is impossible not to see that Dale Thomas ' name occurs more than others , including being five times the Club Champion — winning on one occasion after a 60-hole match ! |
| 54 | In recent years it has become fashionable to say that Modi only suffered from poverty because of his drinking and drug-taking . |
| 55 | In recent years it has been modified to reduce labour costs and increase profits through the use of machinery , fertilizers , and chemicals . |
| 56 | The company at one time had a significant tie to the defence industry , but in recent years it has focused on what it knows best — speciality chemicals . |
| 57 | Thus although a marked increase is apparent in recent years it may prove to be due entirely to three freak movements . |
| 58 | In recent years it has become more acceptable to distinguish between different types of learning . |
| 59 | In recent years it has been the guitar that has been changing most rapidly . |
| 60 | 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 ) . |