Example sentences of "[vb pp] in recent year " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it would undo the anti-inflationary credibility that they have painfully won in recent years , and which is the precise benefit offered by EMS membership . |
| 2 | Dovaston is unable to list them publicly because many of the crimes have been committed in recent years and a number are still sub judice . |
| 3 | The importance of ‘ generic skills ’ has been stressed in recent years by the Manpower Services Commission ( now Training Agency ) as a flexible response to and preparation for a fast-changing economy . |
| 4 | Much of our knowledge about the domestic and workshop accommodation has been derived from aerial survey , supplemented in recent years by larger area excavations and improved recovery techniques . |
| 5 | As we shall see , the latter system has been modified in recent years , but the basic principle upon which the ‘ pool ’ rests remains unchanged , namely that the cost of public sector higher education must be shared among all the local authorities . |
| 6 | The principal investigators will be responsible for interviewing key informants about the way the system has been modified in recent years . |
| 7 | Of the constituent countries of the UK , Northern Ireland had a considerable degree of devolved government but this has been modified in recent years pending resolution of Ireland 's partition problems . |
| 8 | In particular , TV buying has come in recent years to be regarded as something of a separate skill — arguably to the detriment of the media operations of agencies as a whole . |
| 9 | They all have alluvial flood plains or levels of wet permanent pasture in which extensive flooding used to be of frequent occurrence , but many improvement schemes have been instituted in recent years with stretches of river being straightened and flood banks raised . |
| 10 | The platform adopted by the convention on July 13 was very much in Clinton 's moderate image , and was devoid of many of the minority-related positions which it had included in recent years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | On route from Kilham to Lowthorpe , the heavy stone base of the cross fell off at Ruston Parva and embedded itself in the verge side there , from where it was rescued in recent years and now stands on Ruston Parva village green . |
| 13 | They are regularly stocked with rainbow and brown trout , and fish of up to 6lb 12 oz have been caught in recent years . |
| 14 | Few salmon are encountered in Loch Doon these days , but brown trout abound and some huge fish have been caught in recent years . |
| 15 | As we have seen , the civil and political elements of citizenship have been eroded in recent years . |
| 16 | As far as the citizenship of entitlement as formulated by Marshall is concerned , Labour is opposed to the introduction of a Bill of Rights , for example , which would be one way of restoring the civil and political rights which have been eroded in recent years . |
| 17 | But they have been eroded in recent years , and it is likely that this erosion will continue although , as before , it will have varied impact according to issue and ( geographical ) place . |
| 18 | To some extent this latter advantage has been eroded in recent years by the tendency to go for late bookings , at least by the ‘ experienced ’ holiday-maker . |
| 19 | They operate under Royal Charters , appoint their own staff , decide on their own admissions policies and have traditionally had academic freedom in their teaching and research , though the last of these has arguably been eroded in recent years by the ‘ earmarking ’ of government funds for specific subjects , and the need to seek sponsors for particular projects . |
| 20 | Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan has launched an appeal for a centre to rescue orphaned and injured Mediterranean monk seals , whose numbers have collapsed in recent years to the point where they are , according to the Prince , " one of the most forgotten creatures on earth " . |
| 21 | It is reported that Mrs Thatcher has been keen to ensure that those promoted are sympathetic to her scale of values or are not unwilling to break away from the style of middle-of-the-road consensus policies that have predominated in recent years . |
| 22 | Most of the work done in recent years has impinged only on specialists . |
| 23 | Sometimes this seemed indicated , as when he told the legislature they must beware ‘ When we are freeing ourselves from one form of imperialism [ against those who would ] … bind us to another one which would swiftly undo all the work that has been done in recent years to foster … a free and independent nation ’ ; ‘ As we would not have British masters , so we would not have Russian masters . ’ |
| 24 | At the same time , the concept of the unitary individual subject , on which he relies , should come under fire — as it has done in recent years , under the influence of post-structuralist thought . |
| 25 | Secondly , all the groups who are considered to be priorities by both the Government and the Opposition — low-income pensioners , low-income families and disabled people — have benefited significantly from what the Government have done in recent years . |
| 26 | It has suffered in recent years from heavy traffic which the new by — pass will alleviate , but the old market town which I remember from forty-odd years ago is fast becoming yet a multiple retailers ' outlet . |
| 27 | Hence cross-boundary flows , and the inability of districts to control referrals from general practitioners , were a major cause of the financial problems such districts have suffered in recent years . |
| 28 | The retired docker 's health has suffered in recent years and he has trouble getting up the stairs at their maisonette . |
| 29 | The retired docker 's health has suffered in recent years and he has trouble getting up the stairs at their maisonette . |
| 30 | Yet as Comecon 's major source of hydrocarbons the countries have felt in recent years the strain of cutbacks in Soviet oil exports as well as what they consider to be unfair trading terms caused by rising costs which they lack the economic freedom to renegotiate . |