Example sentences of "recent years [pers pn] have become " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over recent years we have become increasingly alarmed by the dramatic growth in aggregates demand and the assumption that this growth will continue and must be catered for . |
| 2 | Over recent years we have become increasingly alarmed by the dramatic growth in aggregates demand and the assumption that this growth will continue and must be catered for . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In recent years it has become fashionable to say that Modi only suffered from poverty because of his drinking and drug-taking . |
| 5 | In recent years it has become more acceptable to distinguish between different types of learning . |
| 6 | Much of the Forestry Commission 's early planting was certainly crude and insensitive , but in recent years it has become more attentive to its landscaping responsibilities ( not least because the Forestry Commission has found that there is money to be made out of tourism if it does so ) and now employs landscape consultants to advise on its planting policies . |
| 7 | It is normally defined as the intra-urban movement of population from the inner to the outer parts of the same urban region , but in more recent years it has become inextricably bound up with the patterns of inter-urban redistribution associated with the urban-rural shift . |
| 8 | In recent years it has become common , when the whole of the stated authorised share capital is not intended to be issued initially , to designate the unissued shares as ‘ unclassified shares . ’ |
| 9 | This standard was developed with commercial accounts in mind and it confirms the view that depreciation is a matter of allocation , not of valuation ; though in recent years it has become acceptable to allocate revalued amounts . |
| 10 | Often they still are , but in recent years it has become common for other senior academics to act as heads of departments , sometimes in rotation . |
| 11 | In recent years it has become clear that certain tumour derived cell lines can be associated with the production of gut peptides , and that some of these peptides are mitogenic to the same cells . |
| 12 | In recent years it has become the practice in leases granted for more than five years or so to contain some machinery for enabling the rent to be reviewed , either continuously or at periodic intervals . |
| 13 | In recent years it has become increasingly common for businesses buying and selling goods and services to seek to rely on standard terms of trading to govern their contracts . |
| 14 | I N recent years it has become I increasingly obvious that I councils prepared to ‘ deal ’ with the private sector in this way will be ‘ rewarded ’ . |