Example sentences of "in recent [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accelerating property boom is likely , before long , to create a new downtown in the area around Potsdamer Platz and Leipziger Platz — once Berlin 's busiest traffic junction and in recent decades its ugliest wound , a grey no man 's land between two barrier walls . |
| 2 | The greatest of them is the state , which has everywhere taken on more and more tasks in recent decades which have swollen its administrative archives . |
| 3 | For Republicans this was a particularly rewarding set of results ; in recent decades they had enjoyed considerable success in presidential elections , but the victories of Eisenhower and Nixon had not , with the fleeting exception of 1953 — 55 , been flanked by success in Congressional elections . |
| 4 | In recent decades there have been substantial changes in the family and household experiences of people in Britain , especially in the 1980s . |
| 5 | In recent decades there has , however , been more and more chafing at this privileged position . |
| 6 | While it is true that in recent decades it has been made more , rather than less , difficult for elected assemblies to exercise control over public expenditure ( Robinson 1978 ) , it is equally true that political controllers are not completely starved of information about bureaucratic activities . |
| 7 | Linda Ward and Averil Osborn feature in recent changes which have recently been announced by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation 's community care and disability research programme . |
| 8 | It is the first time in recent memory she has missed the ceremony . |
| 9 | Having come from a country afflicted by the worst drought in recent memory it should have come as no surprise that the Namibians were able to handle the Sicilian heat . |
| 10 | ‘ … In recent literature it is stated that the diet of Haas ( Banana-diet ) and Fanconi ( fruit and begetables ) gives the best results in the treatment of patients suffering from coeliac disease . |
| 11 | There is a similar departure from the notion of a fixed sequence of modes of production and their corresponding political and cultural forms in recent works which concentrate their attention upon specific types of political regime which do not necessarily fall within a single time span . |
| 12 | And whilst it is impossible to state categorically that heart disease can be caused by eating too much fat , in recent investigations it was observed that among the groups of people who consumed high amounts of fat the incidence of heart attack was far higher than among those who followed a low fat diet . |
| 13 | In recent year there have been several attempts to produce new kinds of keys . |
| 14 | Er and so er although in security struggles in the event of war we find er that these wars tend to become total wars , and we 've had two of these in the present century , historically speaking in recent times we had another one , anyone know what it was ? |
| 15 | Though politicians often claim that the authority the law claims for itself is justified , there has hardly been any political theorist in recent times who has shared this view . |
| 16 | But then er in recent times she stay in the farm so |
| 17 | In recent times I have been able to go down to the hostel , where my good friend Richard Megson gives me the opportunity to wash in lovely hot water . |
| 18 | In recent times it was feared that Venice was sinking , but modern engineering has come up with a way of pumping water from the mainland to boost the underground water base on which the city rests . |
| 19 | In recent times it is more usual to have some element of discussion , partly because of the increasingly democratic style of organisations and partly because the variety of relevant technology requires a correspondingly wide range of expertise . |
| 20 | The Bank of England used to be the City 's leader ; in recent times it has seemed content to be its cheerleader . |
| 21 | Although Prime Ministers may from time to time use words which suggest that they are not unwilling to exercise their power of appointment , in recent times there is no direct evidence that they have done so . |
| 22 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend accept the good news , contrary to what was said by the hon. Member for Ashfield ( Mr. Haynes ) , that although in recent times my constituency has experienced economic difficulties , so successful has my right hon. and learned Friend 's training and enterprise programme been that the Crawley and District Industries Association has told me that this is the first time during a downturn in the economy when training by companies has increased rather than decreased ? |
| 23 | In recent months their flagrantly communal slogans ( 'Say it with pride — I am a Hindu' ) have propelled them to significant gains in municipal and other elections . |
| 24 | Kathleen Ethrington , 89 , had lived an active life at her home in Eastbourne Road , Darlington , but in recent months her health failed and she was obliged to move into hospital and then to the Wilton House nursing home . |
| 25 | In recent months we have had to review the law in relation to the medical treatment of children : see In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 and In re W. ( A Minor ) ( Inherent Jurisdiction : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] 3 W.L.R. 758 . |
| 26 | Of course , unemployment brings great difficulties in its train and no one regrets that more than I. That is why in recent months we have put in place the widest range of measures that we have ever had to help unemployed people get back to work . |
| 27 | FOLLOWING our business success in recent months we welcome these new staff and wish them every success in their careers with CCG . |
| 28 | The Jet project is formally er continuing until the end of 1992 but in recent months we 've had some very great successes in Jet , the work we 've done is of very high quality and , and certainly world leading , and we can see the way ahead to building an experimental reactor after Jet but there are some very important experiments that need to be done before then . |
| 29 | In recent months they have begun to tear loose from this platform . |
| 30 | In recent months they have even hinted at getting the Russians — who supply much of Ukraine 's oil dirt-cheap — to raise economic barriers that would force it to give way . |