Example sentences of "in recent years [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most telling passage , indeed , were those recapitulating the Ripper trial — which uniquely in recent years illustrated the harshness of that interface , for all our liberal decencies . |
| 2 | All in all , Britain has in recent years received six times as much investment from abroad as Germany , and three times as much as France — a major success story for the UK . |
| 3 | Government changes to the tax system in recent years had allowed the company to come up with a solution which would make shares which had been trading at less than £3 last month to £5 , Mr Ritblat said . |
| 4 | Officials said the supply of money remained high relative to economic activity , and that companies that did not speculate excessively in land and shares in recent years had plenty of liquidity . |
| 5 | The Federal Cartel Office had on April 20 , 1989 , objected to the proposed takeover on the grounds that it would lead to market domination in the arms , aerospace and truck industries by Daimler-Benz , which in recent years had taken over another aerospace company , Dornier , the electrical concern AEG and the engineering company MTU . |
| 6 | The Democratic candidate made a clean sweep of the states in New England ( the first time since 1964 ) and made inroads into the southern states which in recent years had been solidly Republican . |
| 7 | Several problems with the control of asbestos on the North tees Works in recent years had highlighted the need to take action . |
| 8 | One of the more striking interventions by the courts in recent years came when the Court of Appeal overturned the decision by the Secretary of State for the Environment to allow the demolition of listed buildings in the City of London . |
| 9 | As the speeches of your Lordships show Parliament has in recent years made many inroads into the privilege in a number of statutes . |
| 10 | Some of these caribou have in recent years suffered greatly , at human hands . |
| 11 | First of all , increased interest in the female spectator has in recent years spawned a number of collections of film criticism which ask important new questions of feminist film theorists . |
| 12 | The Cripps-Day mourning hood , the only surviving ‘ late sixteenth-century ’ item of its kind , has in recent years proved to be little more than a nineteenth-century pastiche . |
| 13 | I have in recent years edited a self-help journal for people with AIDS , written for the national press and researched a variety of medical material for television . |
| 14 | I have in recent years edited a self-help journal for people with AIDS , written for the national press and researched a variety of medical material for television . |
| 15 | For example , there have been a large number of initiatives by local authorities in recent years intended to improve the local economy , many of which have been undertaken under section 137 of the Local Government Act 1972 , to incur expenditure which in the authority 's opinion is in the interests of their area . |
| 16 | In recent years sled dogs have been replaced by snowmobiles , so now the main incentive for the whale hunt is the narwhal 's single ivory tusk . |
| 17 | The 19th-century legend of Kaspar Hauser , that strange boy with no origins and no language , who appeared as if from nowhere , has in recent years reappeared in a film by Werner Herzog and in the poetry of Georg Trakl . |
| 18 | IT WAS a strange coincidence that Harry Mead should write about the Northern Ireland situation on the very day that one of the worst atrocities in recent years occurred ( Echo January 17 ) . |
| 19 | The fisheries minister , Thorsteinn Pálsson , justified the move on the grounds that the IWC had in recent years concentrated exclusively on conservation aspects of whaling , while according to its charter it had a twofold task of both conserving and exploiting whales . |
| 20 | Several German banks have in recent years set up capital market units in London to trade deutschmark bonds . |
| 21 | ‘ I have been alarmed at the easy way the Labour Party has in recent years allowed certain factions in society to dictate to them the philosophical approach they should be following . |