Example sentences of "in recent [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In recent decades communities in the United States and Europe have been confronted by the realisation that lead can severely retard the mental development of their children .
2 Coates ( 1985 , pp. 27 , 77 ) , for example , argues that in recent decades narrative has broken down to be replaced by a cinema of ‘ isolated heterogeneous events held together by the ramshackle constructions of Victorian melodrama ’ , and that from the mid-1960s we have seen the dissolution of the distinction between realist and non-realist film .
3 In recent decades biomass has become increasingly important as a source of fuels such as biogas and alcohol .
4 In recent decades historians have broadened the sources on which they rely as they have widened their views of the past — oral history , archaeology , art , and in the future data and other electronically-stored information will be included .
5 And I was just thinking then that er Frank Clarke will want will want that sort of speed across the across the ground from Cooper , it 's perhaps something they 've lack in recent games stability at the heart of their defence of Notts Forest .
6 The Irish Bank Officials ’ Association , over the years , has made a tremendous contribution to the welfare of its members and we know that in recent times IBOA has been engaged in many struggles to protect those terms and conditions .
7 Chan makes the point that in recent times academics have fared better than the average urban worker .
8 In recent times polytechnics have had greater powers to develop and validate degree programmes internally .
9 In recent times gilt has been widely used to create the effect of gold , but during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was a fashion in Europe for silver thrones , like that made for the coronation of the Queen of Denmark in 1731 .
10 In recent times Nicklaus probably did more than any player in sustaining the aura of Augusta .
11 They 've written several articles in recent months warning of Land Travel 's plight .
12 They 've written several articles in recent months warning of Land Travel 's plight .
13 In recent months Christine Constant has re-introduced us to this idea , and it is this same Boy Scout , Camp-fire type of method that is used here by London-based potter Irene Winsby .
14 Editor , — In recent months dermatologists have been under increasing pressure from fundholding general practitioners to conduct clinics in the community .
15 For the third time in recent months residents sufferered the nuisance and threat of unwanted neighbours .
16 In recent months opposition parties , hostile to his pervasive influence , had called for his resignation .
17 In recent months Thames Valley police have switched resources to fighting crime in the countryside , a move forced by a sharp rise in offences .
18 In recent months Mr Adams and the more pragmatic elements in Sinn Fein have been trying to distance themselves from IRA violence , and during the campaign they called for talks about the future of Ireland with all parties to the conflict .
19 In recent months Town has placed orders for Septrin , a popular antibiotic made in Britain by the Wellcome Foundation , with Wellcome 's Malaysian agent .
20 In recent months Roman 's leadership had come under pressure from " old-guard " NSF members including President Ion Iliescu .
21 Team Spirit 92 had been cancelled due to the improving relations between the two Korean states , but in recent months relations had deteriorated as a result of the North 's refusal to accept unscheduled inspection of its nuclear facilities , and the alleged discovery within South Korea of a huge Northern spy network [ see p. 39141 ] .
22 In recent months foreigners have accounted for almost half of daily trading .
23 In recent weeks Walesa had launched bitter attacks on the government , accusing it of delaying economic and political reform ( and especially of retaining former communists in the Cabinet ) and of making workers bear the brunt of the current economic austerity plan .
24 In recent weeks Ankara has taken an increasingly hard line against Syria over the 5,000 Kurdish guerrillas in camps in the Syrian-controlled valley in Lebanon .
25 In recent weeks stories ( strenuously denied ) have circulated of disagreements between the Fed 's chairman , Alan Greenspan , and the members of the committee that decides the Fed 's interest-rate policy : Mr Greenspan , it is said , is in more of a hurry to push rates down than are his colleagues .
26 During a visit to Taiwan in mid-November — to open a £150m terephthalic acid plant — Sir Denys claimed that the merger was still on course , but in recent weeks doubt has been cast on whether the demerger will go ahead , at least in the immediate future .
27 I realized that in recent weeks Hyde had become bigger and stronger , both in body and character .
28 In recent weeks Bakatin had come under criticism from senior military and KGB officers for his perceived failure to tackle the current crime wave , and for suggesting decentralization of control of limited contingents of Interior Ministry troops to republican governments .
29 In recent weeks attacks on pensioners like mr bishop have escalated .
30 In recent years US unions have not been inactive in the political sphere and have actually had a large degree of impact on influencing legislation concerned with broader social and economic issues ( Lewin , 1978 ) .
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