Example sentences of "recent [noun] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My most recent teaching before I started on this book was in Vancouver with a class of mixed ages — ten to thirteen years , I guess . |
| 2 | I can think of a dozen men of much more recent notoriety if she was simply inventing it for some cranky reason of her own . |
| 3 | Davis 's other objection , that islands within barrier reefs should show signs of recent cliffing if they had been strongly attacked by marine erosion during low glacial sea levels , is , according to Daly , due to Davis misinterpreting the Glacial Control theory , which does not involve glacial but preglacial planations . |
| 4 | There are other problems , apart from the fact that Harrison 's evidence dates from 1790 and if there was a regular working pattern in Bristol it may have been of more recent origin than he suggests . |
| 5 | Just about time to take in the portraits of the most recent Ambassadors before she was at his side , hair in a bun , flat shoes , blouse and cardigan , and shaking his hand and making him welcome . |
| 6 | How does he reconcile that with the rather desperate hints given by the Secretary of State in recent weeks as he vainly tried to rally his troops in the recent by-election ? |
| 7 | I draw his attention to the fact that we are now net exporters of televisions whereas we were net importers under the Labour party and to the fact that motor output has been expanding in recent years whereas it was declining under Labour . |
| 8 | In large scale industry ( such as the Automotive Industry ) the use of cordless tools has been steadily increasing in recent years so it is by no means novel technology . |
| 9 | A spokeswoman for Mersey Docks and Harbour Company said : ’ They are now quite old and have not been in regular use in recent years so it was decided to dismantle them to improve the appearance of the area . |
| 10 | The Detectives , which pulled in bumper viewing figures when it was shown on BBC earlier this year , was a revelation for Jasper whose stand-up routines of recent years if I can be frank were dire . |
| 11 | But the sweet taste of success has gone sour over recent years as he slumped into the doldrums . |
| 12 | Accommodation and compromise have not characterized the attitudes and actions of the young university-educated activists of the DUP of recent years because they grew up in the zero-sum game , and even if they forgot its rules long enough to consider shifting the DUP 's aims , there is no reason to suppose that the voters would support them in their deviation . |
| 13 | Subscribers have the chance to ignore unwanted calls but can also use the system to record the numbers of recent callers when they are away from their homes . |
| 14 | Some of the emphasis which is placed on general and mass trends in modern history arises from a sort of optical illusion , because we have so much more information about the general nature and working of recent societies than we have for earlier periods . |
| 15 | So we see that all the problems of correlation are just as real in recent history as they are in the stratigraphical record , once we have lost the advantage of the date at the top of the newspaper or letter . |
| 16 | And it is certainly true that , on previous form , the centre party has failed to extract any long-term benefit from recent occasions when it has held the balance of power . |