Example sentences of "in [adj] years it has [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In five years it has built up a fleet of 65 lorries and 85 trailers , all of them leased . |
| 2 | But in recent years it has lost its fury . |
| 3 | In recent years it has begun to experience high levels of adult and youth unemployment . |
| 4 | In recent years it has moved far more towards conceptualization in terms of ‘ theory ’ and ‘ practice ’ , to the extent that in some areas ( e.g. Iocational studies , certain parts of geomorphology ) the theory dominates the practice . |
| 5 | In recent years it has become fashionable to say that Modi only suffered from poverty because of his drinking and drug-taking . |
| 6 | In recent years it has become more acceptable to distinguish between different types of learning . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | Predominantly a coastal bird , where it can usually been seen in large flocks from now until spring , in recent years it has spread inland to breed . |
| 15 | The company at one time had a significant tie to the defence industry , but in recent years it has focused on what it knows best — speciality chemicals . |
| 16 | In recent years it has added to the services it provides for the retired to include financial services , retirement homes and magazine publishing . |
| 17 | In recent years it has paid particular attention to M0 , M4 and M5 . |