Example sentences of "years have [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Within a time span of two years has emerged an extensive network of education business practitioners using a variety of backgrounds and experiences in a variety of operating conditions .
2 Martell 's studies of the behaviour of radon decay products show that someone who smokes 20 cigarettes per day for 40 years has received a cumulative dose of about 100 rads at tissue sites in the lungs — a dose powerful enough to spark cancer .
3 A recognition of the need to maintain that sector and through it the full diversity of recorded music in Britain is one reason why the last few years has seen a new interest in the record industry from public bodies concerned with culture and with employment .
4 The last twenty years has seen a major effort , theoretical and observational to understand the evolution of animal societies .
5 Though the last twenty years has seen a major step forward in our understanding of the Scottish Reformation and of Scottish society in the sixteenth century , there is still an extraordinary gulf between the personality and the reign of Mary Queen of Scots .
6 The past 10 years has seen a dramatic improvement in Italy 's wine technology led by the latest generation of gifted wine-makers .
7 Sport & Recreation is a very small part of a huge leisure industry which over the last 20 years has seen a massive increase in both the provision of Local Authority facilities and in participation levels .
8 For interest shejoined the Southwark ordination course to study Theology and for some years has written a regular Bible commentary for her Parish Magazine .
9 But even Mr Papandreou , who in recent years has survived a brutal scandal , major heart surgery and a demanding new marriage , is now looking pretty frail .
10 Players on tour are normally paired together as room-mates , a simple organisational expedient that over the years has created an explosive chemistry of scandal and misbehaviour .
11 The economic restructuring of recent years has had a traumatic effect on the estates , with massive job loss and factory closure transforming them into increasingly isolated , state-managed ‘ subsistence communities ’ .
12 Although based in Cardiff , the Welsh National Opera tours extensively , and for the last twelve years has had a regular season in London too .
13 This has forced us to look afresh at the regular London days and , with the prompting of a number of the most regular attenders , we have decided to drop the June day , which in recent years has had a low attendance .
14 However , the growing number of students with instrumental proficiency in recent years has meant an increasing concentration on orchestral work .
15 The standard of play over the past few years has shown a considerable step-up and the cream of the local talent now face a daunting challenge in their bid to reclaim the title for ‘ home ’ keeping .
16 Print publishing over the past four years has shown an annual growth of some 8% but electronic ( non-print ) publishing over the same period has reached an annual growth rate of some 20% .
17 The rampant sexism of the climbing and walking fraternity over the last 50 years has left a whole generation of older women with the legacy of being expected to have the white-bearded , old sod 's tea ready for him on the table when he comes home from a fabulous day out on the hills .
18 The past ten years have witnessed a tremendous growth in the number and variety of transport services provided by the transport sector .
19 But recent years have witnessed a remarkable example of their ability to adapt to change .
20 Yet , as we shall see , the last few years have witnessed a remarkable upsurge in research in those areas where quantification is possible , such as strike activity and its determinants ( see Chapter 6 ) .
21 Other public sector bodies have adopted a similar approach , although recent years have witnessed a growing tendency , particularly in the nationalized industries , for an increasing proportion of capital expenditure to be financed out of current expenditure .
22 Recent years have witnessed an unprecedented welter of managerial initiatives designed to put labour onto a more competitive footing by rendering it more flexible , productive , and oriented to quality .
23 The last few years have witnessed an unprecedented period of economic depression for Wales accompanied by massive youth unemployment .
24 The last few years have seen a tremendous amount of' reconstruction , both internally and externally , some parts of the building having been perilously close to collapse .
25 These past few years have seen a sharp decline in morality .
26 Recent years have seen a developing concern with individualism and the resulting difficulties surrounding working class political organisation .
27 Recent years have seen a good deal of change and instability in energy markets and the aim of the study is to investigate how these have influenced , or have been influenced by , the form of contractual behaviour in the markets .
28 However , the last few years have seen a major closure programme of deep mines in Wales as elsewhere .
29 Recent years have seen a great expansion in the number of librarians working in educational institutions and specializing in educational librarianship ; in Britain this was a later development than in the USA , but none the less the libraries of almost all colleges of education , further education and technology are now run by chartered librarians , and some five hundred or more librarians are also found in secondary schools .
30 Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in research and publications on post-war British history .
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