Example sentences of "[adv] in [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only major Ottoman initiatives against the Karamanids in the years immediately before 822/1419 that are reported by the Turkish sources are two campaigns , apparently in successive years , in each of which the Ottomans defeated Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey and attacked Konya . |
| 2 | MANKIND 'S eternal quest for knowledge about the Universe has been fired afresh in recent years by the spectacular revolution brought about by new astronomy and space technology . |
| 3 | It shows that in fact Germany 's economic performance , especially in recent years , has not been particularly impressive . |
| 4 | The crucial difference , especially in recent years , between the two countries has been in the timing of their respective economic cycles . |
| 5 | Other historians , archaeologists and numismatists , especially in recent years , have offered a radically different view . |
| 6 | Even so , the taille can sometimes be surprisingly good , especially in favourable years , and would in those Champagnes which utilise it , represent but a small proportion of the overall blend of a wine . |
| 7 | To wake up a Woosnam who has struggled on some dull courses and slow greens recently , it took a demanding course and fast greens , even if neither were as demanding nor fast as perhaps in previous years . |
| 8 | Because it inhabits coastal waters in heavily populated and fished areas , the harbour porpoise has suffered greatly in recent years . |
| 9 | The cost of replacing your possessions has risen greatly in recent years . |
| 10 | This does not prevent an employee of one authority being a member of another , and this practice , particularly in London and the large conurbations , has increased greatly in recent years . |
| 11 | This approach is consistent with much historical writing on crime , the quantity of which has increased greatly in recent years , especially in relation to Europe and North America . |
| 12 | The culture of Physics has not changed greatly in recent years . |
| 13 | For , from time to time , more so in recent years , what with bad varicose veins , arthritis and rheumatism , and constant pressures made worse by the bragging Nazi arch-villain Hitler and his threats of war , she had said that death would be a relief . |
| 14 | Although Madeira has always been Portuguese , the British have influenced its thinking and development , but less so in recent years , particularly since the 1974 Revolution and the coming of the island s own political autonomy . |
| 15 | American tax law obliges the Getty to keep spending its dividend income or risk losing its exempt status , so in recent years the museum has dominated the institutional market for art . |
| 16 | Not only has the British government and its agencies borrowed less in recent years than other European governments , it is also the case that , until recently , the private bond market was narrow . |
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| 18 | The business of turning ‘ hot ’ money into legitimate tender is as old as crime itself , but it is only in recent years , largely because of the explosion of the drugs trade , that money laundering has become such a huge business . |
| 19 | It 's only in recent years that I 've learned to use the weather forecast before contemplating a hill-walk . |
| 20 | Building contractors and employers soon became aware that the contracts into which they had entered no longer made provision for those situations which were beginning to arise : but new standard forms were slow to emerge , and it is only in recent years that these have proliferated . |
| 21 | The buildings of the years of expansion reflect the wholesale exploitation of a myriad of individual properties ; only in recent years has the preservation of the medieval field pattern by direct overbuilding been removed as ‘ urban renewal ’ has occurred . |
| 22 | That 's always been the case , it 's only in recent years that young people have been allowed to go out and enjoy themselves . |
| 23 | It is only in recent years that our indigenous antiquities have come to be worth enough on the market for systematic looting to be profitable in a financial sense . |
| 24 | In the Labour Code , no legal obligation to provide nursery facilities has been included and only in recent years has a clause been added to the effect that the state will regulate the obligation of employers to maintain nurseries ( Art . |
| 25 | The military regimes in power have never been averse to arresting leaders of the political opposition , but only in recent years has this become a systematic practice . |
| 26 | Only in recent years has it been straightened . |
| 27 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 28 | Electroencephalography , it is true , had its origins in the nineteenth century but only in recent years has there been an acceleration of interest in lateralised electrophysiological phenomena . |
| 29 | Among the 50 children diagnosed with leukaemia , no suggestion of an unusual distribution of leukaemic subtypes was found , although diagnostic information in the form of chromosome studies and cell markers became available only in recent years . |
| 30 | The extent to which the history of science has been shaped by modern concerns is evident from the fact that only in recent years has the origin of ecology begun to attract much attention . |