Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] in recent years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Problems with maintenance on timber cladding have been the main reason why upvc ( unplasticised polyvinyl chloride ) versions have been gaining popularity in recent years . |
| 2 | of Rational UK Ltd looks at one of the greatest inventions of cooking equipment in recent years in the professional kitchen — the combi-steamer . |
| 3 | Although the country had extensive overseas investments , the government-owned Air Nauru and the Nauru Pacific shipping line were thought to have made losses in recent years of hundreds of millions of dollars . |
| 4 | Aspirin has been reported to cause hepatotoxicity in recent years . |
| 5 | The excitement of the exhibition concerns the opportunity to place many works around the park 's lake where they will create an impression quite different to the context of brutal architecture of the Hayward Gallery , or of the European Patent Office in Munich and of other cities for which King has made commissions in recent years . |
| 6 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments about the policies that we have been pursuing and economic prosperity in the Province , where we have seen advances in recent years . |
| 7 | THE Law and its administration have seen changes in recent years and there are more to come . |
| 8 | Although we have seen benefits in recent years , there is lots of mileage left in Magnus . |
| 9 | This is the first time the ABRC 's report has not been made public in recent years . |
| 10 | It also asks about their work , their educational qualifications , and whether they have moved house in recent years . |
| 11 | Although some fertility clinics have offered counselling in recent years , it is only as a result of the new legislation that all clinics have to employ counsellors in order to be licensed . |
| 12 | Going Rates In recent years most SCE entrants have attained grades A , A , A , B , B or better and have returned for a sixth year at school . |
| 13 | They have become commoner in recent years as business executives and their employers have sought a means of solving disputes without recourse to courts of law . |
| 14 | The fact that the cortex consists of two hemispheres which may be doing different things has particularly excited writers in recent years . |
| 15 | Porta caval shunt operations have not found favour in recent years because of the increased incidence of postoperative hepatic encephalopathy . |
| 16 | Hewden Stuart has spent £200m in recent years on plant replacement and modernisation . |
| 17 | ONE of Miami 's most racially charged trials in recent years was nearing a climax yesterday , as the jury deliberated on the fate of a Hispanic policeman whose killing of two blacks sparked off rioting in January . |
| 18 | These more co-operative instincts have led China in recent years to end military support for the Khmers Rouges in Cambodia , to patch up relations with India and extend a firmer hand of reconciliation to Taiwan ( see page 75 ) . |
| 19 | Other assets , are constituted mainly by equipment , e.g. computers , in which considerable investment has taken place in recent years . |
| 20 | The chapters by Rowntree , Broadfoot and Nuttall examine a number of key developments in the assessment of pupil performance , and point to the rapid speed and scale of changes that have taken place in recent years . |
| 21 | As a result , two changes have taken place in recent years in the way in which the mother-child relationship is being studied . |
| 22 | This chapter looks at the existing pattern of UK taxation and the changes that have taken place in recent years . |
| 23 | The rule requiring automatic exchange of witness statements in personal injury actions came into effect on 16 November 1992 and is one of the single most significant changes in the pattern of litigation to have taken place in recent years . |
| 24 | They are fully aware that Rangers , who have Englishmen Mark Hateley , Dale Gordon and Trevor Steven in their squad , have a great record of avoiding trouble in recent years . |
| 25 | Whilst I know of no specific legend attached to them , the Tingle Stone and the Twizzle Stone , both in Gloucestershire , are very suggestive of just the sort of effects which have been reported at standing stones in recent years . |
| 26 | The popular image of the absent-minded , long-haired professor may have given way in recent years to the well-suited , urbane telly-don , but college teachers are still often represented as colourful , eccentric and even controversial figures : exotic creatures , trapped in a forlorn struggle between an unfeeling college bureaucracy on the one hand and an unthinking — nay , an invincible — student ignorance on the other . |
| 27 | This , together with improvements in diet and exercise and also in the average man 's or woman 's physical environment throughout the century , may account for the decline in the death-rate which has continued to take place in recent years for those who have already reached middle age ( see Table I.6 ) . |
| 28 | These have lost favour in recent years . |
| 29 | A growing realisation of the threat posed to the economies and stability of States and the well-being of their citizens by drug-trafficking and international crime has prompted governments in recent years to give very high priority to the development of effective international mechanisms to meet that threat . |
| 30 | Consultative arrangements of this sort have been attempted in relation to a number of planning decisions in recent years . |