Example sentences of "[prep] recent years [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in the 70s , we were again working in Appalachia ; and in recent years we have expanded our program to again include the entire south . ’ |
| 2 | Additives : In recent years we have been made more aware of the danger of excessive artificial additives in our food and drink . |
| 3 | In recent years we have seen great efforts being made at all levels to ensure that children learn effectively . |
| 4 | In recent years we have been witnessing an attempt to place more emphasis on the first two purposes of education to redress what is considered an imbalance in favour of the third in the three decades following the 1944 Education Act . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , in recent years we have been moving , albeit slowly and hesitantly , towards the view that the primary school should regard itself as one element in a united national service to children . |
| 6 | In recent years we have learned much about the internal anatomy of cephalapsids and galeaspids which had a bony skeleton surrounding the brain and gills . |
| 7 | In recent years we have seen the most thorough pursuit ever carried out to find partners in responsibility for the ailments to which we are subject . |
| 8 | In recent years we have devoted substantial resources to reorganising our education systems in the UK and we see this continuing . |
| 9 | He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain . |
| 10 | My bill falls into two parts , one which deals with the need for a full franchise it is sometimes mistakenly believed that we already have a full franchise in this country , but whereas legislation was passed in the past in order to extend the franchise , in recent years we have let matters slip considerably on the methods that are used for registration and no longer can we claim to have that full franchise . |
| 11 | In recent years we have seen a tremendous growth in interest and the range of activities , ’ said Mr Deighton , whose wife Maura was also a founder . |
| 12 | In recent years they have fallen back . |
| 13 | It is not surprising that in recent years they have served interchangeably in the hands of various theorists as models of each other . |
| 14 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 15 | In recent years they have been streamlined to the point where they are totally identical , except for the name and the cover . |
| 16 | In recent years they have used commercial strategy consultants to undertake this work on behalf of their clients . |
| 17 | IN recent years I have made several trips to Portugal 's Algarve coast and on my last visit in January this year was presented with a booklet entitled ‘ Cricket in Portugal ’ . |
| 18 | After attending Sunday Mass in several parishes in recent years I have experienced attempts in some churches to get the people singing . |
| 19 | ‘ In recent years I have been impressed by the standard of speech training in various parts of the province and it was the same again in Ballyclare where a number of talented young people were on stage . ’ |
| 20 | Over recent years we have been subtly conditioned into an expectation that charities and voluntary organisations should legitimately be used across an ever-increasing range of services . |
| 21 | Over recent years we have become increasingly alarmed by the dramatic growth in aggregates demand and the assumption that this growth will continue and must be catered for . |
| 22 | Over recent years we have become increasingly alarmed by the dramatic growth in aggregates demand and the assumption that this growth will continue and must be catered for . |
| 23 | As I said in answer to an earlier question , over recent years we have agreed 19 directives on the social dimension — more than anyone else in the Community — and we have implemented them . |
| 24 | It would probably be fair to say that views of this kind have been dominant among British socialists from the Labour-left leftwards , but over recent years they have come under increasing criticism , on both theoretical and political grounds . |
| 25 | ‘ Over recent years I have combined my knowledge and skills into the area of fine hand painted furniture , ’ she explained . |