Example sentences of "[prep] recent years [coord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many fishermen have done well in recent years but they now face great pressure on the fish stocks . |
| 2 | The retired docker 's health has suffered in recent years and he has trouble getting up the stairs at their maisonette . |
| 3 | The retired docker 's health has suffered in recent years and he has trouble getting up the stairs at their maisonette . |
| 4 | However , a great deal has been achieved in recent years and I shall always be proud of the Department and more importantly its employees . |
| 5 | That has improved in recent years and I congratulate the local authority and the local schools and colleges on that . |
| 6 | Men have got a bad press in recent years and I think it 's important that women should feel safe and secure with the new contacts they make . |
| 7 | The number of non-party political members of principal councils has declined steadily in recent years and it is usual in the large towns and cities for the authority to be governed by one or more of the political parties acting on a group basis . |
| 8 | Add to this the rapid growth in the numbers of expeditions , climbers and trekkers which has occurred in recent years and it is not surprising that the problem has reached massive proportions despite the availability of new access sites from Tibet which was opened to climbers in 1980 . |
| 9 | The IT industry has been subject to rapid development in recent years and it is confidently expected that this trend will continue . |
| 10 | The debate over what has become known as ‘ blindsight ’ has become very heated in recent years and it is difficult to see which side is correct . |
| 11 | It challenges some of the teaching methods that have been used in recent years and it suggests that schools should concentrate on commonsense , practical teaching . |
| 12 | Timothy Langdale , QC , counsel for Guppy , said he had had high expenses in recent years and it should not be assumed ‘ that there is some pot of gold stuck in some foreign country ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Without Roland Garros , French tennis could never have developed in the way it has over recent years and we would never have won the Davis Cup , which has given us all such a tremendous boost . ’ |
| 14 | Indeed , hundreds have successfully completed modules over recent years and it is evident that the National Certificate 's flexibility is as viable in prisons as in any other centre . |