Example sentences of "[adv] in [adj] years [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Only in recent years has it been straightened . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Only in recent years has there been a sustained attempt by Marxist thinkers to re-examine in a thoroughgoing fashion the relation between the state , the economy and social classes , or to analyse that historical experience which reveals the emergence of a new type of authoritarian state from the revolutionary process itself or from the centralized control of a socialist economy . |
| 9 | Tyndall did not in these years hold forth on glaciers at the RI , but on 13 May 1870 Canon Henry Moseley ( father of an eminent zoologist , and grandfather of an eminent physicist ) gave a Discourse on the descent of glaciers . |
| 10 | Imagination has been associated especially with the arts , and thus in recent years has been increasingly downgraded . |
| 11 | Many of the initiatives laboured over in previous years have come to fruition and a host of new ventures has sprung up , bringing fresh opportunities and challenges . |
| 12 | The various African charters on human rights drawn up in recent years have all failed to capture the importance of the right to communicate and the right of free expression , according to a group of leading communicators who met in Cairo , Egypt , 16–17 October . |
| 13 | The various African charters on human rights drawn up in recent years have all failed to capture the importance of the right to communicate and the right of free expression , according to a group of leading communicators who met in Cairo , Egypt , 16–17 October . |
| 14 | Another important factor contributing to the lower-risk insurance element was that , quite simply , buildings that have been put up in recent years have been much more structurally sound than those constructed during the '60s and early '70s . |
| 15 | A few pupils have gone on in recent years to study Classics at universities including Oxbridge . |
| 16 | At Chessington attendances pretty well stood still , again a very good performance in my view and er , justification for the capital spending that 's gone on in recent years to bring that er , to bring Chessington to where we want it to be . |
| 17 | Unabashed , he went on in later years to inveigh against pornography and violence in the cinema . |
| 18 | Our UNICEF field workers and medical teams have worked so tirelessly in recent years to bring immunisation to the children of the world . |
| 19 | The most telling passage , indeed , were those recapitulating the Ripper trial — which uniquely in recent years illustrated the harshness of that interface , for all our liberal decencies . |
| 20 | The mixture of agrarianist views put forward in subsequent years have tended to be lumped together under the heading of nó0honshugi , the concept of agriculture as the socio-economic base of society . |
| 21 | Before she died in June , 1913 , so the story goes , she swore to rise again in 80 years to take her revenge . |
| 22 | To me , the fact that she has n't been heard of again in seventeen years puts a different complexion on it . |
| 23 | Another problem arises from the fact that most of the foreign exchange deposits have been made in Deutschemarks , and that the value of the Deutschemark has risen considerably in recent years compared with the value of the dollar . |