Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] years [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others who have undertaken the care of the church and halls in later years have been Mrs Bell , Mrs Carson , Mr and Mrs Redpath , Mr James Twyble , Mr John Lavery , Mrs David Binks , Mrs K McClatchey and Mr William McFadden . |
| 2 | If there was a drawback to this grand strategy , it is that some of the gramophone recordings in recent years have lacked the startling intensity and insights of the theatre performances they have helped to prepare . |
| 3 | As the police in both countries in recent years have relied increasingly on notions of professionalism to defend themselves against political attack , so police organizations have asserted themselves more publicly to promote not only their own organization , but also particular policies regarding law and order which they deem to be necessary . |
| 4 | AN ELDERLY couple rarely seen outside their home in recent years have been found dead with more than £30,000 in cupboards and under floorboards . |
| 5 | Advances in molecular biology in recent years have served to emphasize the possible relationships between homoeopathy , immunology and genetics . |
| 6 | Initiatives in under-fives and special needs in recent years have stemmed in part from these recommendations , some of which , of course , formed the basis of the 1981 Education Act . |
| 7 | Medical advances in recent years have made male and female sterilisation simpler and more acceptable to many people . |
| 8 | While this was not a major consideration when the trial was originally planned the considerable advances in recent years have meant that the significant proportion of the patients recruited into studies such as this are likely to be potential transplant recipients . |
| 9 | Participants in recent years have included The Jesus And Mary Chain , PIL , Robert Cray Band etc . |
| 10 | Does not the record in recent years show that such contacts can facilitate the resumption of diplomatic relations , especially if tackled on an all-party basis by Members of this House ? |
| 11 | As a consequence of government policy , many of the challenges to the exercise of ministerial discretion in recent years have been instituted by Labour local authorities . |
| 12 | Examples of the granting of negative clearances or individual exemptions by the Commission and confirmed by the European Court in recent years include : |
| 13 | On the one hand there have been reports suggesting that the vaccine can cause brain damage , albeit in a tiny minority of children and , on the other , the whooping cough epidemics in recent years have re-awakened fears of the damage the disease itself can inflict . |
| 14 | Internal party reforms in recent years have ensured that the delegates to American party conventions are more representative of the population as a whole , with increased numbers of young people , ethnic minorities and women participating . |
| 15 | It is worth noting , for instance , that all the new titles coming out in the United Kingdom in recent years have had substantial backing from a variety of sources : finance corporations , industrial interests , media interests , and so on . |
| 16 | Some of the well known yachts which have emerged from West in recent years include the quarter-tonner Diamond , the Laurent Giles/Warwick Collins-designed Phantom , the Dubois one tonner Midnight Express , and Rapscallion of Russel a cruising version of Phantom . |
| 17 | Most of her research and publications in recent years have concerned residential care , quality of life , and social work developments in relation to older people and their families . |
| 18 | Placements in recent years have included the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford , the Royal Court , the Glasgow Citizens ' Theatre , and the Abbey Theatre , Dublin . |
| 19 | His shamanistic beliefs and espousal of the Zippy/techno-pagan attitudes that have flourished in clubland in recent years mean that when they 're not running scare stories ( Mister C organises sex and drug cult , Shamen gigs as wild drug orgies etc ) , they can do ‘ Mister C — New Age Wacko ’ stuff instead ( tales of his telepathic connection with his twin sister ) . |
| 20 | Mr Fallon was told some forces in previous years have not been able to take up the extra posts , which have then been redistributed to other places . |
| 21 | The diaries and memoirs of those who worked closely with de Gaulle in these years give the impression that his gradual disengagement from the RPF ( which began in 1951 and was not complete until 1954 ) was not only more protracted but also more painful than his disengagement from the provisional government in January 1946 . |
| 22 | Many of the major controversies concerning local government in recent years have been related to finance . |
| 23 | Many linguists in recent years have questioned the early assumptions of the discipline with regard to literacy and their work now serves to undermine rather than to support those arguments regarding literacy that I have referred to as the ‘ autonomous ’ model . |
| 24 | All pupils in these years follow a general familiarisation course in computer applications timetabled for one period each week . |
| 25 | The first National Assembly elections in thirty years appear to have given the opposition an overwhelming lead . |
| 26 | Most notably , the Spanish strategy was being implemented by a modernizing , socially reformist government , while in Britain the increasing pressures on the railways in recent years have come from a radical Conservative government hostile to the public sector in principle . |
| 27 | Most of the studies of relationships between R&D and production in recent years have been of a qualitative and often anecdotal nature . |
| 28 | The Pope said : ‘ Events in recent years have seriously aggravated the differences between us . ’ |
| 29 | Successive opinion polls in recent years have found only around 10% overall in favour of a united Ireland under present circumstances . |
| 30 | Wilkinson conceded that odds against the title going to Elland Road for the first time in 18 years have ‘ lengthened considerably ’ but he refused to throw in the towel . |