Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Criticising this development , Lyons says : ‘ Linguists have been very much concerned in recent years with the postulation of universals of language structure and have all too often discounted the differences among languages ’ ( 1982 ) . |
| 2 | Ian Hannah is likely to receive a much heavier punishment after his fifth sending-off in three years at Bradford . ’ |
| 3 | The National Executive also noted " the proclaimed fact that the present application for affiliation is but an evidence of the deviation in the tactics which have been pursued by the Communist International in recent years " . |
| 4 | Common dolphins have virtually disappeared from the western Mediterranean in recent years and hundreds of striped dolphins have died in the Mediterranean since 1990 [ see ED nos. 55 , 58 , 59 ] . |
| 5 | Most significant in recent years have been the field experiments carried out by the British ornithologists Nick Davies and Mike Brooke from the University of Cambridge , and the field observations of another British ornithologist , Ian Wyllie . |