Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This is more evident than ever in recent years with the amorally materialistic culture which has been encouraged by the present Government 's economic and social policies . |
| 3 | Poor irrigation , transport , education , and medicine multiplied the chances of disaster , together with the fact that even in good years many peasants hardly existed above subsistence level . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The solid-coloured , hardy breeds of central and southern France include some traditional dairy breeds now developed as suckler cows for commercial crosses , and the massive traditional draught breeds which are now so important as sires for those beef crosses , a role in which their influence has become widespread in Europe and elsewhere in recent years . |
| 6 | Imagination has been associated especially with the arts , and thus in recent years has been increasingly downgraded . |
| 7 | It is maintained separately from the General Fund because the policy has been , and particularly in recent years , to try to cover operating expenses by rents charged and housing grants . |
| 8 | And Glasgow , at the nadir of urban deprivation in Scotland , has improved relatively and absolutely in recent years , as a result of the activities of the SDA and other bodies . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Some Marxists , among them Rosa Luxemburg and the Austro-Marxists , were early critics of the Soviet dictatorship , but only in recent years was there a widespread and fundamental questioning of the whole idea of dictatorship , and a revaluation of peaceful , democratic forms of political change , especially by those intellectuals and political leaders associated with the Eurocommunist movement . |
| 12 | The long-standing resistance to urban and industrial encroachment continues , but increasingly in recent years the defenders of the rural environment have found themselves fighting on two fronts . |
| 13 | To wake up a Woosnam who has struggled on some dull courses and slow greens recently , it took a demanding course and fast greens , even if neither were as demanding nor fast as perhaps in previous years . |