Example sentences of "recent years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years they have fallen back . |
| 2 | It is not surprising that in recent years they have served interchangeably in the hands of various theorists as models of each other . |
| 3 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 4 | In recent years they have been streamlined to the point where they are totally identical , except for the name and the cover . |
| 5 | It would probably be fair to say that views of this kind have been dominant among British socialists from the Labour-left leftwards , but over recent years they have come under increasing criticism , on both theoretical and political grounds . |
| 6 | The Report began by identifying some 130,000 part-time teachers in further and adult education who were at that time employed by local authorities and although nobody knows how many are employed over the country as a whole at present , even after the severe reductions of recent years they are likely to number more than 100,000 . |
| 7 | In recent years they have used commercial strategy consultants to undertake this work on behalf of their clients . |
| 8 | In recent years they 've all got the real ale kick and always have too many pumps , which means that the throughput is slow and four out of five beers go off before they 're half sold . |
| 9 | And in recent years they 've played a growing role in encouraging the public to recycle their rubbish . |
| 10 | And in the 70s , we were again working in Appalachia ; and in recent years we have expanded our program to again include the entire south . ’ |
| 11 | Additives : In recent years we have been made more aware of the danger of excessive artificial additives in our food and drink . |
| 12 | For example The Sunday Times has asserted that , ‘ In recent years we 've experienced a new , aggressive , liberated criminality in women ’ ( 30 March , 1980 ) . |
| 13 | In recent years we met less often and yet he could conjure up an incident which made us both feel it had all happened a few days ago . |
| 14 | In recent years we have seen great efforts being made at all levels to ensure that children learn effectively . |
| 15 | In recent years we have been witnessing an attempt to place more emphasis on the first two purposes of education to redress what is considered an imbalance in favour of the third in the three decades following the 1944 Education Act . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , in recent years we have been moving , albeit slowly and hesitantly , towards the view that the primary school should regard itself as one element in a united national service to children . |
| 17 | In recent years we have learned much about the internal anatomy of cephalapsids and galeaspids which had a bony skeleton surrounding the brain and gills . |
| 18 | Over recent years we have been subtly conditioned into an expectation that charities and voluntary organisations should legitimately be used across an ever-increasing range of services . |
| 19 | In recent years we have seen the most thorough pursuit ever carried out to find partners in responsibility for the ailments to which we are subject . |
| 20 | Over recent years we have become increasingly alarmed by the dramatic growth in aggregates demand and the assumption that this growth will continue and must be catered for . |
| 21 | Over recent years we have become increasingly alarmed by the dramatic growth in aggregates demand and the assumption that this growth will continue and must be catered for . |
| 22 | Before looking at the way in which the sector has changed in recent years we examine the role of the Bank of England . |
| 23 | But in recent years we noticed that some candidates were writing to us — or their employers were writing — to say that certificates had n't been received for modules completed one or more years previously . |
| 24 | In recent years we have devoted substantial resources to reorganising our education systems in the UK and we see this continuing . |
| 25 | He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain . |
| 26 | As I said in answer to an earlier question , over recent years we have agreed 19 directives on the social dimension — more than anyone else in the Community — and we have implemented them . |
| 27 | Gorbachev disclosed that " for the first time in recent years we laid quite a strong stress on what our economic relations should be like " , although he failed to provide details on the precise content of the talks . |
| 28 | Now , er , before I hand over to Frank er , a word about the dividend er , in recent years we 've paid an interim dividend which was half the total of the previous year 's dividends and so , er , had a built-in increase . |
| 29 | My bill falls into two parts , one which deals with the need for a full franchise it is sometimes mistakenly believed that we already have a full franchise in this country , but whereas legislation was passed in the past in order to extend the franchise , in recent years we have let matters slip considerably on the methods that are used for registration and no longer can we claim to have that full franchise . |
| 30 | Because there 's been a dramatic increase in traffic in recent years we need to assess the impact on the river 's special environment . |