Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [adj] years has " in BNC.

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1 One of the most visible changes in schools in recent years has been the introduction of the General Certificate of Education ( GCSE ) .
2 One of the feminist demands in recent years has been to ‘ reclaim the night ’ .
3 The location of cemeteries alone near the boundaries might be easily explained , but the accumulating evidence from excavated settlements strongly suggests that many had an adjacent cemetery ( Figure 2.8 ) and the excavation of a number of cemeteries in recent years has indicated the presence of a nearby settlement up to 0.5 km away .
4 Insofar as a growth in the use of temporary workers in recent years has been proposed by certain commentators [ see Chapter 2 ] , this growth appears to have occurred largely in the manufacturing sector .
5 One of the Territorial Army 's biggest problems in recent years has been the substantial turnover of recruits , which has amounted to as much as 30 per cent .
6 This proved to be a fateful oversight since one of the most devastating criticisms to be levelled at Keynesian macroeconomics in recent years has been that it has such shaky foundations in microeconomics .
7 For example , one of the most influential developments in macroeconomics in recent years has been the rise of the new classical school — an extreme form of laissez-faire monetarism .
8 Perhaps their most important contribution for Sussex birds in recent years has been the vast increase in the provision of food at bird-tables and feeding stations .
9 But the fall in world oil prices in recent years has squeezed revenues and made the inefficiencies of these coddled monopolies painfully obvious .
10 One of the most exciting developments in recent years has been the degree of convergence between models of visual function built up by computer scientists trying to figure out how to build machines that can see and physiologists trying to work out what different parts of the visual system do .
11 The phenomenal success of computer games in recent years has seen them become the most popular pastime of hundreds of thousands of children .
12 The advance in algicides in recent years has been considerable .
13 One of the most provocative findings in recent years has been the degree of parallel organization hidden within individual anatomical regions .
14 While the net inflow into foreign exchange deposits in recent years has been fairly modest , the dinar value of the stock has risen enormously .
15 The increased use of credit cards in recent years has reduced both the transactions and precautionary demands .
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