Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the National Parks , all land use surveys have shown how their landscapes have been much altered in recent years by the advance of agriculture and forestry ( Leonard , 1980 ) although as Table 8.2 shows , both National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONBs ) still contain very few urban areas ( Anderson , 1980 ) . |
| 2 | As elsewhere , the gaol I visited appointed ‘ convict overseers ’ to assist the staff , a system much criticized in recent years . |
| 3 | In Italy , for instance , a unique aspect of the trade union movement has been its formal close ties to various political parties ( although somewhat weakened in recent years ) whereby there were as many union confederations as political persuasions . |
| 4 | Key words have been much used in recent years in the retrieval of information . |
| 5 | The success was based on good utilisation of staff and equipment , particularly during periods that have been seasonally affected in previous years . |
| 6 | Two instances where relationships have greatly deteriorated in recent years concern Huddersfield Polytechnic , as we have already noted , and the Polytechnic of Central London ( PCL ) . |
| 7 | Yet this is becoming increasingly difficult as the numbers of new council houses being built have been greatly reduced in recent years , while many have been sold off by Conservative councils . |
| 8 | Here in the UK , we have to clean up the image of our Rottweilers , which has been so tarnished in recent years . |
| 9 | The desire to understand the development of early Anglo-Saxon society as a specific contribution to the more general study of past human behaviour has only emerged in recent years . |
| 10 | Like most other things , the cost of rebuilding and repairs has greatly increased in recent years . |
| 11 | Although the number recorded has greatly increased in recent years , no real change in status may have occurred . |
| 12 | Geothermal activities have so increased in recent years that these baths are now closed ; they are too hot , too dangerous . |
| 13 | The number occurring has apparently increased in recent years . |
| 14 | A 3-1 defeat at new table-toppers Norwich last night left Clough with the indignity of his worst-ever start in 18 years at Nottingham Forest . |
| 15 | I am now very much of the opinion that most evolution proceeds by sudden short steps or quanta as brilliantly expressed in recent years by Stephen Could . |
| 16 | The numbers of Elves had so declined in later years that many of the cities were half empty and many of the lands abandoned . |
| 17 | His first book , the collection of stories entitled Goodbye , Columbus , fixed him in the popular mind , from 1959 , as an ‘ enemy of the Jews ’ — a condition aggravated by the onanistic bravura and scandalous mad success of the grotesquely imaginative Portnoy 's Complaint ( 1969 ) , and not much improved in recent years by The Counterlife ( 1987 ) , in which various escapes from Jewish America , including an escape to Israel , are projected , and in which Zuckerman and his dentist brother Henry are both imagined to have ailing hearts and to undertake gruesome surgery in order to restore the sexual potency suspended by their medication . |
| 18 | In this environment official intervention in the foreign exchange markets has less chance of achieving even short-term success , with the result that floating has become less managed in recent years . |
| 19 | THE Mazda range , much changed in recent years , is to get a new flagship model . |
| 20 | The couple had lived at the bungalow since 1938 , but were rarely seen in later years . |
| 21 | First , it would undo the anti-inflationary credibility that they have painfully won in recent years , and which is the precise benefit offered by EMS membership . |
| 22 | Now you 're moving to Bilborough , you 're moving to Bilborough erm just say in five years time they got rid of the flats erm and they built houses on here on the site , would you move back ? |
| 23 | If not , if the public decides against it , if they are unmoved by it , then the Glass will be broken and people will stop talking about it , which could quite easily happen in twenty years or ten years , or even sooner . |
| 24 | Able to accommodate more than 2,000 people , the hall has , however , become largely deserted in recent years . |
| 25 | Skil , like several other traditional power tool manufacturers , has realised that the outdoor market has been largely untapped in recent years . |
| 26 | These are not necessarily new , but they are among the best published in recent years . |
| 27 | The research should contribute both to psychological knowledge , by identifying the structure and content of teenagers ' knowledge of road use and how this knowledge changes as a function of experience ; to the practical business of accident prevention , by identifying what kinds of interventions are most needed in pre-driving years and when these interventions are most likely to be effective . |
| 28 | As the entrance requirements for universities , colleges and the professions have become more demanding in recent years , so increasing numbers have stayed on for a Sixth Year to study for Certificate of Sixth Year Studies examinations , to take ‘ crash ’ courses or modules in new subjects or to upgrade their existing results . |
| 29 | This subsector is recognized as another growing one and it has been further differentiated in recent years by the recognition of a specifically educational , volume travel market . |
| 30 | Many centrally determined policies are implemented via the managers of housing ; therefore it has become more accepted in recent years to adopt a managerialist stance in analysing access to housing . |