Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | The plaintiff , wishing to have monies now and not in two years ' time , prudently accepted the settlement figure . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Imagination has been associated especially with the arts , and thus in recent years has been increasingly downgraded . |
5 | Because of the projected increase in the numbers aged 85 and over , ti has been estimated that by 2000 , it will cost the NHS an additional £400 million a year , and more in later years ( Britain in 2010 , The PSI Report , 1991 ) . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | ‘ I think the vicar 's status has changed since Victorian times but not in recent years . |
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 | It was a phrase with many shades of meaning , but essentially in these years it came to refer to that freedom from lay intervention in ecclesiastical appointments and operations which it was Hugh 's special mission to promote . |