Example sentences of "[coord] in [adj] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in recent years they 've played a growing role in encouraging the public to recycle their rubbish . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Although appointed to represent a cross-section of British life — one each from Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland ; at least one academic ; one trade unionist ( almost always from the right-wing of the movement ) ; one with an interest in the arts ; usually a scientist ; a retired diplomat to represent the Foreign Office ; and in recent years one representative from the ethnic minorities — they have their amateurism in common . |
| 4 | Many fashions such as the kipper tie and the string tie have come and gone , and in recent years there has been an upsurge in the popularity of vivid colours and flamboyant designs . |
| 5 | Ciba-Geigy runs company management courses and in recent years there has been a steady increase in the number of women in these courses . |
| 6 | The choice of channels utilised by a producer is determined ultimately by the customer , and in recent years there has been a trend towards shorter channels , as customers , especially in consumer markets , realise that there are price advantages to be gained when middlemen , or retailers , are by-passed in the chain of distribution . |
| 7 | And in recent years it is impossible not to see that Dale Thomas ' name occurs more than others , including being five times the Club Champion — winning on one occasion after a 60-hole match ! |
| 8 | I 've worked with children in various settings , mainly in secondary school , and in recent years I 've worked with students , so when I try to make that sort of categorization I find it very difficult . |
| 9 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
| 10 | In 1873 , Edward Dannreuther talked on the music of the future ( meaning Wagner 's ) and Sidney Colvin on taste and artistic judgement ; and in succeeding years there were always some Discourses essentially on the arts-a word which by this time had come to mean literature , music , painting and sculpture rather than crafts and techniques . |
| 11 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 12 | As Cynthia says : ‘ We found Dave entertaining children at Chessington World of Adventures , and in 25 years I had never met anyone who got on more naturally with children . ’ |
| 13 | A former schoolteacher and the wife of a Magee College lecturer , she was of pronounced left-wing sympathies and in later years she became Bernadette Devlin 's secretary in London . |
| 14 | Here John learned to appreciate the material things in life and in later years he allowed journalists to make the mistake of attributing John George 's wealth and position to him at this time . |
| 15 | No more than nine have been recorded in one winter , however , and in some years none is seen . |
| 16 | There may be little rain for ten months of the year — and in some years there may be no rain at all . |
| 17 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But in recent years his plays have been more about the paradoxical nature of dissidence itself : the emotional turbulence of the authority given the individual as a public spokesman , and about the fact that one of the worst features of any totalitarian system is the need to conform to other people 's expectations . |
| 21 | In the main it causes few problems , but in recent years there has been a rise in cases that cause conflict for the advice worker . |
| 22 | The police is still seen as the first line of defence , but in recent years there has been increased co-operation between the police and the military , as in the joint exercises conducted at Heathrow in preparation for possible terrorist incidents . |
| 23 | But in recent years he has spent £50,000 of his own money and much time on charitable causes . |
| 24 | Glass-fibre remains an inexpensive and effective reinforcement material , but in recent years it has been upstaged by Kevlar and carbon fibre , two stronger but more costly materials that owe their high profile largely to their use in formula racing cars . |
| 25 | The company at one time had a significant tie to the defence industry , but in recent years it has focused on what it knows best — speciality chemicals . |
| 26 | But in recent years it has lost its fury . |
| 27 | It was traditionally associated with Persia and the southern Caucasus , but in recent years it has been incorporated into the repertoire of weaving groups in other rug-making countries . |
| 28 | This is less true of public sector services than of the private sector , but in recent years it is in the latter that growth in employment has been concentrated . |
| 29 | Much of the Forestry Commission 's early planting was certainly crude and insensitive , but in recent years it has become more attentive to its landscaping responsibilities ( not least because the Forestry Commission has found that there is money to be made out of tourism if it does so ) and now employs landscape consultants to advise on its planting policies . |
| 30 | Often they still are , but in recent years it has become common for other senior academics to act as heads of departments , sometimes in rotation . |