Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | An understandable concern in view of the bad publicity given to some builders in recent years . |
| 2 | Kitty says she got involved in amateur home porn video-making through swinging , the Seventies open-marriage ‘ lifestyle movement ’ that seems to have regained popularity among some suburbanites in recent years . |
| 3 | RYDAL toured Zimbabwe and , following some problems in recent years , feel , despite defeat in all five matches , that they have laid the foundations for a more successful season . |
| 4 | In the university and polytechnic sectors the traditional library guide has undergone some changes in recent years . |
| 5 | Mr Fallon was told some forces in previous years have not been able to take up the extra posts , which have then been redistributed to other places . |
| 6 | The measure allows such companies in those years to apply their mineral depletion allowances to 50% of the value of the finished products rather than to the lower value of raw clay alone . |
| 7 | The truth of the matter was expressed by the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills ( Mr. Shepherd ) , who has spoken so well on such questions in recent years and protested each time the Government resorted to fresh guillotine motions . |
| 8 | The British film industry has churned out many such tales in recent years . |
| 9 | ‘ The pits are so dramatic , and there 's so many of them , that we feel someone would have noticed if the whales had been there in such numbers in previous years . ’ |
| 10 | Until recently there was even a payroll tax , called the Selective Employment Tax , which , like many such measures in recent years , had the opposite effect to that desired : It drew workers from the productive manufacturing industries into the supporting service industries , from engineering to the Post Office , for instance . |
| 11 | The drug in question , Prednisilone , has led to 3 previous such deaths in 10 years . |
| 12 | The drug in question prednisolone has led to three such deaths in ten years . |
| 13 | Table 9.1 gives some indication of the size and importance for the UK of these changes in recent years , notwithstanding the particular consequences of North Sea oil investment . |
| 14 | An accomplished pianist , she also had great histrionic gifts , but had little time to pursue these interests in later years . |
| 15 | Some observers also calculate that , if one takes account of the profits forgone from these enterprises in future years and sets them against the revenues raised now , the government may have sold the assets at too low a price . |
| 16 | Their evidence for this judgement , as with those presented in most of their surveys , was loosely stated and difficult to verify , but the argument has been echoed many times in recent years in Britain by academics and policy-makers alike . |
| 17 | ‘ We have tried many times in recent years to land Catholic players but failed — largely because the players themselves were worried about adverse reaction in their own neighbourhood . |
| 18 | ‘ They have suffered so many times in recent years and some think disappointment is staring them in the face again . |
| 19 | ‘ I have had too many setbacks in recent years . |
| 20 | People will not give up lightly what they have gained under this Government , and they will not easily embrace a creed that has been rejected by so many nations in recent years . |
| 21 | HOME ownership increased by a fifth and average prices trebled between 1979 and now but the story has turned sour for many homebuyers in recent years as mortgage arrears and repossessions soared . |
| 22 | Many new ideas have come from the Marketing Departments of all Banks in recent years . |
| 23 | He started in rousing style : ‘ Education in England and Wales has suffered many catastrophes in recent years but none so great as the new GCSE examination . |
| 24 | In doing so it can go a long way towards lifting the depression which has afflicted too many teachers in recent years . |
| 25 | Of course , each village does contain its own unique qualities , but to dwell on these only serves to obscure the nature of the changes which have overtaken them , since a concern for the minutiae of each individual village leads us to lose sight of the widespread changes that have affected almost all villages in recent years . |
| 26 | All pupils in these years follow a general familiarisation course in computer applications timetabled for one period each week . |
| 27 | Many linguists in recent years have questioned the early assumptions of the discipline with regard to literacy and their work now serves to undermine rather than to support those arguments regarding literacy that I have referred to as the ‘ autonomous ’ model . |
| 28 | People have been struggling to explore and clarify those patterns in recent years . |
| 29 | As Rothschild says : ‘ In effect , Rákosi killed more communists in five years than Horthy had in twenty-five , and the entire society was cowed into a condition of bewilderment and terror . ’ |
| 30 | Further published evidence and public pressure have provoked more changes in recent years , in particular through the establishment of the Review Body on Civil Justice . |