Example sentences of "in recent [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will lead me to take seriously some of those attributes of professional work which have perhaps been dismissed too lightly in recent work as mere political rhetoric . |
| 2 | The notion of self-discipline or autonomy has been a central one in recent work on professionalisation . |
| 3 | The recognition of these misunderstandings , and of the amount of dead wood that has to be cleared away before a reliable account of cognitive operations and differences can be provided , is also apparent in recent work by sociolinguists . |
| 4 | The research centres on women and children , groups relatively neglected in recent work on health inequalities , whose experience of social and economic change differs from that of men . |
| 5 | The salience of the concept in recent work in pragmatics is due to a number of sources . |
| 6 | The numbers recorded annually vary widely , ranging from under 100 to nearly 3,000 in recent springs . |
| 7 | Numbers vary but a total of 40 is the highest recorded in recent springs ; parties of up to 10 together are sometimes seen . |
| 8 | While a broad historical trend was noted towards the limitation of the once near-absolute rights of parents over children by state agencies , with the declared objective of protecting the child 's interests and welfare , it seemed that in recent policies a number of different themes could be identified , involving potentially conflicting values and assumptions about children , parents , the state and the rights and roles of different parties in the child care situation . |
| 9 | This stands in marked contrast to the emphasis on parental responsibility in recent child-care law developments , although it must be acknowledged that in extending parental rights in education the government has been keen to stress the duty of parents to involve themselves in their child 's schooling in various ( often ‘ consumerist ’ ) ways . |
| 10 | Beginnings , middles and ends have become still more problematic , even suspect , in recent fiction . |
| 11 | Fundamentalist religious groups have increased their power in Ulster in recent decades , especially the free presbyterians . |
| 12 | It is less easy , but more interesting , to try to understand why ancient radical doubts about the ability or language to express a genuine extra-linguistic reality have been revived in recent decades to the point where they seem to have achieved an almost popular appeal . |
| 13 | But universities have changed immensely in recent decades , and because of their close , complex and sometimes difficult relations with the public world , their procedures have become standardized and uniform , reflecting concern about justification and accountability . |
| 14 | There can be little doubt for instance that the doubtfulness or downright hostility felt towards Eliot by some Americans , particularly in recent decades , derives from the sort of American Eliot was — and remained , long after he had taken British citizenship . |
| 15 | The hope that a new Church of the poor has given to the impoverished masses of this region is the most significant political development in the region in recent decades . |
| 16 | I HAD particular reasons for enjoying an article in the Sunday Times last weekend which suggested that only on three occasions in recent decades has satire actually had a real impact on our political life . |
| 17 | Injury statistics and trends show that after substantial reductions in recent decades , employees fatalities appear to be levelling off at about 1.6 per 100 000 employees and that the reported major injury rate for employees has been stable over the last three years . |
| 18 | But in industrial countries in particular — or in countries that abut industrial countries — the rain has been growing steadily more acidic in recent decades , to the point where it has already done severe damage to ancient buildings and statues , where it is has virtually destroyed vast numbers of trees in continental Europe ( notably Germany ) and killed most of the life , including the fish and crayfish , in many of the lakes and rivers of Scandinavia . |
| 19 | As the work of a man who is not only a poet but a Catholic poet , Paradiso is hardly a typical case , but the sheer volume of fiction produced in Spanish America in recent decades — and continues to be produced — scarcely betokens a general collapse of confidence in the written word , and it is noteworthy that Cabrera Infante 's Three Trapped Tigers , for example , re-creates the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Havana even as it casts doubt on the feasibility of such an enterprise . |
| 20 | In conclusion , the vitality of Spanish-American fiction in recent decades indicates that , despite an ironic awareness of the limitations of literature , writers have retained the ambition and confidence to tackle major themes . |
| 21 | In recent decades , the Severn has been steadily undercutting the riverside churchyard at Newnham . |
| 22 | Lynne Segal 's previous Virago book Is the Future Female ? was a spirited discussion of the nature and function of ‘ femininities ’ , especially in recent decades ; published in 1987 , at the most politically depressing period of Thatcherism when the socialist-feminist vision seemed a distant memory or hopeless pipedream , Segal defended her optimism about women 's astonishing progress since the 1960s , and about the fracturing of gender identities which she saw as irreversible . |
| 23 | It is a thrifty , hardy breed which matures very rapidly and has become much heavier in recent decades ( average weight of bulls about 1,200kg ) , and it is now one of France 's two major beef breeds with well-muscled hindquarters and an excellent ratio of lean meat to bone . |
| 24 | In recent decades , these three regions have been the focus of political , economic and military interventions by the great powers . |
| 25 | It is not surprising that political activity by working-class city dwellers has declined sharply in recent decades . |
| 26 | The major demographic change occurring in recent decades within the cities has been a decline in absolute population levels ( Redfern , 1982 ; Champion , Coombes and Openshaw , 1983 ) . |
| 27 | In recent decades communities in the United States and Europe have been confronted by the realisation that lead can severely retard the mental development of their children . |
| 28 | The accelerating property boom is likely , before long , to create a new downtown in the area around Potsdamer Platz and Leipziger Platz — once Berlin 's busiest traffic junction and in recent decades its ugliest wound , a grey no man 's land between two barrier walls . |
| 29 | I have been trying to draw attention away from the great cities , which were quite uncharacteristic of the scene in our centuries , and to focus on the small or middling sort ; and here we meet the doctrine so brilliantly established in recent decades by Philip Jones : that the Italian cities were essentially market towns in origin , in which nobles and knights and farmers and peasants had a common interest ; very often the knights lived as much in the towns as in their country fortresses or castles . |
| 30 | The Government will have mapped out its legislative programme for the session in the Queen 's Speech at the opening of the session and will give first priority to the commitments there undertaken and to any important urgent Bill ( as has happened in recent decades in the cases of Rhodesia and Northern Ireland ) . |