Example sentences of "in recent years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have in recent years edited a self-help journal for people with AIDS , written for the national press and researched a variety of medical material for television . |
| 2 | I have in recent years edited a self-help journal for people with AIDS , written for the national press and researched a variety of medical material for television . |
| 3 | The report describes how in recent years hundreds of political activists or suspected activists , including prisoners of conscience , have been subjected to arbitrary arrest and torture and sentenced after unfair trials . |
| 4 | In particular in recent years , the Government 's response to large numbers of people fleeing from state oppression is to impose visas on nationals of that country . |
| 5 | Catalogues of major shows have also become bigger and more expensive in recent years , usually through the help of national , industrial or commercial sponsorship . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In recent years the amateur actor has had more opportunity for classes in theatre work , including voice and movement training as well as performance and directing skills . |
| 8 | In recent years , photographs of newcomers to the profession have been put together in a volume expressly produced for that purpose , by Spotlight . |
| 9 | The re-establishment of the Irish language as the first official language of the state became the national policy of the Irish government under de Valera and has only toned down in recent years . |
| 10 | In recent years serious damage to the historic interiors of pubs has resulted from the creation of the open-plan which now seem to be pubs ' standard internal layout . |
| 11 | The Festival 's come of age of late and I am more than happy that my sax playing has been the soundtrack for the Festival 's cinema trailer in recent years . |
| 12 | In recent years , the Forum has also introduced to the British Film and Television Industry the concept of the Film Commission . |
| 13 | In recent years , a lot of work has gone into improving the quality of care that patients receive from the health service . |
| 14 | WPC Dick 's salutary essay ( 1985 ) changed little and generated few ripples on the ACPO pond , while one of the most powerfully critical books on policing in recent years ( Jones 1980 ) seems to have had little effect on the structures of the organization , except , perhaps , to help draw its author — then a chief inspector — into the ACPO ranks . |
| 15 | Pam emerged from a strong field headed by twenty-fifth ranked Sabine Appelmans from Belgium and two of the world 's most successful juniors in recent years , Maggie Maleeva and Cristina Tessi . |
| 16 | Rises in fuel prices have been relatively stable in recent years , although this restraint may be ending , with the possible introduction of a ‘ carbon tax ’ on fossil fuels to combat global pollution , and the running down of the cheapest supplies of natural gas . |
| 17 | In recent years , attention has increasingly focussed on the needs of these carers , who may very much want to care but who may need practical help and advice as well as emotional support . |
| 18 | 7.2.1 At present , general practitioners are free to refer to the hospital and consultant of their choice , although in practice this freedom has been restricted in recent years , partly because of health authorities ' reluctance to accept cross-boundary patients . |
| 19 | West Yorkshire , having presided over a massive expansion of rail traffic in recent years , is pushing for more electrification in the wake of the successful completion of InterCity 's electrification to Leeds . |
| 20 | In 1984–5 the sector returned a loss of £157million ; in one of the most dramatic business turnrounds in recent years this has become a £24million profit in 1988–9 . |
| 21 | The growth of BR stations in recent years is heartwarming for pro-rail supporters and the figures speak for themselves , 1986 = 2,526 , 1987 = 2,530 , 1988 = 2,554 , 1989 = 2,561 . |
| 22 | In recent years some brewers have started to use a cask breather , a simple demand valve connected to a cask and a CO2 cylinder which maintains the gas pressure inside the cask as the beer is drawn off . |
| 23 | The story enshrined the belief that has developed in recent years that people who place bolts are villains who have no place on British soil . |
| 24 | In recent years the situation has become confused , because there are now exterior wood stains available , which differ from a true dye or stain , as they leave a coloured film on the surface of the wood and do not require another finish to be applied over them . |
| 25 | Normal fluorescent tubes are familiar enough , but the main development in recent years has been in compact fluorescent lamps , which take the place of normal light bulbs . |
| 26 | Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information . |
| 27 | In the face of this central problem , the valuable work that has gone on in recent years in narratology , and other aspects of fictional form , is curiously difficult to apply in practice . |
| 28 | Mr Noel Stock , who speaks as one who had Pound 's confidence in recent years and was in daily contact with him , explains that this passage derives from a hint thrown out by Jessie L. Weston in her from Ritual to Romance , to the effect that the charges of heresy brought against the Templars were not wholly unfounded , since some of the practices of the Eleusinian mystery-cults from the pagan Near East survived in the heart of Christendom in the rituals of the Templars , a survival to be traced in literature in the stories and poems about the quest of the holy grail . |
| 29 | Certainly in recent years Pound 's interest in mystery-cults has been more than antiquarian ; in ‘ was Erigena ours ? ’ he asks whether the philosopher Scotus Erigena was one of the Eleusinian brotherhood , and ‘ ours ’ can be given full weight — Noel Stock goes so far as to claim ( op. cit. p.22 ) that some of the obscurity of these later Cantos is deliberate and arcane — ‘ he writes about them as an initiate in words that are both ‘ published and not published ’ … ’ . |
| 30 | The château of Chalais has been a stronghold of the Talleyrands from that day to this , and when Pound in recent years read about Napoleon 's grand chamberlain , notably in the memoirs of Madame de Rémusat ( a principal source for Canto 101 ) , this new association with Chalais re-activated his memories of that place , which accordingly is named afresh , bringing ‘ Aubeterre ’ with it , but in a quite different tone and spirit from ‘ to set here the roads of France ’ . |