Example sentences of "over recent years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over recent years both the Association and the RAF Benevolent Fund have experienced an increase in welfare casework and this is also reflected by the other ex-Service charities . |
| 2 | Over recent years both the Association and the RAF Benevolent Fund have experienced an increase in welfare casework and this is also reflected by the other ex-Service charities . |
| 3 | The 1983 British Election Survey also found a change over recent years in favour of ‘ liberal ’ social policies . |
| 4 | He began by saying that with the UK vehicle division 's track record over recent years , he could n't really expect to receive any support to the plan he was about to describe . |
| 5 | This includes an account of the organization of services and a critical evaluation of initiatives resulting from the growing dissatisfaction with residential care over recent years . |
| 6 | Other academic studies have agreed that Westminster has increased its capacity for scrutiny and influence on policy over recent years , not decreased it . |
| 7 | Although not quoted as a reference over recent years , the Henley Standard continued its reporting of the Club 's fixtures and competitions , as it had from the beginning . |
| 8 | The overall conclusion is that while there is no shortage of regular comment and coverage of mental handicap in the mass media , there have been few attempts over recent years to explore the subject in any depth , and those that have , have focussed on the sensational and the controversial . |
| 9 | Over recent years there has been increasing interest in these widely distributed and biologically important compounds , and their importance in platelet biochemistry and platelet-vessel wall interactions has been emphasised . |
| 10 | However , over recent years the possible role of platelets in the early stages of the atheromatous process has been emphasised ( Ross & Glomset , 1976 ) . |
| 11 | Over recent years , there have been various developments in health care planning with the aim of better meeting the needs of particular populations . |
| 12 | Accountability — many of the changes in the NHS over recent years have had an implicit , if not explicit , goal of strengthening the notion of line management . |
| 13 | The rise in local politics over recent years is not just the passive outcome of national forces working themselves out at the local level . |
| 14 | Much of the £1 million spent annually on hovercraft research and development over recent years is also directly applicable to the AP1-88 . |
| 15 | One area of child development that the child psychiatrists appeared to have made passably tidy , has been somewhat roughed up by ethological methods over recent years . |
| 16 | He reviewed warnings and advice issued to the public over recent years and concluded with a plea for interdisciplinary research on food . |
| 17 | ‘ Over recent years I have combined my knowledge and skills into the area of fine hand painted furniture , ’ she explained . |
| 18 | Over recent years , the parish has been of great interest archaeologically and excavations have revealed signs of occupation from neolithic man to the Middle Ages . |
| 19 | Over recent years the Tourist Office has re-vamped certain traditional festivals so they appeal more to both tourists and locals . |
| 20 | All the problems that we have been wrestling with over recent years in attempting to formulate a set of principles for communicative language teaching suddenly vanish as if at the waving of a wand . |
| 21 | The shift over recent years to the data-based study of actually occurring language , as distinct from a reliance on the linguist 's intuition as a representative user , has yielded new information about English — for example , new facts about frequency of usage and about the use of language in the achievement of meaning in context . |
| 22 | Generally speaking , it has been assimilation rather than accommodation which has characterized interpretation in the domain of language pedagogy over recent years . |
| 23 | Over recent years there has been a growing realization that the development of communicative competence is crucially a methodological matter , but we also need a rationale in support of such a shift of focus . |
| 24 | Over recent years schoolteachers and others concerned with the teaching of languages have ‘ puzzled their brains ’ about the role of grammar in language learning , and some maintain that students can manage without it . |
| 25 | Given the number of mergers that have happened over recent years , it 's becoming a rare event when a firm can celebrate its centenary with the same name it started out with . |
| 26 | Managing director of finance Ian Duncan writes that ‘ anticipating the introduction of the new US accounting standard FAS 106 , we have made provision over recent years to cover the aggregate liability calculated using the accrual method and have decided to amend the balance sheet classification so that it is shown separately under ‘ provisions for liabilities and charges ’ in the notes to the accounts ' . |
| 27 | Over recent years , acrylic paints and synthetic brushes have been developed . |
| 28 | Over recent years , the unprecedented success and growth of Vekaplast in the U.K. and our programme of continuous commitment to innovation and re-investment has culminated in the construction of a prestigious extension to our premises . |
| 29 | Over recent years considerable concern has been expressed over the introduction of new diseases caused by bacteria and viruses in particular . |
| 30 | There has been a trend over recent years for professionals to advise mothers not to toilet train their children early . |