Example sentences of "[conj] in recent years [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It is a Yorkshire dale in a classic sense with sweeping contours and a fierce beauty on the grand scale , although in recent years it has been placed in County Durham ( not that locals pay any attention to such cultural vandalism ) .
2 It is not surprising that in recent years they have served interchangeably in the hands of various theorists as models of each other .
3 He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain .
4 And in recent years they 've played a growing role in encouraging the public to recycle their rubbish .
5 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 . ’
6 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 .
7 Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 But in recent years he has spent £50,000 of his own money and much time on charitable causes .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 But in recent years it has lost its fury .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Like many a similar building it had declined in status but in recent years it has been handsomely restored to its former glory .
18 Of the domestic borrowers , local authorities issued , in the years between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s , a large volume of stocks ( over five years to maturity ) and negotiable bonds ( from one to four years to maturity ) ; but in recent years it has been government policy to centralise most public-sector borrowing and as a result public issues by local authorities have all but ceased .
19 This standard was developed with commercial accounts in mind and it confirms the view that depreciation is a matter of allocation , not of valuation ; though in recent years it has become acceptable to allocate revalued amounts .
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