Example sentences of "increase in recent year " in BNC.
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1 | The number of part-time women workers has continued to increase in recent years despite the recession , growing steadily from 2.8 million in 1971 to 4.2 million in 1984 . |
2 | Backbench protests and revolts have , however , tended to increase in recent years , reflecting the changing background of MPs , and growing divisions of opinion over policy issues within parties ( see Norton , 1985 , pp. 23–81 ) . |
3 | Geothermal activities have so increased in recent years that these baths are now closed ; they are too hot , too dangerous . |
4 | The provision of evening courses had increased in recent years particularly in the family farming areas . |
5 | Certainly the number of patents and papers concerning natural antiulcer products and derivatives has increased in recent years . |
6 | These shortfalls have increased in recent years due to cultivators avoiding cash crops altogether which attract poor prices , bureaucratic and policy-making bungling , and to a general neglect of the building up of physical and institutional infrastructure to aid farming . |
7 | Like most other things , the cost of rebuilding and repairs has greatly increased in recent years . |
8 | If women are convicted of crimes in greater numbers ( and , as mentioned , female convictions have increased in recent years ) , it will be interesting to see how the police and the courts react . |
9 | The number occurring has apparently increased in recent years . |
10 | Although the number recorded has greatly increased in recent years , no real change in status may have occurred . |
11 | The demand for graduates in the disciplines of Business and Management has dramatically increased in recent years . |
12 | Sales of this typical high-fibre food have hugely increased in recent years . |
13 | Although the number of prosecutions and level of fines has increased in recent years , there were only 61 convictions in 1989 . |
14 | Moreover , its significance has increased in recent years relative to the role of natural increase . |
15 | This is partly because of the difficulty in deciding where boundaries should be drawn , a difficulty which has increased in recent years with the development of new organizational forms ( such as ‘ hived-off ’ agencies ) and with the increasing interpenetration of the public and private sectors . |
16 | whether the awareness and usage among new firm founders of government measures to assist small firms have increased in recent years . |
17 | The incidence of claims has increased in recent years . |
18 | The place has actually increased in recent years . |
19 | There is some evidence that the incidence of radiation bowel disease has increased in recent years as a result of changes in long established techniques . |
20 | In large scale industry ( such as the Automotive Industry ) the use of cordless tools has been steadily increasing in recent years so it is by no means novel technology . |