Example sentences of "in [adj] years [coord] [ex0] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CAR crime on Merseyside has dropped for the first time in three years but there is still one offence every 20 minutes . |
| 2 | Complaints to the BR watchdog have now doubled in five years and there 's little hope of things improving . |
| 3 | Generally , however , discipline has not been a problem between them in recent years and there have been some pulsating contests . |
| 4 | THE Law and its administration have seen changes in recent years and there are more to come . |
| 5 | There has been a lot of this kind of partnership in recent years and there is no doubt that there is some mutual benefit but the benefits are unrelated for each party — the college gets a resource that it can use , the donor a warm sense of public spirit , a tax deduction or some publicity . |
| 6 | We have published reviews of a fair number of headphones in recent years and there is ample evidence that this uniquely personal and involving method of listening to music remains very popular . |
| 7 | The very idea of the ‘ comprador bourgeoisie , ’ central to the dependency approach , appears to have fallen into disuse in recent years and there have been various attempts to reconceptualize what it refers to . |
| 8 | Perhaps those advising Mr Lamont consider the objective has been achieved by the high drilling success rates in recent years and there are enough oil and gas finds to sustain development work for the immediate future . |