Example sentences of "have [verb] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite its importance and grade II* listing , the treatment it has received in recent years has been disgraceful , and it is to be hoped a great many lessons will have been learnt about how to deal with irresponsible owners of such important listed buildings . |
| 2 | It would seem that the restoration profession has not been able to keep its nerve in the face of the rapidly growing attention it has received in recent years , and is reacting in an undisciplined way . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Its reputation as the most beautiful bay on the west coast of Scotland has developed in recent years , not fostered by press and media publicity but by the enthusiastic recommendations of those who have been there . |
| 5 | Before we have had the opportunity to vote on that policy , the autumn statement has informed us that the Government will not promote training or fill the training gap that has developed in recent years . |
| 6 | In this programme we are going to look at the way in which British music has developed in recent years and its relationship to that produced by Continental Europe . |
| 7 | About £1 million has been raised for charity by the display and reproduction of the watercolours which the Prince of Wales has painted in recent years but the exhibition which opens to the public today is his first one-man show in Scotland . |
| 8 | In particular , TV buying has come in recent years to be regarded as something of a separate skill — arguably to the detriment of the media operations of agencies as a whole . |
| 9 | Pressure for the conversion or redevelopment of historic houses and estates in financial difficulties has grown in recent years and is causing concern to those wishing to preserve the traditional countryside . |
| 10 | I want to suggest that there are three areas in which our understanding of writing has grown in recent years . |
| 11 | The number of students successfully changing fields has risen in recent years and now stands at 30 per cent of the intake . |
| 12 | It has suffered in recent years from heavy traffic which the new by — pass will alleviate , but the old market town which I remember from forty-odd years ago is fast becoming yet a multiple retailers ' outlet . |
| 13 | The retired docker 's health has suffered in recent years and he has trouble getting up the stairs at their maisonette . |
| 14 | The retired docker 's health has suffered in recent years and he has trouble getting up the stairs at their maisonette . |
| 15 | Interest in this field has expanded in recent years , along with interest in speech recognition and optical character recognition ( OCR ) , especially with the advances in technology . |
| 16 | ‘ Rothman 's has expanded in recent years despite a ban on cigarette advertising on television , at the cinema and on hoardings outside school gates . ’ |
| 17 | This growth has accelerated in recent years , much of it taking place in the 1970s and it has been concentrated more in the higher levels of the education system . |
| 18 | We found that in areas of Southern Norway and Sweden , and areas of Scotland where there are hard granite rocks and thin soils , that many of the lakes and streams have shown er a progressive acidification since the industrial revolution , and that this has accelerated in recent years , until about ten years ago , when er the emissions of So2 from the U K , particularly fell , about , between about nineteen seventy and er today of about thirty or fell forty per cent drop . |
| 19 | At the same time , the concept of the unitary individual subject , on which he relies , should come under fire — as it has done in recent years , under the influence of post-structuralist thought . |
| 20 | These substantial resources will enable the executive to continue the progress that it has made in recent years in improving housing conditions in Northern Ireland . |
| 21 | A noticeable change in the nature of protest has occurred in recent years . |
| 22 | Add to this the rapid growth in the numbers of expeditions , climbers and trekkers which has occurred in recent years and it is not surprising that the problem has reached massive proportions despite the availability of new access sites from Tibet which was opened to climbers in 1980 . |
| 23 | A marked change in status has occurred in recent years and is now a regular winter visitor , although as recently as 1953 it was rarer than Whooper Swan . |
| 24 | A considerable decline has occurred in recent years . |
| 25 | Logging has intensified in recent years , mainly due to massive Japanese investment in woodchip production , which has grown from virtually nil in 1985 to 1.7 million tonnes in 1989 . |
| 26 | The pattern of change has lead in recent years to the growth of large book retailing groups , some with a ready will to diversify into other product ranges . |
| 27 | But one that has surfaced in recent years is ginseng , the root of the araliaceous plant , Panax ginseng . |
| 28 | The size of the remand population in British prisons has rocketed in recent years . |
| 29 | THE number of mature students at both universities in Liverpool has rocketed in recent years . |
| 30 | Attractive as that proposition has seemed in recent years , the form in which it has been pursued is fraught with difficulties . |