Example sentences of "year [vb base] see the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recent years have seen the continuation of such rescue work with a much better publication standard , and there have been two major projects at Mucking , Essex and Spong Hill , Norfolk . |
| 2 | Unprovoked by media hysteria , the last two years have seen the issue of values emerge in the staffroom . |
| 3 | The past few years have seen the development of continuing education programmes for trained staff . |
| 4 | However , recent years have seen the development of the extended role of such services . |
| 5 | The last few years have seen the age of the fitness fanatics — those who rush headlong to join in the latest craze whether it is jogging , aerobics or weight training . |
| 6 | The last 15 years have seen the emergence of a new sector of the housing market : the conversion of large , older houses into flats for sale for owner occupation . |
| 7 | The past four years have seen the introduction of CD-ROM technology , desktop publishing and , this year , desktop presentation and office publishing . |
| 8 | Recent years have seen the establishment of ‘ enterprise zones ’ , Urban Development Corporations and a range of similar organizations , operating at local level but bypassing inner-city councils . |
| 9 | The last five years have seen the DUP establish itself as the voice of about half of the unionist population . |
| 10 | Recent years have seen the site developed as a trading estate , now housing a number of firms . |
| 11 | The last ten years have seen the beginnings of a trend away from the study of objects for their own sake , stimulated partly by the discovery and excavation of settlement sites which have encouraged the formulation of a new range of questions ; the nature of and change in human societies have replaced the barren side of the artefacts . |
| 12 | The reader should be aware , however , that recent years have seen the enactment of a number of important statutory forms of liability in particular areas of exceptional risk which go a long way towards avoiding the likelihood of protracted litigation inherent in the ill-defined nature of the rules of strict liability at common law . |
| 13 | The intervening years have seen the chip gradually replacing the cathode ray to provide us with the most pervasive and persuasive form of global mass communication . |
| 14 | In the same vein , the Bullock Committee in 1977 noted that the ‘ last 20 years have seen the growth of the giant industrial enterprise and the concentration of economic power in the hands of fewer and fewer such companies . |