Example sentences of "year have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The past ten years have witnessed a tremendous growth in the number and variety of transport services provided by the transport sector . |
| 2 | We described its development at length in the first edition of this book and the past three years have witnessed a slow but steady increase in provision . |
| 3 | In general , therefore , the past three or four years have witnessed a considerable and commendable increase in the provision of teacher-training opportunities for further education teachers . |
| 4 | Yet , as we shall see , the last few years have witnessed a remarkable upsurge in research in those areas where quantification is possible , such as strike activity and its determinants ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 5 | But recent years have witnessed a remarkable example of their ability to adapt to change . |
| 6 | Other public sector bodies have adopted a similar approach , although recent years have witnessed a growing tendency , particularly in the nationalized industries , for an increasing proportion of capital expenditure to be financed out of current expenditure . |
| 7 | Recent years have witnessed a growing social mobility . |
| 8 | In the Bellsdyke unit , the last four years have seen a successful and busy day hospital open in a former town centre house , a community health centre ( providing continuing care as well as acute and day hospital ) , warden supervised flats , supported housing projects and addiction outreach teams established . |
| 9 | The last few years have seen a tremendous amount of' reconstruction , both internally and externally , some parts of the building having been perilously close to collapse . |
| 10 | These past few years have seen a sharp decline in morality . |
| 11 | Recent years have seen a developing concern with individualism and the resulting difficulties surrounding working class political organisation . |
| 12 | Recent years have seen a good deal of change and instability in energy markets and the aim of the study is to investigate how these have influenced , or have been influenced by , the form of contractual behaviour in the markets . |
| 13 | However , the last few years have seen a major closure programme of deep mines in Wales as elsewhere . |
| 14 | Recent years have seen a great expansion in the number of librarians working in educational institutions and specializing in educational librarianship ; in Britain this was a later development than in the USA , but none the less the libraries of almost all colleges of education , further education and technology are now run by chartered librarians , and some five hundred or more librarians are also found in secondary schools . |
| 15 | Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in research and publications on post-war British history . |
| 16 | The last seven years have seen a considerable expansion of the museum 's activities but have been coloured by the drama and eventual scandal surrounding the controversial restoration by Daniel Goldreyer of one of the museum 's principal paintings , Barnet Newman 's monumental ‘ Who 's afraid of red yellow and blue III ’ which had been vandalised in 1986 ( see p.15 ) . |
| 17 | The past ten years have seen a considerable increase in laboratory facilities . |
| 18 | This is undoubtedly the main reason why the last twenty years have seen a steady increase in controls over the mass media , either by government takeover or by censorship and suppression . |
| 19 | Recent years have seen a growing awareness that most of these assumptions about rape are myths . |
| 20 | It may not be too extreme to suggest that the last few years have seen a quiet revolution in the direction taken by our thinking about writing development and the teaching of writing in schools . |
| 21 | The seeds of the last two years have endured a difficult winter , a very cold and wet spring , but the shoots are strong . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm a great fan and over the years have accumulated a vast knowledge on the subject . |
| 23 | These key demographic developments of the past 20–30 years have had a major impact on regional and local populations in the UK . |
| 24 | At the same time , the post-war years have provided a larger and more easily identified target for racial animosity in the new populations of Caribbean and Asian immigrants . |
| 25 | The municipal authorities of Barcelona , who over the past few years have acquired a great deal of experience and expertise in founding and running cultural centres , have recently signed an agreement with the Fundación Salvador Allende to collaborate in setting up a museum in Santiago , Chile , to be called the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende . |
| 26 | The changes of recent years have brought a small but measurable increase in the size of the audience , now at just under half a million listeners , in spite of its transmission being confined to AM at an off-peak time . |
| 27 | The post-1945 years have produced a fundamental restructuring of the pattern of economic activity on a scale never achieved by the prewar industrialization . |
| 28 | Two consecutive wins and the signing of the year have lifted a great weight from the place . |
| 29 | The Euro-events organised by the school so far this year have included a French-only ‘ immersion ’ weekend and a school referendum on Maastricht as well as an interview with Euro MP John Hume . |
| 30 | The numbers recorded each year have shown a large increase , from an average of about nine to 12 per year between 1947 and 1967 to one of about 45 per year between 1968 and 1976 . |