Example sentences of "expansion in recent years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although banking remains important , the most profitable area for expansion in recent years has been manufacturing . |
| 2 | Cuzco station , the junction for the Santa Ana railways , used by large numbers of tourists to reach the great Incan site of Machu Picchu , was a modest two-storey tin-roofed structure with one platform until the pressure of visitors led to its expansion in recent years . |
| 3 | Massive prison population expansion in recent years is by no means unique to the United States , but it would be difficult to find other examples where during the 1980s the annual rate of growth exceeded 11 per cent . |
| 4 | Another feature of building society expansion in recent years has been the increasing concentration of the industry through merger activity . |
| 5 | But travel agent Lunn Poly substantially increased profitability following major expansion in recent years . |
| 6 | The system has been born out of rapid expansion in recent years as the business has opened new centres and employed more people . |