Example sentences of "years [vb -s] been [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think that the revolution in history which has taken place over the course of the last twenty-five years has been a revolution which has been fuelled by people 's curiosity to study things which previously had not been studied , rather than just to take some formal statement of what seemed to be important , which is what the chroniclers took , or some propaganda statement , which is what the Tudors took and what the seventeenth century historians took , or indeed to write very academic history , which is what professional historians have tended to do , over the course of the last erm forty or fifty years . |
| 2 | Russia 's most wretched political problem over the past two years has been a failure to separate the powers of president and parliament . |
| 3 | Taking over as she did at very short notice when our last Treasurer became ill , she has always managed to administer the Society 's finances in an extremely capable way despite the fact that the last six years has been a period of considerable change and economic difficulty . |
| 4 | Arnold Denney , of Trumpet Terrace , Cleator , who has worked on the production line for 42 years as either a machine knotter or twister and for a number of years has been a foreman . |
| 5 | One of the trends in military publishing over recent years has been a move away from the hardware itself towards its operational use and the personal experiences of the men in the front line . |
| 6 | One of the most interesting developments in dry gardening in recent years has been an increase in the use of gravel . |
| 7 | An exciting development in the women 's movement over the last few years has been an attempt by feminists to organise together around housing issues and to develop a feminist analysis of how the organisation of housing in Britain specifically affects women . |
| 8 | One of the extraordinary features of British economic management over the past fifty years has been the inability of those in charge to comprehend the workings of ‘ lags ’ : the time it takes for the effect of a change in policy to work through the economy . |
| 9 | A growing feature of the employment contract over the years has been the provision of occupational pension schemes for retirement and sickness . |
| 10 | Afternoon visit to Lake Bogoria which in recent years has been the home of the lesser flamingo . |
| 11 | Rhetorically , the central organising theme of the debates on the inner city in Britain over the last three years has been the problem of exporting the successes of the rest of the nation to this extraordinary conceptual space . |
| 12 | The major challenge which has faced the Teacher Placement Service over the two years has been the issue of teacher release . |
| 13 | The reason for the popularity of the de-clawing operation in recent years has been the concern of ( usually wealthy ) owners for their soft furnishings . |
| 14 | One of the greatest successes of the postwar years has been the containment of aggressive totalitarianism in Europe . |
| 15 | For example , one of the most influential developments in macroeconomics in recent years has been the rise of the new classical school — an extreme form of laissez-faire monetarism . |
| 16 | A major improvement in recent years has been the inclusion in such reports of analysis and interpretation of the data ( see , for instance , Cook and Dacre 1985 ) . |
| 17 | One of the most significant developments in English church life during the past fifteen years has been the mushrooming of home groups . |
| 18 | Part of the Trust 's work in recent years has been the compilation of surveys of vernacular buildings and landscapes . |
| 19 | ‘ What has predominantly improved race relations in this country over the last 25 years has been the firm , fair immigration controls we have sustained throughout that period . |
| 20 | By far the most popular location in recent years has been the Netherlands , for the very good reason that it has for some time offered by far the best deal . |
| 21 | One of the most exciting developments in biology over the past few years has been the identification of the specific genes that allow some viruses to cause cancer . |
| 22 | One of the most exciting developments in recent years has been the degree of convergence between models of visual function built up by computer scientists trying to figure out how to build machines that can see and physiologists trying to work out what different parts of the visual system do . |
| 23 | One of the most provocative findings in recent years has been the degree of parallel organization hidden within individual anatomical regions . |
| 24 | A feature of recent years has been the degree to which the differing agencies — HMI , the DES , Further Education Unit , and NBHS ( now renamed Skill : National Bureau for Students with Disabilities ) have worked together . |
| 25 | One of the dominant social characteristics of Britain over the past fifty years has been the degree of upward social mobility of those whose parents held traditional working-class jobs . |
| 26 | The most feverish area of research in snowboarding for the past few years has been the quest for an improved binding system — in particular a releasable binding that works . |
| 27 | An important new factor which has upset many people 's sums over the past couple of years has been the state of the property market . |
| 28 | Subsequently Hare ( 1966 ) suggested that the outstanding change in climatology in the post-1945 years has been the shift away from parameters such as temperature and relative humidity and towards the measurement of fluxes . |
| 29 | One of the most significant changes in the national economy over the last thirty years has been the shift in employment from the manufacturing sector to the service sector and the associated growth in female employment . |
| 30 | An ominous dimension in recent years has been the use of public order legislation as a means with which to repress the expression of sexual preferences . |