Example sentences of "years have seen a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The past 30 years has seen a continuation of the break-up of the old landlord and tenant system . |
| 2 | Since the lifting of sanctions the last couple of years has seen a flood of wines onto our shelves from the Cape — which has some of the most beautiful winelands in the world . |
| 3 | The past two or three years has seen a boom in the retreat movement , especially directed retreats . |
| 4 | THE past couple of years has seen an explosion in the number of computing books on the shelves of even the most humble book shop . |
| 5 | The past 10 years has seen an explosion in our knowledge of the molecular biology of cancer , and nowhere has this been as exciting as in the field of large bowel cancer . |
| 6 | The war years had seen a boom in cocoa prices : in 1938 cocoa earned £5½ million for 300 000 long tons ; by 1948 , because of disease , production had fallen to 200 000 tons but earnings had increased to £41 million . |
| 7 | Recent years have seen a revival of popular faith in America among Britons and Germans . |
| 8 | The past 10 years have seen a revival in interest . |
| 9 | But instead , recent years have seen a resurgence and the spotlight is once again on vaccination . |
| 10 | It says that recent years have seen a transformation in Britain 's manufacturing base , and it condemns those who do not recognise it and continue to run down the achievements of British industry . |
| 11 | This has already happened in microelectronics and the last few years have seen a revolution in this respect . |
| 12 | Recent years have seen a succession of second-rate political memoirs illuminated by the self-serving clarity of hindsight , stashed with dutiful acknowledgements to dreary constituency agents , padded out with hack accounts of official visits to one foreign country or another . |
| 13 | The last two years have seen a growth in awareness of many environmental issues , but none so obvious as the campaign to reduce harmful vehicle emissions , in particular lead . |
| 14 | Recent years have seen a multiplication in the number of TV channels and of communications media other than traditional terrestrial television — government pressure on broadcasters is perforce less effective than when there was only one channel . |
| 15 | Recent years have seen a move away from regimented package holidays as travellers start to assert their independence . |
| 16 | The past few years have seen a hardening of presidential arteries . |
| 17 | It is not perhaps since Romanticism that there has been so much discussion , and underlying uncertainty , about the market of literature , and it is no accident that recent years have seen an expansion of the sociology of literature as an academic discipline , alongside increased research into reading habits , the best-seller and how to write it , and the levels of writing that appeal to different strata of the public . |
| 18 | Studies of rape in England and Wales suggest that two-thirds of rapes take place in the home of the victim or the offender , and that only one-third involve strangers ; that two-fifths of victims suffer physical violence as well as rape , and one-sixth suffer additional sexual indignities ; that recent years have seen an increase in the reporting of rapes between acquaintances , and that rapes are increasing a little in their intrinsic seriousness ( i.e. in terms of the violence used , other sexual acts , etc ) , but that the most significant rise has been in the average length of sentences imposed on rapists by the courts . |
| 19 | Against the background of growing concern about migration pressures worldwide , recent years have seen an increase in cases where migrant , expatriate or alien communities have been obliged to leave en masse the countries in which they work or have settled . |
| 20 | The payment of most cathedral organists is also low , although recent years have seen an improvement . |