Example sentences of "years have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martell 's studies of the behaviour of radon decay products show that someone who smokes 20 cigarettes per day for 40 years has received a cumulative dose of about 100 rads at tissue sites in the lungs — a dose powerful enough to spark cancer . |
| 2 | A recognition of the need to maintain that sector and through it the full diversity of recorded music in Britain is one reason why the last few years has seen a new interest in the record industry from public bodies concerned with culture and with employment . |
| 3 | Though the last twenty years has seen a major step forward in our understanding of the Scottish Reformation and of Scottish society in the sixteenth century , there is still an extraordinary gulf between the personality and the reign of Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 4 | The last twenty years has seen a major effort , theoretical and observational to understand the evolution of animal societies . |
| 5 | The past 10 years has seen a dramatic improvement in Italy 's wine technology led by the latest generation of gifted wine-makers . |
| 6 | The past eight years has seen a steady and clever manipulation of the so-called thinking minority : the wheezes and schemes of cheeky pop entrepreneurs like Morley and McLaren have been championed in the rock press and elsewhere as a perfect parallel to the upwardly mobile mentality of the calculator and computer generation , the complete full circle from sixties hippiedom . |
| 7 | Sport & Recreation is a very small part of a huge leisure industry which over the last 20 years has seen a massive increase in both the provision of Local Authority facilities and in participation levels . |
| 8 | For interest shejoined the Southwark ordination course to study Theology and for some years has written a regular Bible commentary for her Parish Magazine . |
| 9 | But even Mr Papandreou , who in recent years has survived a brutal scandal , major heart surgery and a demanding new marriage , is now looking pretty frail . |
| 10 | The economic restructuring of recent years has had a traumatic effect on the estates , with massive job loss and factory closure transforming them into increasingly isolated , state-managed ‘ subsistence communities ’ . |
| 11 | Although based in Cardiff , the Welsh National Opera tours extensively , and for the last twelve years has had a regular season in London too . |
| 12 | This has forced us to look afresh at the regular London days and , with the prompting of a number of the most regular attenders , we have decided to drop the June day , which in recent years has had a low attendance . |
| 13 | A shift in the financial management of football over the last ten years has brought a new and more aggressive generation of directors to the forefront of the game . |
| 14 | The standard of play over the past few years has shown a considerable step-up and the cream of the local talent now face a daunting challenge in their bid to reclaim the title for ‘ home ’ keeping . |
| 15 | The rampant sexism of the climbing and walking fraternity over the last 50 years has left a whole generation of older women with the legacy of being expected to have the white-bearded , old sod 's tea ready for him on the table when he comes home from a fabulous day out on the hills . |
| 16 | New Year 's Eve in those early years had possessed a dull religious sheen , a pewter glimmer , which by much effort and polishing and dedication of the will could bring her a little light , a little hope , a little perseverance : but she had longed for the flames and the candles , the cut glass and the singing . |
| 17 | If everybody who bought a foreign car in the last ten years had bought a British one instead , there would n't be seventeen per cent unemployment in this area . ’ |
| 18 | The past ten years have witnessed a tremendous growth in the number and variety of transport services provided by the transport sector . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | But recent years have witnessed a remarkable example of their ability to adapt to change . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Recent years have witnessed a growing social mobility . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | These past few years have seen a sharp decline in morality . |
| 28 | Recent years have seen a developing concern with individualism and the resulting difficulties surrounding working class political organisation . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | However , the last few years have seen a major closure programme of deep mines in Wales as elsewhere . |