Example sentences of "of [noun] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , we have made a lot of progress in recent years , and as I shall describe , there are some grounds for cautious optimism that we may see a complete theory within the lifetime of some of those reading these pages . |
| 2 | Changes in the level of support in future years will only be made to take account of inflation or changes in the size and composition of the total population within each local authority area . |
| 3 | And of course in recent years there has been yet another pressure to move away from Brian Way 's methods . |
| 4 | I am aware that the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues have promoted all sorts of proposals in recent years , and many of them have been contradictory . |
| 5 | You can learn about rackets and strings and save yourself a lot of money in future years as well as developing a new skill which will help your confidence . |
| 6 | There has been a lot of this kind of partnership in recent years and there is no doubt that there is some mutual benefit but the benefits are unrelated for each party — the college gets a resource that it can use , the donor a warm sense of public spirit , a tax deduction or some publicity . |
| 7 | The auction houses were very successful in getting a lot of pictures in recent years , but there were a series of auctions with a very high buy-in rate , and pictures were getting publicly burned . |
| 8 | Table 8.1 gives a picture of the relative importance of these different sources of revenue in alternate years of the period 1979–87 . |
| 9 | THERE have been a number of books in recent years relating the sciences to philosophical , ethical and spiritual attitudes , and expressing an essentially holistic approach to all knowledge . |
| 10 | We also reviewed such evidence as has been submitted to us about the possible relation between the number of executions in particular years and the incidence of murder in succeeding years . |
| 11 | Robert Waller of Harris , owned by the American Gannett newspaper group , said political polls account for just 3 p.c. of turnover in non-election years , rising to 10 p.c. in the election year of 1987 . |
| 12 | At Warwick University ( England ) , doctors Steve Van Toller and George Dodd have been carrying out a great deal of research in recent years into the relationship between smell and emotion . |
| 13 | There has been a lot of talk in recent years about Formula One now being safe , but I think that is dangerous talk . |
| 14 | PATERNAL AGE — denotes the age of father at birth of child in completed years . |
| 15 | The spread of the Cetti 's warbler across the south of England in recent years is well documented . |
| 16 | This journal was founded in 1965 by the geological societies of Edinburgh and Glasgow , each of which had published their own series of Transactions in previous years . |
| 17 | This journal was founded in 1965 by the geological societies of Edinburgh and Glasgow , each of which had published their own series of Transactions in previous years . |
| 18 | Television coverage of homosexuality in recent years has increased considerably as a result of AIDS and , more recently , Clause 28 . |
| 19 | Although much attention has focused on the number of people out of work in recent years , less attention has been given to the number of family members who are also affected . |
| 20 | In mid-Cornwall , for example , over a third of the male population has been out of work in recent years . |
| 21 | The four short-listed artists are Grenville Davey , Damien Hirst , David Tremlett and Alison Wilding , each of whom has produced an impressive body of work in recent years and is beginning to enjoy international recognition , but none of whom will be familiar to a wider audience . |
| 22 | The location of cemeteries alone near the boundaries might be easily explained , but the accumulating evidence from excavated settlements strongly suggests that many had an adjacent cemetery ( Figure 2.8 ) and the excavation of a number of cemeteries in recent years has indicated the presence of a nearby settlement up to 0.5 km away . |
| 23 | There has , however , been a change of climate in recent years which has been a result of the pressures for accountability spelt out in Chapter 1 . |
| 24 | One of the most powerful forms of inquiry in recent years has been to look at Renaissance writing produced outside the cultural elite , bringing attention to texts marginalised and ignored by the institutional processes which maintains the traditional canon . |
| 25 | A second view that a scientific theory is a complex structure of some kind is one that has received a great deal of attention in recent years . |
| 26 | However , since much published work combines various approaches , there will be a good deal of overlap between different parts of the discussion and it will be necessary throughout to refer to various theoretical and methodological issues which have received a good deal of attention in recent years . |
| 27 | First , there has been a growing number of prosecutions in recent years for injuries resulting from organized matches of Association and Rugby football . |
| 28 | Readers must be warned that it has been the practice of governments in recent years to alter the departmental structure from time to time , ostensibly in an effort to find the best possible framework for policy co-ordination , but — it may be suggested — with less elevated political motives in mind too . |
| 29 | These figures suggest that there was also some degree of undervaluation of exports and imports in terms of dinars in previous years , although the amount may well have varied with the rate of depreciation of the dinar . |
| 30 | This is the most active expression of citizenship in recent years outwith government . |