Example sentences of "in [adj] years has [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Imperial Cancer Research Fund , which in 10 years has opened 464 shops , has its own ‘ fashion guru ’ . |
| 2 | A BURGLARY victim whose home has been raided 14 times in three years has screwed her TV to the floor . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is consulted regularly by the Conference of Bishops , and in recent years has made great strides in making the women 's voice heard , and enabling women to play their part in the collaboration at all levels in the Church . |
| 5 | While British surfing in recent years has developed into Day-Glo sporting fantasy , into pipeline boasts in city pubs , and into Newquay , Newquay , Newquay — booming as the ‘ surf capital ’ of Britain — these boys have looked to carve a different route . |
| 6 | Television coverage of homosexuality in recent years has increased considerably as a result of AIDS and , more recently , Clause 28 . |
| 7 | Indeed , in recent years has done rather well out of its visits to Brussels by both politicians and officers . |
| 8 | The development of retirement counselling in recent years has arisen from the significant numbers of retiring people who soon encounter severe personal problems . |
| 9 | We make camp for the night in earshot of Crystal Rapid , which in recent years has flipped more boats , taken more lives , and humbled more boatmen than any other on the river . |
| 10 | ‘ Measurement by modern electric instruments developed in recent years has revealed that man and all life forms are ordered and controlled by electro-dynamic fields which can be measured and mapped with precision . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Most of the work done in recent years has impinged only on specialists . |
| 13 | A substantial body of educational research in recent years has sought to identify those qualities or practices that make an ‘ effective ’ school . |
| 14 | The growth of the DUP in recent years has seen that proportion fall . |
| 15 | In terms of formal policy , a shift in recent years has seen equity ostensibly yield place to efficacy . |
| 16 | The phenomenal success of computer games in recent years has seen them become the most popular pastime of hundreds of thousands of children . |
| 17 | Detailed work in recent years has given us new insights into how nineteenth-century towns developed . |
| 18 | Indeed , the single most important social change to have occurred in the countryside in recent years has concerned the changing social and occupational composition of its population . |
| 19 | However , the growing number of students with instrumental proficiency in recent years has meant an increasing concentration on orchestral work . |
| 20 | I refer not only to the fact that the match started with two wides , courtesy of Chris Lewis ; not only to the strange sight of an opening bowler in odd socks ( Neil Mallender black left sock , white right sock ) ; not only to the fact that England had no player with three initials for the first time since the third Test against New Zealand in 1990 , the selectors having left out Salisbury and having sent get-well-soon messages to DeFreitas , Tufnell and Fraser ; not only to the fact that Mallender joined the huge list of Test opening bowlers with a double ‘ I ’ in their name ( a list that in recent years has included Dilley , Allott , Small , Williams and Ellison : expect Millns to add his name to the pile soon . |
| 21 | Yet bitter rivals Wales , whose international form in recent years has left them near owners of the wooden spoon , are coining it . |
| 22 | Corinne Mercardier , photographer , draughtswoman and sculptress , who in recent years has concentrated on landscape , continues her explorations in scenes from her everyday life . |
| 23 | Perhaps the most satisfactory music in recent years has come from writers involved in the liturgy of a particular community , effectively as composers-in-residence , Among those in Britain writing for the Roman Catholic Church may be mentioned Stephen Dean , Philip Duffy , Bernadette Farrell , Paul Inwood , Alan Rees , Bill Tamblyn and Christopher Walker . |
| 24 | The only really significant inroad into the dominance of English in recent years has come from Spanish in the southern states of the US . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As regards France and West Germany , two countries with below-average union densities , the two leading trade union confederations in France ( particularly the CGT ) have strong reservations about collective bargaining , although its development in recent years has improved the status and authority of the unions because of the tangible results obtained . |
| 27 | The sharp increase in unemployment in recent years has drawn attention to the question of how labour markets work . |
| 28 | The increased use of credit cards in recent years has reduced both the transactions and precautionary demands . |
| 29 | High inflation in recent years has shown that a good pension often becomes a desirable part of employment . |
| 30 | The sudden explosion of video and television throughout the Pacific in recent years has prompted the churches to give high priority to media awareness training programmes , as well as developing video production skills . |