Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] in recent years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such arguments perhaps illustrate the extent of the fall from grace to positivist criminology in recent years . |
| 2 | If there was a drawback to this grand strategy , it is that some of the gramophone recordings in recent years have lacked the startling intensity and insights of the theatre performances they have helped to prepare . |
| 3 | The Secretary of State has presided over the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the defence industry in recent years . |
| 4 | At Sotheby 's the following evening , a dim sale was rescued by a package of twenty-one works of art consigned by advertising agent Charles Saatchi , who has been a regular trader through the auction houses in recent years . |
| 5 | ‘ Pickles have been out of step with consumers ’ changing eating patterns in recent years , ’ says Hind . |
| 6 | EGG HATCHERIES will be monitored for salmonella , following a decision yesterday to tighten controls on the bacterium which has caused a rising tide of food poisoning cases in recent years . |
| 7 | Although there has been a substantial move away from the building of three or more bedroom houses in recent years , they still accounted for 60 per cent of the total housing stock in 1986 compared with nearly three-quarters a decade earlier ( Housing and Construction Statistics 1976–1986 , Table 6.8 , 1987 ) . |
| 8 | Jean Packman concludes by showing that new policy embodied in future legislation owes something to child care research studies in recent years . |
| 9 | ‘ The Government has done much to improve the ambulance service in recent years in striving to achieve the medical term the ‘ golden hour ’ for getting casualties to hospital . |
| 10 | The economic theory of job search has grown into an important aspect of labour economics in recent years . |
| 11 | On the one hand there have been reports suggesting that the vaccine can cause brain damage , albeit in a tiny minority of children and , on the other , the whooping cough epidemics in recent years have re-awakened fears of the damage the disease itself can inflict . |
| 12 | Chosen by Ingo Walther and including less familiar material and important works of art which have appeared in the auction rooms in recent years , they are mostly presented in good colour reproductions which reach a remarkable standard for the Cubist constructions and plaster assemblages . |
| 13 | Short term assets are held for investment opportunities , and the government 's privatisation programme , coupled with high interest rates on liquid assets may explain the increased popularity of cash and other short term assets in recent years . |
| 14 | Bobby Watson and Victor Lewis have been at the centre of the remarkable revival of hard bop on the world jazz stage in recent years . |
| 15 | A very useful development in insulin therapy in recent years has been the fixed-dose mixture of insulin , either 30 per cent short-acting and 70 per cent intermediate-acting ( Mixtard ) or equal parts of the two insulins ( Initard ) . |
| 16 | A Code of Practice for Project Management has been published and proved to be one of the most successful Institute publications in recent years . |
| 17 | It is arguable that the friction between locals and newcomers which has been a common feature of village life in recent years is only a temporary problem brought about by the dislocation of established social patterns which have been hard for the social life of the village to digest , and that once the newly arrived population has either taken over entirely or ‘ settled down ’ to a rural existence many of the initial problems will be reconciled . |
| 18 | The distribution of tertiary activity is uneven within rural areas , especially with the increasing centralization of public sector employment in recent years . |
| 19 | Averaging delay statistics over the same four equal time periods used in Chapter 2 , Table 3 , provides clear evidence for a reduction in publication delays in recent years . |
| 20 | Averaging delay statistics over the same four equal time periods used in Chapter 2 , Table 3 , provides clear evidence for a reduction in publication delays in recent years . |
| 21 | While the net inflow into foreign exchange deposits in recent years has been fairly modest , the dinar value of the stock has risen enormously . |
| 22 | The growing co-operation between tax authorities in recent years , made easier by a web of international treaties , hardly suggests the arm 's length system is breaking down . |
| 23 | One of the most remarkable aspects of population change in recent years has been the growth and redistribution of the labour force . |
| 24 | But Mr Sherwood said the company was heading back to profit after hundreds of job losses in recent years . |
| 25 | The " F " Plan Diet , originated in the UK by Audrey Eyton , is one of the most successful diet books in recent years . |
| 26 | Wilkinson Sword hopes Protector will enable it to wrest back the technological advantage in the razor market which it is widely thought to have lost to brand leader Gillette in recent years . |
| 27 | The development of retirement counselling in recent years has arisen from the significant numbers of retiring people who soon encounter severe personal problems . |
| 28 | In what could be the most crucial casting decision of his career , Stone settled on Val Kilmer to take on the most sought-after male lead role in recent years . |
| 29 | If I may hark back to the answer that I gave to the right hon. Member for Morley and Leeds , South ( Mr. Rees ) , one of the areas on which there has been a significant concentration by the Government and the security forces in recent years is the financial resources available to terrorists — I hasten to say on both sides of the community . |
| 30 | In this respect camp , as Andrew Ross observes , anticipated many of the recent debates of sexual politics : ‘ in fact , camp could be seen as a much earlier , highly coded way of addressing those questions about sexual difference which have engaged non-essentialist feminists in recent years ’ ( No Respect , 161 ) . |