Example sentences of "[prep] recent [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Despite recent efforts to strengthen it , modernization theory has few academic supporters today . |
2 | It was badly scarred by the ill-fated attempt to acquire Leyland Vehicles and Land Rover , and only in recent times has it begun to reverse its image in Britain as little more than a screwdriver assembler of cars . |
3 | Changes in the Pakistan Penal Code introduced in recent years make it a criminal offence for Ahmadis to profess , practice and propagate their faith . |
4 | Only in recent years has it been straightened . |
5 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |